al-Reutergate - The Unluckiest Woman In Lebanon

Yawn. The Conservatives are nosediving, Harper is backtracking, and the Liberals - thanks to Kate and the rest of the Fifth Columnists - are a lead pipe cinch to win a majority in the next election. You can guarantee that the military rank-and-file (and more importantly, their wives) are furious re: Harper's treasonous and comtemptuous handling of Major Paeta Hess-von-Kruedener's death at the hands of the IDF. Rumours of Tories MPs ready to jump ship grow more believable by the day.

Since becoming Minister of Immigration Monte Solberg has welcomed 125,000 immigrants to Canada, mostly from countries that would make you cry. By the government's own admission CSIS lacks the resources to screen 90% of these immigrants. Blaming Reuters, Iran, or Muslims for whatever it is you bozos are whinging about conveniently avoids confronting what I believe to be the most serious threat facing Canada today. The honeymoon is over; it's time to hold Monte and the CPC accountable for flagrantly jeopardizing the security and liberty of the Canadian people.

Just more evidence that the MSM can't be trusted to honestly "report" news. We are being fed biased crap from people promoting their own agenda. Are there no regulations in place to protect us from these vultures?
Sad part is, it's not just cbc anymore. The media seems to want to control political parties, or elections anyway, and now have been proven to try to manipulate the minds of people just wanting to know.
I would now have to rate "reporters" under used car salesmen and politicians but still only "slightly" above real estate agents on the slime totem pole!
WHAT have we become??!

Hello Bob the Troll - can't you do any better than that?

boob isnt just a troll he is a terrorist supporting traitor that should swing from a rope like all his pals in the liberano party.

Reuters Staff Nomenklatura aka Pravda/Tass:

Global Picture Editor; Ass. Global Picture Editor ; Global Pictures Desk; non-staff contributing photographer; etc., and,

Beirut Bob said: (Yawn.) ...-

Reuters withdraws all photos by Lebanese freelance

Reuters ^ | 07 Aug 2006 | Reuters
LONDON, Aug 7 (Reuters) - Reuters withdrew all 920 photographs by a freelance Lebanese photographer from its database on Monday after an urgent review of his work showed he had altered two images from the conflict between Israel and the armed group Hizbollah. Global Picture Editor Tom Szlukovenyi called the measure precautionary but said the fact that two of the images by photographer Adnan Hajj had been manipulated undermined trust in his entire body of work. "There is no graver breach of Reuters standards for our photographers than the deliberate manipulation of an image," Szlukovenyi said in a statement. "Reuters ...-
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1679185/posts

OOPSY !!

Another non massacre to be added to Jenin, Qana and who knows what else.

And tall foreheads like Bob wonder why the Arab world is the intellectual, political and spiritual backwater of the entire world. They can't even lie well.

By SAM F. GHATTAS, Associated Press Writer 47 minutes ago

BEIRUT, Lebanon - The Lebanese prime minister said one person was killed in an Israeli air raid Monday in the southern border village of Houla, lowering the death toll from 40. Prime Minister Fuad Saniora said at a news conference that he had based the initial tally on unspecified information that he had received.
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He offered no other explanation for the error.

He had announced that 40 were killed in the attack during an emotional address during opening remarks at a meeting of Arab League foreign ministers.

"It turned out that one person was killed. They thought that the whole building smashed on the heads of about 40 people and it turned out, thank God because we are not happy if someone is killed, they have been saved," Saniora told reporters

Yawn. The Conservatives are nosediving.

A drop of a few points in the polls is hardly "nosediving". And the CPC is still ahead. But I can see how you might get excited, seeing as how your Party loves to govern by poll because they don't have the spine to make unpopular decisions that need to be made. Yawn indeed.

Harper is backtracking.

From what?

And the Liberals - thanks to Kate and the rest of the Fifth Columnists - are a lead pipe cinch to win a majority in the next election.

Just like you were supposed to win a majority the last time out? Keep dreaming, not one of your so-called "leadership" candidates will become PM.

You can guarantee that the military rank-and-file (and more importantly, their wives) are furious re: Harper's treasonous and comtemptuous handling of Major Paeta Hess-von-Kruedener's death at the hands of the IDF. Rumours of Tories MPs ready to jump ship grow more believable by the day.

Treason? Wow, that was a nice piece of moonbat wing-nuttery.

Since becoming Minister of Immigration Monte Solberg has welcomed 125,000 immigrants to Canada, mostly from countries that would make you cry. By the government's own admission CSIS lacks the resources to screen 90% of these immigrants.

