POTUS Needs Permission For a Bathroom Break?
U.S. President George W. Bush writes a note to Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice during a Security Council meeting at the 2005 World Summit and 60th General Assembly of the United Nations in New York September 14, 2005. World leaders are exploring ways to revitalize the United Nations at a summit on Wednesday but their blueprint falls short of Secretary-General Kofi Annan's vision of freedom from want, persecution and war. REUTERS/Rick Wilking
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Secretary-General Kofi Annan's is a Criminal....
Comment by — 2005/09/17 @ 12:13 AM — (Reply)
Comment by — 2005/09/17 @ 02:25 AM — (Reply)
No, Reuters has already verified the authenticity of the photo.
And George Bush is a criminal, if there ever was one.
Comment by Shalana— 2005/09/17 @ 07:51 AM — (Reply)
No, Reuters came out yesterday and said that the picture had been doctored.
Comment by — 2005/09/17 @ 08:47 AM — (Reply)
No they did not. Reuters validated the photo.
Reuters Explains Photo Of Bush Bathroom Note
September 15, 2005
By Daryl Lang
Don't blame the photographer.
That's the message from Gary Hershorn, a picture editor for Reuters, about the photo yesterday that shows President George W. Bush writing an all-too-human note during a UN meeting.
Bush is shown writing: "I think I may need a bathroom break. Is this possible."
The photo, which quickly became fodder for blogs and e-mails among friends, was taken by Rick Wilking, a contract photographer based in Denver who recently covered the flooding in New Orleans.
Hershorn, Reuters' news editor for pictures for the Americas, says he's responsible for zooming in on the note and deciding to transmit the photo to Reuters clients. He says Wilking didn't know what the note said when he shot the picture.
"I'm so adamant that Rick has nothing to do with this. He was just the guy who pushed the button," Hershorn says.
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Comment by Shalana— 2005/09/17 @ 09:14 AM — (Reply)
I am not blaming the photographer, he didn't photoshop it his editor did. You can look at the photo and see that's it's doctored. They "may" have photoshopped exactly what it said...but then again they may not have. Given the fraud we have seen from the MSM in the past year in regards to Bush, what are we supposed to believe.
Comment by Elmers Brother— 2005/09/17 @ 01:26 PM — (Reply)
Here's the part you left our from Reuters
In response to the attention the photo is getting, Reuters' spokeswoman in London released a two-sentence statement about the picture: "The photographer and editors on this story were looking for other angles in their coverage of this event, something that went beyond the stock pictures of talking heads that these kind of forums usually offer. This picture certainly does that."
So how did the picture happen?
According to Hershorn, Wilking was one of several photographers covering the United Nations Security Council meeting between about 11 and noon yesterday. He was part of a pool stationed on a balcony that faced Bush's back; a group of White House photographers was on a balcony facing the president.
Wilking shot about 200 images and sent two memory cards to the press room at the U.N., where Hershorn was working. Hershorn looked at the images on a computer and initially decided not to send any of them.
But a few hours later, he started to wonder about a note that Bush was seen writing in three of the pictures. Out of curiosity, he zoomed in to see if he could read it.
Once he saw what it said, Hershorn decided the note was interesting and worth publishing. The white parts of the picture were overexposed, so a Reuters processor used Photoshop to burn down the note. This is a standard practice for news photos, Hershorn says, and the picture was not manipulated in any other way.
Around 4:30 p.m., Reuters transmitted two versions of the photo, including one that was tightly cropped around the note and Bush's hand.
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Comment by Elmers Brother— 2005/09/17 @ 01:34 PM — (Reply)