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."

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.

Bob-The-Troll, that's the stupidest crap ever written. When you woke up this morning, and I'm giving you the benefit of the doubt here, I don't think you said to yourself I'm going to write the stupidest crap ever written, but, you did. Now, having garnered the stupidest-crap-ever-written attention by me, and, my policy of not feeding trolls that write the stupidest-stuff-ever-written, I'm putting you on permanent ignore because nothing you could write after that could be more stupid and worthy of mention.

maz2 - You are too good for the trolls and rabble who haunt Kate's blog.

But keep it up anyway! ;)

OMMAG

back at ya bob yaaaaaaaaaaaawn

Who needs photoshop to distort reality?
http: //www.judeoscope.ca/article.php3?id_article=0438

No flag of the controversial Shia movement was visible during the march

Here. In our cities. With Hezb'allah flags. I'm not making this up.

Liz, Liz, Liz! I'm no more satisfied than are you with what is transpiring. The point I was making is basic to blogging. If a snake like Bob happens along and writes stupid, inflammatory crap such as his initial post he can immediately be identified as a troll. And ...... what do we do with trolls? Simple. We ignore them and that drives them nuts. If you are sucker enough to respond to his bait - go ahead. Feed him. That's exactly what he wants you to do.

LGF:
More Evidence of Lebanon Photo Staging

Power Line has still more Reuters photographs from Lebanon that are almost certainly staged: A Bridge Too Weird.

One of my mottos used to be, “It still isn’t weird enough.” OK. Now it’s weird enough. ...-

A Bridge Too Weird

The story of the day is Reuters photographer Adnan Hajj. As I wrote earlier today, I think the most important issue here is not the faking of photographs, but the staging of photographs. In that connection, reader Cathy Brooks has done a tremendous job of analyzing Hajj's photos. I want to focus here on one set: the ones relating to the bombing of Qasmiya Bridge, near Tyre. Everything in the post that follows is attributable to Cathy's efforts; any errors of inference are mine. A quick preliminary note: Reuters has pointed out that the dates and times that appear with photographs when they are published do not represent the time at which the picture was taken, and do not necessarily reflect the order in which the photos were taken. Nevertheless, I have included the date and time listed for each photo for whatever it is worth. One more preliminary note: For speed, I am going to put the photos up without links, and will add the links later when I have time.

The sequence begins here, at 7:30 a.m. ET on July 12. This picture's caption: "Lebanese citizens run shortly after Israeli warplanes bombed Qasmiya Bridge near Tyre in south Lebanon July 12, 2006." It isn't clear how much time has gone by since the bombing, or why they're running. Note that in this series of pictures, no people are visible other than Hajj's cast of characters. ...-

http://powerlineblog.com/archives/014929.php

I agree with BCer. People like "Bob" post inflammatory or nonsensical material for ONE reason only...to generate one or more responses from regulars. If you repond, you hand him a victory. A feather for his cap. No response?...no win, and eventually they go away.

Boob is just another armchair insurgent.

I won't read even a complete sentence of his unless it starts out like this:

Day 1 I'm now a Human Shield for Hezbollah.

Canoe News had this report from AP up; it was soon buried in "Media News".

(AP) - The Reuters news agency said Monday it has cut its ties with a Beirut-based freelance photographer who it found had manipulated two photographs from the ongoing fighting in Lebanon. It also removed all 920 pictures by the photographer from its database ...-
http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/MediaNews/2006/08/07/1723660-ap.html

I am beginning to wonder who is the biggest bozo, boob or brainless twit, bob or those that respond.

Dang, here I thought the real morons were the ones that are always shussshing people to "be quiet!"

Reutergate is potentially the MSM's version of Bre-X. Whereas Rathergate blew the credibility off one (admittedly very prominent) member of the MSM, Reutergate should lead to serious questions of the MSM generally starting with the wire services' agendas, methods of gathering, collating and editing information. The whole issue of staging of news events is being raised again in addition to simply doctoring and spinning. Stock markets and investing rely on trust and integrity and the whole Bre-X thing led to a re-examining of the rules and vetting of assay claims. Reutergate should lead to a similar re-examining of the news services. But I won't hold my breath.

