EXCLUSIVE! Must credit Blue Crab Boulevard! (Eat your heart out, Drudge). We here at Blue Crab Boulevard, tireless seekers of the truth that we are, have gotten our hands on the original, unaltered Reuters photograph of smoke rising in Beirut! This is the actual, unretouched source file before all the photoshop elements were added! Our superwhamadyne secret operative from Magic 8-Ball Photography and Wax Museum, LLC, managed to infiltrate the fortress of Reuters! He obtained this photo directly from a wastebasket just before the editors tried to burn the evidence. He is very brave, if not all that smart! Here's the photoshopped picture that Reuters tried to pass off to the world as real:
Now here's the unaltered original before all the photoshopping occurred:
Oh, sorry. That is actually a picture of the Reuters photo editor that our operative took while he was slinking around. Here's the actual photo as it appeared before the photoshop elements were added:
There you have it! Reuters, your source for bird cage liners!
Maybe this just went over my head, but the last image is just grey. Maybe that’s the joke, what?
Actually you can see the corrected one here
That is the joke.