You can thank the last 13 years of Liberal rule for that.

Blaming Reuters, Iran, or Muslims for whatever it is you bozos are whinging about conveniently avoids confronting what I believe to be the most serious threat facing Canada today.

And that is Islamic fundementalism. And who are THEY again? Christians? Buddhists? Just WHO are the vast majority of terrorists these days? Get your head out of your ass and wake up.

The honeymoon is over.

Since when was there ever one for this government; you and your Party of whiners made certain of that.

It's time to hold Monte and the CPC accountable for flagrantly jeopardizing the security and liberty of the Canadian people.

And which Party was it in power that slashed the military to ribbons for the last 13 years? Which Party was it that saw members attending terrorist fund raising functions, such as Tamil Tigers? And which Party was it that branded those groups as terrorist organizations while the other Party dithered about it for 13 years? "Jeopardizing security?" You're Party were the champs at that.

Yeah its time to hold the right Party accountable alright, and that Party is the Liberals. It should take YEARS to fix what fuck ups the Liberals have been.

She's got the right moves but she's not that obese.
So I guess it's not over.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=t_B1H-1opys

Some more "journalism" for us to watch and learn from.. watch all 18 minutes very interesting..

Enjoy your rant Bob, are you standing on your head as you write such tripe. You have it totally backwards and upside down, must be a bad day. It's the Liberals to blame for the immigrants we now have, not Monte Solberg and the Conservatives. It's the Liberals who lost 30,000 illegals and have no bloody idea where they are or what their up to.Forget the idea the Conservatives are dropping in the polls, that would be Liberal pollsters doing what Liberal pollsters do, skew the question to get the desired results. So maybe have a look at what you just wrote, it would make a good suppository. You can't be serious, it's a joke, right?

from LGF at the end of a post(cj's own words):
".....
(And by the way, can we all just agree not to call this “Reutersgate?”)"

littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/?entry=21967_The_Reuters_Clone_Tool_Scandal&only

That would be nice.

Good old Bob, feeding us the usual Liebral/Hez-Chopper talking points.

FREE - it is bad enough that the rest of us have to put up with the moonbattery of passing trolls, but when such as you feel free to wish (with some apparent relish) that a person ought to be hung for stating their view...

Sigh. Yes, Bob's got a few screws loose, but giving you the screwdriver is clearly only going to make the matter worse. The default position in a free society is that all views may be stated, but not all acted upon.

Put simply, you blew it twice: (1) you failed to demonstrate that Bob committed an act of treason that has traditionally merited the death penalty, and (2) you presumed guilt, not innocence and set yourself up as judge and jury (by condemning the person rather than the comment).

Think before you comment, OK?

Hey, folks, go easy on Bob. Remember, in Liberal parlance, Conservatives can never do anything right or good. Liberals never lie, it's just that their truth today may differ from their truth yesterday, or tomorrow.

America/Israel are BAD, socialism is good. Liberals didn't lose the last election, they've merely taken a "time out" until their new messiah leads them back from the Opposition wilderness. Who that will be , we'll see, but Liberals will worship him, or her, like the obedient lapdogs they are.

How bout the media (pick one, BBC, CBC, pyjamas, et al) giving a casualty account by the coalition countries involved in Afghanistan? List the reporting agency by country. Is that too simple to ask?

All we seem to get is the narrow focus of "our own fallen" and the "declining support for this mission".

Add up any long weekend civilian deaths and it'll certainly outnumber armed conflict rates. (less the media handwringing). Or for that matter, T.O. gun related murders.....

Pic at link below. Another phony pic from Hajj/Reuters/NYT?

Remember NY Slimes motto: All the fraudulent photos fit to print. ...-

Men at work ( More Adnan Hajj fake photos )

Page 1 above the fold in yesterday's New York Times featured a photo (below) by our new acquaintance Adnan Hajj.

I suspect that not all is as it appears to be in the photo, and somehow doubt that Times readers will ever learn why that might be the case. ...-

The Reuters caption reads: "A severely wounded Lebanese civilian is carried away on a stretcher at Maameltain bridge, after it was targeted by Israeli air strikes, in the north of Beirut August 4, 2006. (Adnan Hajj/Reuters)"
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1679298/posts

BREAKING NEWS!!!

40 Civilians murdered by Israelis in a deliberate bombing!

Ooops....

Make that 1 (one) dead!