Bob: ""Nothing that is said can be true"

Not to feed the trolls, but this is the essence of all that is wrong and perverse with "modern philosophy". If you deny an objective truth, then you only admit to a subjective truth. And in that world, black is white, right is wrong, and Hezbollah are freedom fighters against Israeli terrorists.

The sad truth is many of our sons and daughters are being subjected to this theory at universities across the land. I was proud to have studied philosophy in the mid-70's at U of T; the professors I had would have tossed out Bob's drivel in an instant. But today.. I have no confidence in the liberal arts faculties. I'm going to encourage my two daughters to be engineers.

...I come in to read a blog about Reutergate and end up watching a p*ssing contest.

Come on folks, leave the troll alone.

Honesty is the recognition of the fact that the unreal is unreal and can have no value. That neither love, nor fame, nor cash, is a value if obtained by fraud. That an attempt to gain a value by deceiving the minds of others is an act of raising your victims to a position higher than reality, where you become a pawn of their blindness, a slave of their non-thinking and their evasions. While their intelligence their rationality, their perceptiveness becomes the enemies you have to dread and flee. That you do not care to live as a dependent, least of all a dependent of the stupidity of others or as a tool whose source of values is the tolls he succeeds in fooling. That honesty is not a social duty, not a sacrifice for the sake of others, but the most profoundly selfish virtue a man can practice: his refusal to sacrifice the reality of his own existence to the deluded consciousness of others.

Ayn Rand

Mr. Hajj (the guilty photographer - and he IS guilty) is a freelance photographer who gets paid by the photo. The more fantastic and spectacular the photo - the more he gets paid.

So..... either he has a political bias (or) he was trying to maximize his profit.

leftdog,

What you said almost.

... or maybe he knows what his customer wants to see ... and he delivers.

as to the cartoon...PYTHONESQUE...
"BRING OUT YER..."
but really,the shameless pandering by reuters is too
pathetic...pile that organization on the rubble of
what the IDF hits next and bulldoze it into the sea

What a relief to discover that all that collateral damage was caused by Photoshop, not by ordnance. So all that has to happen is that we hit "undo" and Lebanon will be restored.

Great focus on the flyshit. Now what about the pepper, people?

agitfact: The 'pepper' is firmly affixed to the palate of those for whom "Disproportional Response" and "Israeli aggression" have become an integral part of their lexicon, and who are unable to differentiate between insect excrement & condiments.

I don't CARE if Lebanon can be or will be 'restored'; the Arabs, collectively, are (ir)responsible for their own destruction.......I'm only concerned about Israel's ability to recover from this pernicious propaganda.

CTV weighs in

News agency cuts ties with Beirut photographer

http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20060807/mideast_reuters_060807/20060807?hub=World

.....According to Reuters spokeswoman Moira Whittle, Hajj denied deliberately attempting to manipulate the image. He said he was trying to remove dust marks and made mistakes because of bad lighting conditions, she said Sunday.

....Also on Monday, the AP recalled a photo that it had transmitted Sunday night of a worker in Alaska examining an oil pipeline. In that photo, the worker appeared to have four hands, and there were other elements such as a section of pipe that appeared to have a double image.

....Lyon said the distortions were unintentional and resulted from careless use by the photographer of a software feature in Photoshop called a "cloning tool.'' The photographer had used the feature in an attempt to clear up a glitch in the picture caused by a dirty sensor, the part of a digital camera that records the image. AP's ethical guidelines permit use of "cloning'' in limited circumstances to clean up dirt or scratches from an image.

....Lyon said the error was not caught by either the photographer or the editing desk before it was transmitted on the AP's photo service. He said the company was reviewing disciplinary actions against the photographer and other parties involved.

....Last month, The Charlotte Observer said it had terminated one of its photographers, Patrick Schneider, after finding that he had altered the colours in a photo of a firefighter on a ladder.

....Kenny Irby, visual journalism group leader at The Poynter Institute for Media Studies in St. Petersburg, Fla., said all three instances show that news organizations need to be more careful in how they handle images.

...."There has to be an editing component that ensures the accuracy of the content,'' Irby said. "It's not just the photographer that should be examined, but the overall process of the news organization that must be held accountable.''

