The picture was discovered to have been substantially altered.
When the paper was called out on this by Indymedia.org in the UK, the Editorial Manager of the Evening Standard forwarded this denial:
"Our front-page picture of an exultant crowd in Baghdad celebrating the fall of Saddam's regime was a video grab taken from BBC News 24. As is customary practice on all newspapers, the TV station's small logos were removed and a replicated part of the background inserted. The Memory Hole website alleges that the Evening Standard intended to deceive readers by inflating the size of the crowd. Wrong. It also claims we put together two different still-frames. Wrong again. It says a man with sunglasses and white open shirt appears twice in different poses. Not true. Multiple still-frames were not used and at no time was there any intention to deceive our readers and indeed our readers were not deceived. I hope this clarifies the matter for you.
Jeannette Arnold
EDITORIAL MANAGER"
Subsequently the "Evening Standard" published this admission and rationale:
"A number of readers have expressed concern that our front page picture on 9 April, showing Iraqis celebrating the liberation of Baghdad, had been enhanced to dipict a larger crowd than actually existed. As it was taken from TV footage, some extra people were added to the image in order to fill the space left by the removal of logos from the picture. In our opinion this did not alter the clarity of truth of the picture's message but we are happy to make this clear."
The Memory Hole offers a detailed examination of the image and the issue.
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