Hez-Choppers/Lebos caught in another deliberate lie - fortunately for them they got their message out quickly and the MSM worked their terrorist-enabling magic again.

So it was one versus 40. Nothing like trying to exagerate the number of dead to get the world to feel oh so sorry for the Lebanese population. The Prime Minister of Lebanon should look in the mirror to discover who is responsible for the death of his citizens. Allowing a militia group in his country who unilaterally committed an act of war on behalf of Lebanon is irresponsible and he must take full responsibility. For Israel to withdraw now would be an affront to all those Israel soldiers who have died in this conflict. Until there is a battle ready army ready to move into Lebanon and do what's necessary to disarm Hezbollah then Israel has no choice but to continue to fight. This may get the useless U.N. off their collective asses and do something rather than just talk.

Anyone else notice that the U.N. is okay with the fact that Hezbollah killed 3 U.N. Chinese observers? Kofi has no comments?

"Add up any long weekend civilian deaths . . ."

CORRECT !!

every year, the average death count on the highways of California - just one State - is over six thousand. That's ANNUALLY.

Where is Cindy Sheehan when you really need her ??

So while the NY Slime and Al Reuters whines on about the American Forces having more than 2500 combat deaths in three + years of fighting in Iraq, are they being only a little bit disingenous ?

When CBC makes state funerals for fallen soldiers in Afghanistan as their contribution to smearing the government, but carried not a single story about the 27 combat deaths our "Peacekeeping" troops suffered in the Balkans or the many hundreds who died in 20 years of Cold War service training accidents, are they really serving Canadians well ??

maz2, that's not a civilian... that's a Hezb soldier in uniform.

Grunt, Liz, Slim et al. For god's sake let it go. One must wonder who fits where on the dumb scale; Bob or the dummies who feed the trolls.

The media make up photos, creatively write stories, quote some leaders in a good light and others in a bad light etc. etc.

They pretend to be open minded, investigative 'journalists', but they don't dare question each other's integrity - it must be because none of our media has any integrity at all and so don't want to be caught themselves.

It's a shame considering a professional media with professional journalists would actually serve to make the world a better place.

Guess we have to live with overpaid fascist sympathizers, just like they did in Germany before WWII.

Just watched Charles Johnson of Little Green Footballs being interviewed on CNN about having exposed the doctored photos by Adnan Hajj. It took a few days but this story has made it into the MSM. Reuters has been taken to task for poor screening of photos and has responded-

Reuters withdraws all photos by Lebanese freelance

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/N07348592.htm

LONDON, Aug 7 (Reuters) - Reuters withdrew all 920 photographs by a freelance Lebanese photographer from its database on Monday after an urgent review of his work showed he had altered two images from the conflict between Israel and the armed group Hizbollah.

Global Picture Editor Tom Szlukovenyi called the measure precautionary but said the fact that two of the images by photographer Adnan Hajj had been manipulated undermined trust in his entire body of work.

"There is no graver breach of Reuters standards for our photographers than the deliberate manipulation of an image," Szlukovenyi said in a statement.

"Reuters has zero tolerance for any doctoring of pictures and constantly reminds its photographers, both staff and freelance, of this strict and unalterable policy."

The news and information agency announced the decision in an advisory note to its photo service subscribers. The note also said Reuters had tightened editing procedures for photographs from the conflict and apologised for the case. ...

And, on another front, MORE faked news:

[...]

Norway Reporter Admits Faking Interviews
Aug 07 1:42 PM US/Eastern

OSLO, Norway

A Norwegian journalist has admitted he fabricated interviews with Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates and talk show host Oprah Winfrey, media reports said Monday.

Freelance writer Bjoern Benkow said in a statement that the interviews, published in Norwegian and Swedish media, were partially concocted because of financial "desperation," newspaper Verdens Gang reported.

"I have met and talked to these global celebrities," Benkow was quoted as saying. "But the circumstances and times have not always been as I described."

The acknowledgment came after Microsoft Norway said last week that an interview with Gates, printed in the Norwegian magazine Mann and top- selling Swedish tabloid daily Aftonbladet, was "totally fake."

Benkow claimed he spoke to Gates during a two-hour commercial flight in Europe, but Microsoft Corp. officials said Gates had not been on that plane. In the four-page interview entitled "Big Bill," Gates was quoted as saying in the article that he never carries more than a "dime" in his pocket and that he makes $1 bets with his wife.

Benkow maintained that the quotes used in the article were real, but apologized for lying about when he spoke to Gates.