In this CTV news story they have taken at face value Hajj's assertion that distortion was caused by using photoshop to remove dust particles. They include two other examples where mistakes were made by other news photographers to highlight this point, although personally, I think that Hajj deliberately altered his photographs to make them look more spectacular. What I find most stunning about these errors, deliberate or otherwise, is do the editors not actually LOOK at these photographs before releasing them on the newswires?

Belmont Club knows:

Civilization, Western and non-Western, is faced with an Enemy consisting of Muslim Islamist terrorists, a.g., hezbollah and its allies: The United Nations, including Kofi Anan's War Against Israel, and the mass Media, e.g., Reuters, AP, CP, AGF, CBC, CTV, etc.

Within Canada, the external Enemy is aided and abetted, not only by the mass Media; the Liberal/NDP Socialist/Bloc/PQ, etc., are working full-out to destroy Canada from within.

The Enemy within is a real and present danger to Canada.

Who/what is the Enemy?

Here is the Enemy of civilization:

Muslim Islamist terrorists; the MSM; the United Nations (think Kofi Annan, Maurice Strong, AdScam Chretien Martin); left/liberal socialist parties/politicians - think McDonough, Layton, Graham, Rae, Coderre, Davies, Fry, etc.; the Islamist imams within Canada, El Masry, etc. ...-

Wretchard says:

"Modern terrorism is able to exploit not only the spotlights but the shadows of the Western media. And it is largely invulnerable to armies."

More:

These analysts do not mean to suggest that Hezbollah is tactically defeating the IDF, but defeating it strategically. It is gaining its political goals. And one of the most powerful weapons in the non-state arsenal are the cultural institutions of the states themselves: their mass media and international organizations of states like the United Nations. ...-

http://fallbackbelmont.blogspot.com/2006/08/sling-and-stone.html

Video of LGF's Charles Johnson interview on CNN

http://hotair.com/archives/the-blog/2006/08/07/video-charles-johnson-talks-shop-on-cnn/

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Nemo2, that is a clear position. It is not propaganda that is the problem, since it is used by all sides and can be discounted. It is the reality, the facts both new and old, that is the problem, and no amount of propaganda can make it go away.

Maz2, don't eat that - that's horseshit!

More than ever the task for us in the "blogosphere" is to sharpen now our faculties and bring our individual expertise to bear on what is served up by the MSM, subject it to critical analysis, and work to debunk the nonsense. At the same time we musn't fall into the trap, as some are already doing at other sites, of finding fraud in every photo and assuming that all stories are fakes -- a cynical nihilism about the news. There is a war going on and people, including Lebanese civilians, are in fact dying. It's our task to make a proportionate response to the disporportionate propaganda emanating from this and other events.

The first enemy the western world will have to defeat is the leftern world within. Arnold Toyunbee had it right, and it was never truer than today, civilizations die from suicide, not murder. The drones in our society today, government dependent employees and government workers of all varieties, teachers etc, are too comfortable in the womb of the socialist state to really grasp the real world. Their haze of contentment is a danger to our lifestyle through apathy and a complete lack of understanding of how our Western society is allowed to function at a practical and sustainable level. Sustainable meaning standing up for our way of life and defending it, not acquiescing to every self serving pressure group because it is the path of least resistance. Practically, that decisions you make affect you directly and you are directly responsible for those decisions.

That the verbal ramblings of the left and your Pollyanna view of the way things should be, cannot be allowed to sidetrack the way things are on a functional and practical level. Everyone, myself included, wish your Pollyanna view of the world was the way it is, but it isn’t. The leftern world has a real disconnect in their academic/Pollyanna view of the world and our Western society, and reality.

When Camelot needs a new mayor there sure as hell won’t be a lack of candidates.

