***UPDATE - SCROLL FOR DETAILS**** I take back my call for Tyler Hicks's firing, as it appears that the same photo of the man in the rubble was used by NPR with a caption saying that the man had fallen and was hurt. But why did the Times use a caption indicating he the man was a "body"? The Times is definitely still under the gun here, but perhaps the personal blame lies more at the hands of the folks who got production credits on this little project, though I don't think Hicks is totally off the hook either.

Gateway Pundit has uncovered yet another Lebanon photo fakery scandal! Reuters and Adnan Hajj get a breather as NY Times photographer Tyler Hicks gets busted faking the news. (Don't worry, Gateway Pundit has the screen shots for when the Slimes tries to cover this up.)

In a NY Times photo essay (little slideshow with audio), we see 7 photos credited to Mr. Hicks. What's odd is that in photos 2, 3, and 4 we see a guy without a shirt on wearing shorts and a hat, but by the time we get to photo 6 the man has become a exceptionally clean corpse being dug out of rubble by one of his pals.

(See Gateway Pundit for full details. Be sure to check out our zombie friend's hat tuck between his arm and body in the corpse shot. I wonder if hicks directed him to do this, hoping it would fool us?)

There is absolutely NO INNOCENT EXPLANATION FOR THIS... unless you believe, like chickens running around with their heads cut off, he had the ability to run all over helping in the rescue and recovery efforts even though he was actually dead.

Prediction: *** (see update, Hicks may not be as guilty as it initially appeared)***At worst the NY Times will suspend Hicks, and make some empy promises about tightening photo editor policies. But that's crap. This can't even be a case of Hicks being fooled. If he's on the ground, he knows he took pictures of this man alive and he knows he took a picture of him without his hat on pretending to be dead. Hicks needs to be fired immediately! Beyond Hicks, production credits are given to Gabriel Dance, Lisa Iaboni, and Jonathan Morgan with a reporter credit to Steven Erlanger. I don't know how this works, so perhaps Erlanger wasn't part of this scandal, but the 3 with production credits are certainly guilty as well.

A question for the MSM: With all of your high paid editors and strict policies of scrutiinizing everything, why the hell does it take a bunch of bloggers to edit your photos after you've already used them to lie to the public!?

Congratulations to again to the blogosphere, and particularly Gateway Pundit this time.

Blue Crab Boulevard agrees that there is no way that this just slipped by an editor.

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***UPDATE***
Michelle Malkin dug this up at NPR:

Compare that caption with what the NY Times used:

The mayor of Tyre said that in the worst-hit areas, bodies were still buried under the rubble, and he appealed to the Israelis to allow government authorities time to pull them out.

So while I take back my call for Hicks's immediate firing because I can't say he is to blame for portraying the man as a "body" rather than someone who fell and got hurt, I am calling for serious accountability for whoever is responsible for this. How about those 3 who got production credits? Seems likely that they may be responsible for the caption. Perhaps Hicks innocently submitted the photos he took, while the folks who put this bit picked and chose what pictures to use to tell a particular story they had in mind. Regardless, the Times has some serious questions to answer