"What I did was done out of desperation," VG quoted Benkow as saying. "To pay the rent, electricity, food and to survive."

The editors of Mann apologized for the article last week.

Aftonbladet spokesman Olof Brundin initially said the paper was convinced the interview had occurred. On Monday, however, the newspaper published an article calling Benkow a "fraudster" who had deceived the editors.

"We have been fooled, and thereby we fooled our readers," Brundin said, adding that the newspaper was considering suing Benkow.

Aftonbladet also published Benkow's alleged interview with Winfrey earlier this year, but on Monday the article had been removed from the newspaper's Web site.

[...]

gonna be a tad difficult for the norwegian to pay the rent now that his credibility is toast.

this is all old news however. watch the film 'shattered glass' or whatever about the golden boy at republic magazine.

faked DOZENS of articles.

other than immediate financial considerations, what is it that these reporters are after when thye slant their stories to this extent?

they arent shareholders in the company, what drives them to put their careers at risk time and again knowing they will probably be caught??

What a week. Two, count 'em, TWO new stars vault onto the world's stage!
"Dusty" Adnan Hajj and his mobile "PhotoShop While U Wait" service.
And "Shady" Shadi Jradi the relief worker/mortician/green helmet guy/ambulance driver/set decorator/death pimp of Tyre.
I have a feeling, though, that Dusty's sun may have already set; while Shady's is still in the ascent.

What's interesting to me, in a metadata sense, is that the existence of the blogosphere has created a reverse version of Gresham's Law.

For those who don't know, Gresham's Law says "bad money drives out good", and refers to periods when counterfeit money (usually coins, but paper too) was prevalent. People would examine coins and hoard ones that appeared to be unclipped or unshaven, but circulate those that were possibly less than face value. Eventually, the circulating currency was made up almost entirely of debased coinage.

Here, we see that information, since it is not a single store of value (i.e. if I know something, and I tell you, my value is not diminished and may in fact be enhanced, whereas with 'stuff', if I give you some of mine, I have less of it) flips the concept of Gresham. If bad information is circulating (the Adnan Haji photos, Lawand's report on Harper, "40 dead" - oops I mean "1", etc.), there is an incentive to refute it.

But even as few as 20 years ago, we had limited avenues to do so. Letters to the editor, ombudsmen, protesting - these were not highly visible or effective. Now, there are millions of us actively inspecting, rating, and debunking lies posted in the MSM.

So we now have a situation where "good information drives out bad". I confess that, having zero knowledge of Photoshop, I accepted the pictures seen at face value. But, thanks to Kate and others, I now know the truth.

I wonder if this phenomenon will ever get an official name? I'd suggest Drudge, but I'm open to other suggestions.

KevinB, I’d suggest Guttenberg 2.0

Polar(av)oid?

It's a shame considering a professional media with professional journalists would actually serve to make the world a better place.

philanthropist, just who designated these people and the media as "professional", anyway? Think about it, journalists conferred "professional" upon themselves. You and I didn't. I guess what I'm saying is that I'm sick of hearing the phrase "professional journalism".

I refuse to describe journalism as a profession. It has no unique body of knowledge like medicine, physics, etc. There is no licensing required. The only barrier to performing successfully the act of commercial journalism is their political and guild mentality in hiring. My guess, in 30 days, most of us could master print formats and protocols - we aren't talking rocket science or doing root canals.

What's unfolding is similar to the demise of the authoritative Catholic church of my childhood. The MSM, once a trusted icon,
has been outed. Finally. Like the clueless Vatican with the priests scandals, the arrogant owners and editors of the MSM would rather fall on their swords, than admit their product stinks or that they lie.

what is the law called the one about 'bad reporting drives out good'?

LOL !!!

my suspicion? this slanting and image fudging HAS BEEN GOING ON FOR OVER A CENTURY. blogs are the FIRST TIME an easily accessable universal avenue has existed whereby said millions of independent critics can look at it quickly and communicate findings.

this is a revolution in the making people, right here right now.

do you 'get' it? this degree of access has NEVER EXISTED BEFORE. and the good guys are winning.

enjoy it while you can !!!

hip hip hoorah for Kate and the crew.

the truth will out, the truth will out!!

I think the "Lights! Camera! Ululate" link may be broken, Kate.

Dante, The main page is at

http://drinkingfromhome.blogspot.com/

Scroll down.

