Fired Reuters Reporter Wants Job Back

Published on August 30, 2006 By Whacked Man In Humor

LONDON (Whacked Planet) - Adnan Hajj the former Reuters photographer who was fired after he was discovered altering images with Photoshop, has asked for his job back. Hajj now claims that he was a victim of a “Zionist conspiracy.” According to Hajj, none of his photographs were doctored or exaggerated in any way.

[On the left the altered image. The unaltered image on the right.]

Since being fired, employment opportunities have been few and far between for Hajj. Lately his freelance work has been limited to photographing for a McDonalds’ billboard hamburger ad and for a dieting product featuring a series of before and after photos.

“Even the National Enquirer won’t touch my work,” lamented Hajj while attaching a scope to what appeared to be a sniper rifle. “I’m ruined until Reuters casts off the yoke of Zionist imperialism and rehires me – or at least until Playboy Magazine returns my phone calls. Come on Hefner, what the hell are you waiting for?”

The termination of Hajj and the reluctant decision by Reuters to pull all of his photos from publication is further evidence to many that the mainstream media has been showing a bias against Israel in its coverage of the war against Hezbollah.

Global Picture Editor Tom Szlukovenyi (hereafter referred to as ‘Tom’) adamantly denied all accusations of bias against Israel and pointed to Reuters’ termination of Hajj as illustrative of his company’s objectivity towards events in the Middle East. “Any accusations of bias are simply more Zionist oppression and aggression towards the sons of Allah,” said Tom.

Asked whether Reuters would ever hire Hajj back, Tom emphatically shook his head ‘no.’ “Unfortunately, Hajj’s Photoshop skills were not up to Reuters standards,” said Tom.

This came as no surprise to Hajj who upon hearing the rejection ran off firing his rifle into the air while screaming hysterically, “Death to Zion, death to Photoshop! Death to Hugh He-e-e-fffner!!!!”

Comments

Whacked Man

on Aug 31, 2006

The whole thing with Katie Couric reminded me of this story a couple weeks ago. It makes you wonder what other alterations are out there? Is Oprah's head really that big?

Gideon MacLeish

on Sep 01, 2006

I know for a fact that first image was altered, whacked. The "face of Satan" appeared in the original. WWN told me so.

Dr Guy

on Sep 01, 2006

know for a fact that first image was altered, whacked. The "face of Satan" appeared in the original. WWN told me so.

Look again! I see the face of satan!

Whacked Man

on Sep 07, 2006

I see a taco stand.

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