A fauxtography update - Powerline looks at the photos of the alleged Israeli strike on a Reuters news van.
And at LGF;
The International Committee of the Red Cross seems to have removed the high resolution image of ambulance 782 (supposedly struck by an Israeli missile) from their web site: Conflict in the Middle East: selection of photos.Is someone getting a little too close to the truth?
That someone is Zombietime.
Related discussion at Michelle Malkin.
Don't miss Mary Katharine Ham in Townhall, either;
The mainstream media’s response to the allegations from blogs has been more along the lines of Greg Mitchell’s, editor of Editor & Publisher, a trade magazine whose mission it is to cover “all aspects of the North American newspaper industry, including business, newsroom, advertising, circulation, marketing, technology, online and syndicates.”Mitchell’s response to accusations from bloggers—instead of answering the charges and refuting evidence—was to get very defensive, claim that “rightwing bloggers” were only attempting to smear photojournalists as a group, and then proceed to smear rightwing bloggers as a group for daring to point out the dishonesty of some photojournalists, and raise questions about how business is conducted in the Middle East.
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Instead of addressing concerns and refuting evidence, Mitchell calls bloggers a bunch of Grassy Knoll-ers intent on discrediting “the media as a whole.” This is not the way to win trust with your audience.
Mitchell then went on to discredit himself within the space of just a couple hours.
On Friday, the Confederate Yankee blog brought attention to a column Mitchell had written in 2003, in which he confessed to making up news as a young reporter. He had been sent out to do a story on Niagara Falls, and found himself unable to talk to tourists to get quotes. So, he sat on a bench and made the quotes up. He confessed his journalistic sin in the wake of the Jayson Blair scandal.
Many other blogs picked up on the 2003 column, suggesting that Mitchell might be sympathetic to faked news because he himself had been a faker.
Several hours after Confederate Yankee’s post went up, that blogger noticed the text of the 2003 article had been changed.
I picked up on this over the weekend at USS Neverdock....
It seems that Red Cross and Other NGOs abbetted by news media in the ME have been actively propagandizing for the Hezbolla thugs............
Good research and Un-doctored photos that substantiate the claims put a real perspective onthe behaviour of those supposedly nuetral observers.
It may be that the vehicles were hijacked by Hezbollah but that does not excuse efforts to hide those facts.
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There are a couple of problems with this. How many gullible people are there in the world? How many thoughtful people are there who will spend some time in critical analysis of what they're taking in?
Look at these as examples of the military wing of leftist parties learning from their political cousins; these are drive-by smearings. It doesn't matter if they're proven false by blogs or if they're someday, perhaps, recanted by the author themselves, the damage is done.
See the news today at USSNeverdock,blogspot,com
Now Hezbollah are building new Bunkers in the refugee camps.
How do they get away with it?
Reuters Photo (Mahmoud al-Jihad)
"Flat Fatima" takes time out from lamenting her frequently bombed apartment to lend moral support, and Green Helmet has arrived to make sure the scene is staged correctly."
Mickey is there too; and headless feminist; more.
'55 Dodge Charger (?) with New Joisy plates c/w whitewalls; NASCAR favourite.
A collage from Iowahawk. ...-
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1691886/posts
Mary Katherine Ham seems to be a new addition to townhall since its take over. I like her the more I read her. She certainly deserves a higher profile.
Journalists blame Israel for war coverage
[Dinosaur Media Death Agony]
YNet ^ | Aug. 29, 2006 | Yaakov Lappin
International journalists discuss Lebanon war coverage; NYT bureau chief: Israel 'not interested in Lebanese deaths'
A number of journalists claimed during a convention in Jerusalem Monday evening that Israel and the IDF were mostly to blame for the way the foreign media covered the Lebanon war.
The panel of journalists, largely from the international media, convened to discuss their coverage of the war, at a conference arranged by the Media Line agency's Mideast Press Club. ...-
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1692049/posts
David Frum has a long piece on some of the 'deception' going on.
He also asks whether Hezbollah handed out counterfeit money to citizens of Lebanon?
aei.org/publications/filter.all,pubID.24830/pub_detail.asp
"Perhaps you saw the images in your newspaper or on television:
"A Lebanese man counts U.S dollar bills received from Hizbollah members in a school in Bourj el-Barajneh, a southern suburb of Beirut, August 19, 2006. Hizbollah handed out bundles of cash on Friday to people whose homes were wrecked by Israeli bombing, consolidating the Iranian-backed group's support among Lebanon's Shiites and embarrassing the Beirut government.
... Only one thing was missing--the thin wire security strip that runs from top to bottom of a genuine US$100 bill. The money Hezbollah was passing was counterfeit, as should have been evident to anybody who studied the photographs with due care.
Care was due because of Hezbollah's history of counterfeiting: In June, 2004, the U.S. Department of the Treasury publicly cited Hezbollah as one of the planet's leading forgers of U.S. currency.
... The passing of counterfeit bills was detected not by the reporters and photographers on the spot, but by bloggers thousands of miles away: SnappedShots.com, MyPetJawa and Charles Johnson's Little Green Footballs.
These sites magnified photographs and showed them to currency experts and detected irregularity after irregularity in the bills. (Links to all the sites mentioned here can be found at frum.nationalreview.com)"
Infotainment Dramas that pretend to be 'serious' news organizations are getting what they deserve from bloggers.
It's not that the average person took these pompous stuff shirts all that seriously in the first place, but it's nice to see that they have to squirm a little now too - instead of only seeing their non-politically targets squirm during ambush interviews.
Infotainment Dramas that pretend to be 'serious' news organizations are getting what they deserve from bloggers.
It's not that the average person took these pompous stuff shirts all that seriously in the first place, but it's nice to see that they have to squirm a little now too - instead of only seeing their non-politically correct targets squirm during ambush interviews.
Well I feel I have to go back to how we did it in the old country.
Which country you ask? Just pick any one.
Anyway it involves an old wrinkled woman, gypsy or soothsayer type, and some dry goat bones strewn on a dirt floor. Plenty truthful enough. ESPECIALLY when compared to what we are served these days!!
Rosie too .... but having fun with it.
http://people.aol.com/people/article/0,26334,1519616,00.html?cid=recirc-top5-2-1519616