More info here on the same ad worker.

http://eureferendum.blogspot.com/2006/07/milking-it.html

More info here on the same aid worker.

http://eureferendum.blogspot.com/2006/07/milking-it.html

http://youtube.com/watch?v=t_B1H-1opys

Some more "journalism" for us to watch and learn from.. watch all 18 minutes very interesting..

Swear I just saw Uulating slumlord woman on a stretcher after what appeared to be being jackhammered out of yet another one of her vast realestate flattened holdings.

Penny, did you hear about the journalist that married a prostitute?
It wasn't long before he dragged her down to his level.

"Nothing that is said can be true. The truth cannot be contained by words, by gestures, by bodies, by minds.

The truth sounds forth in everything that’s said, regardless of what it is. The truth presents itself in and as every lie ever told; in the greatest poetry, and the most mundane doggerel verse.

The truth has fingers and toes, but does not have fingers and toes. The truth embraces every apparent contradiction, because everything that is, is true in its very presencing.

It is because anything that is said is a lie, because what is true can never be the content of any word or phrase, it is very important that we try to speak the truth. The trying is very important.

It is very important that when we stand up we stand up, when we sit down we sit down. It is very important. Although we can never contain or constrain what is true, it is very important that we try to express it, and try so completely, so thoroughly, that all effort drops away. When all effort drops away, when there is no one trying to express what is true, then the truth that presents itself even as every lie rings forth in a way that can be recognized. If we try to grasp at what was recognized, and attempt to turn it into a doctrine, into a way of believing, a faith, a philosophical system, an excuse, then we’ve missed it. Recognition is a moment in which Knowing is known, not as a known, but as who you are. Practice is the practice of opening to this recognition and making this recognition real in each and every moment. Then, we can call it “realized-practice”. But regardless of what we call it, it is something that we must do, something that must be embodied. In order to embody it, we must sit, walk, stand, and lie down in the midst of ambiguity, in the midst of uncertainty, in the more and more deeper and deeper unavoidably obvious fact that we do not know what anything is. When we become really, really good at not-knowing, then we’ll have something interesting to say." - Some Guy

Some Guy called Dithers

"Can we fix that in Photoshop?"

Yup.

Or Egghead.

I suggest we take up a collection for "Bob the Bridge Troll" and send him on a one way vacance to A-stan. He can hang out with his "misunderstood" Taliban friends and we can shoot at him.
Don't take it personally Bob...but the rank and file military, myself included are not upset with PM Harper. We are happy to actually have compatent leadership for a change. The first we have had in ....oh I would say 13 years.....nice try Bob...now go stick your head in the sand and hum "we are the world"...it will make you feel better. Oh...and Bob, don't forget your rose coloured glasses

Cheers!

Bloggers: In addition to Reuters, fisk the following: BBC, CBC, CNN, AP, AGF, CP, NYT, and more. Fisk all of them.

Bloggers war against the MSM. ...-

What we are up against

Excerpt:

Which brings me back to the point where this entire saga started just over a week ago. What we are dealing with is not one news agency having a rogue photographer and incompetent editors who then try to cover their backs but a canker that has eaten into almost the entire MSM or, at least, its English language parts.

There are various reasons here, I think. One is the bias that is no longer seen as bias. The MSM tends to lean to the left and takes up all left-wing causes with gusto. This goes even for the supposedly right-wing publications like the Daily Telegraph.

They have all reached a stage when they no longer even understand that they are biased but assume that their own bias is the objective point of view. It is those who depart from it who are weird. We have seen this on matters European, on the reporting of American politics and society and, above all, the Middle East. Here it is axiomatic in most of the MSM that Israel is a land-grabbing, arrogant, aggressive, imperialistic, racist ….. (fill in the blanks) entity, though few would admit that they think the country should not even exist.

Most journalists do not bother to find out much about Israel or, for that matter, the surrounding countries and will happily repeat any old rubbish about the treatment of Israeli Arabs, for instance. When did the BBC last mention the fact that there are Arab deputies in the Knesset?

Some of it is in-built bias and some of it is plain sloppiness. I have worked in journalism and know how often one goes for the easy option: asking the same “experts”, quoting the same sources, using the same copy or pictures. And when the balloon goes up, as it has done with Reuter’s this week-end, the immediate instinct is to try to wriggle out.

Given all that, it is easy enough for those who are determined to produce propaganda to do so and to exploit the bias and the laziness. We have seen this over and over again, not least with Pulitzer Prize winners in the United States and, in particular, the New York Times. A third reaction sets in: a reluctance to acknowledge that a young intern or a journalist or a photographer with his own agenda has played all those hard-nosed, experienced editors for suckers.

