What Getting Caught Lying Brings

Getting caught publishing a fake photograph has some repercussions. For example, people are starting to go back and take hard looks at other photographs from Reuters in general and from Adnan Hajj in particular.

And questions are starting to come up, very quickly.

That's not to say the pictures are faked - just that people are starting to wonder. (Vanderleun does not see them as necessarily faked. To my eye, and I worked as a photographer for quite some time, though not in the news field, they look staged, not candid). The problem here is that once Reuters got caught - openly - faking shots, their credibility is in serious trouble. That lack of faith in Reuters' trustworthiness will translate directly into decreased sales of their product. That being their only reason for existence, that is not at all a good thing.