Finally, one cannot end this subject without mentioning the stupendous self-satisfaction of the media. Those of us old enough can remember where it started: Watergate and Vietnam – the media bringing down a President and ensuring American defeat. Those were the glory days and many, certainly in the States, still hark back to that. It annoys them that Iraq is not Vietnam and Bush is not Nixon (also greatly hated by the great and the good).

Journalists became the ultimate arbiters of opinion and political mores. They could question any one; undermine any one; destroy any reputation. There was no higher court of public opinion. Not until a few years ago when the bloggers appeared and started doing to the media what it had done to politicians and others. My guess is that many of the journalists in question are still in shock and cover it by their grand, condescending, self-approbation.

"Who are you to question us?" That is the theme of most journalists on bloggers, words that are very similar to the ones politicians used a long time ago about the journalists themselves. Physician, heal thyself.

On balance and despite everything I can see that bloggers are needed. They do hunt in packs but we need lots of different packs hunting in different directions, sometimes going for each others’ throats. A free market in opinion or, maybe, a jungle. A healthy growth, whichever way one looks at it. Maybe I shall not resign yet.
http://eureferendum.blogspot.com/

Anyone notice BBC World News report today on the slimeball CBC?

Prominent feature from Lebanon with the infamour Green Helmut Guy front and centre.
Same patchy beard, glasses and the stupid safety vest over the flack jacket.
Ingeniously chnged persona by taping the helut over with masking tape....green still shows through!

BBC on hand for staged photo-op happily rebroadcast on our Terrorist loving state funded propaganda network.

OMMAG

Some little boy impersonating a soldier said: "I suggest we take up a collection for "Bob the Bridge Troll" and send him on a one way vacance to A-stan. He can hang out with his "misunderstood" Taliban friends and we can shoot at him."

Heh, if I was a wuss - a wuss like, say, Jeff Goldstein or Steve "Not Without My Daughter!" Janke - I'd be crying to INTERPOL over this latest death threat. Carry on :-)

BCer: Who are you calling dummies? Please clarify. Some situations and people can safely be ignored and some we ignore at our peril. You can give it a rest if you wish but some of us are concerned about some very serious happenings in our world.If you don't mind we'll continue on without your blessing. Glad to know someone is satisfied that all is well.

Some Guy's words: What a load of inauthentic, pretentious pap!

Reuters denies Qana photos were staged. Reuters has learned nothing from Reutersgate. From Reuters article at their website:

Reuters says:

"He [Adnan Hajj] was among several photographers from the main international news agencies whose images of a dead child being held up by a rescuer in the village of Qana, south Lebanon, after an Israeli air strike on July 30 have been challenged by blogs critical of the mainstream media's coverage of the Middle East conflict.

Reuters and other news organizations reviewed those images and have all rejected allegations that the photographs were staged." ...-

Reutergate Is News Everywhere But in the (formerly) Mainstream Media
Posted by Tom Blumer on August 7, 2006 - 00:05.
http://newsbusters.org/node/6797

UPDATE: Go to Matt Sheffield's open thread for current developments

Excerpt:

"You might think that all of the hubbub might get the investigative attention of those outlets that used to be considered The "Mainstream" Media.

Based on a Google News search on "Reuters," you would be wrong:

(The image is of the first few results of a search just before 1 AM on August 7; other results relating to the Hajj photo appeared below the portion of the page that was image-captured and on the subsequent page, but none were from "major media" outlets. To ensure that nothing was missed, I also did a "Sort by Date" and looked at all 26 items listed in the first result and both in the third before reaching my conclusions.)

The only US "Mainstream" Media outlets listed by Google News as dealing with the story are ABC Online, ABC News, Editor & Publisher, and The Washington Post, all of which merely reprinted the Reuters press release about "dropping" Hajj. All other listings are of blogs that have managed to pass whatever tests Google News has for being classified as "news sources," a few other smaller publications, and about a dozen overseas papers, including about a half-dozen from Israel.

The New York Times? It didn't show up in the Google News search, but The Times, like the Post, merely carried Reuters' press release.

This singular lack of curiosity over what is developing into a major scandal is an eerie echo of another very similar-sounding "-gate" from about 2 years ago. The formerly "Mainstream" Media ignores this story at great risk to what's left of its photojournalistic, and other, credibility."