Western Canadian, I couldn't agree with you more, even though I'm a teacher. As you might imagine, I'm a fish out of water in the politically correct cesspool that's public education these days. Most teachers, indeed, just go with the (very smelly) flow. In my working environment, I keep my cultural, religious, and political views strictly to myself. Freedom of expression? No way: I could probably be suspended, if not fired, for views not in lock step with the board's "diversity" code. It's interesting that "diversity" doesn't include my more traditional world view at all. Actually, it's interesting how, when Pollyanna wants everyone to think like her, she morphs into a Stalin-like harpy--no compassion at all and very dangerous.

western canada is right on about comfortable public servants, my horror stories:

OVER a year getting city officials to simply tell me straight out what they *can* do about garbage left on the street outside pickup days. a whole year nagging and pestering them. I wasnt even demanding action anymore, just finding out what they *could* do.

8 months and counting on getting my trillium coverage topped up. excuse after excuse after excuse. and last week demands for yet more information (why not tell me RIGHT FROM THE START ALL THE INFO REQUIREMENTS INSTEAD OF TRICKLING THEM OUT?????) and its been 3 months since I gave them permission to peek at my tax info and rev canada still doesnt have that on file.

parking admin officials here in RobertJville summarily dismissed any suggestions that ideal street parking spaces be designated for disabled. instead, told "thye can use the library parking building". ya right, the one with the big fat steel bar across the entrance limiting the height of vehicles, especially vans equipped with power lifts? also "well they can use parallel parking any time" uh huh. how the fuk is a disabled person suppoed to heave themselves up, twist around, and reach back to the steering wheel to get a good look at the rt rear corner of the vehicle to DO the manouver???? plus how are they supposed to see thru the steel wall of the van?????

what else... oh ya, local lieberal mp: given a total of about 10 or 12 questions during the previous lieberal minority under pmpm. mostly about government spending.

didnt answer a single one. not one. my hunch is word came 'from on high' not to answer any questions about spending because they knew adscam was on the horizon. the tactic changed in december 2005 to denying the questions were even posed, so when I started to recite them right there inthe constituency office, the tactic changed once again to theatening to call the cops. completely expected from the turdeau fascist thugs.

"civilizations die from suicide, not murder."

sooooo true.

etc etc

Defend Canada and Western civilization.

Down with Islamist fascism and its apologists; the socialist NDP/left liberals.

Speak out in defence of Canada; in defence of your family and neighbours.

Christopher Foulds and Kamloops This Week is speaking out. ...-

Hezbollah apologists a disgrace to Canada

By CHRISTOPHER FOULDS
Aug 06 2006

About the only thing missing from the local NDP press release concerning the carnage in Lebanon and Israel was a paragraph extolling the virtues of the freedom fighters known as Hezbollah, that misunderstood band of lovable renegades battling the demon child that is Israel. ...-
http://www.kamloopsthisweek.com/portals-code/list.cgi?paper=15&cat=48&id=702954&more=

The Passion of the Toys [More photos from Beirut]
Slublog ^ | August 08, 2006 | Slublog

Posted on 08/08/2006 12:51:07 PM PDT by PajamaTruthMafia

The Passion of the Toys
You ain't seen nothing yet.

Go here to see the toys; fresh from the store packages; clean; strewn about by AP/Reuters photogs.

See Mickey with 2 arms, 2 legs, 2 ears, etc.

Fraudulent photos staged for effect. ...-

In Platoon, Oliver Stone said the first casualty of war is innocence.

He was wrong.

As the photos here show, the first casualties of war are...the symbols of innocence. And photographers from Reuters and the AP just happened upon many of these perfectly placed symbols of war's horrors. ...-
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1680035/posts

Another bogus photo? (Update: “The Passion of the Toys”)

Just got an e-mail about the following photo from someone who claims to work at Boeing.

nasser.jpg

Caption:

Two Lebanese army soldiers inspect a damaged vehicle that was struck by Israeli ware [sic] plane missiles at the village of Kfar Zabad in the eastern Bekaa Valley, Lebanon Sunday, Aug. 6, 2006. Israel and Hezbollah sharply intensified fighting Saturday with airstrikes, rocket attacks and brutal ground fighting, an apparent bid to inflict maximum mutual damage even as the United States and France agreed on a draft U.N. resolution calling for a halt to the violence. (AP Photo/Nasser Nasser)

Says my correspondent:

I am not saying the description is false, but I spent 20 years in the Air Force, much of that time doing targeting and mission planning for aircrews which involved a lot of post-strike analysis. This is by far, the lease [sic] amount of damage from an “air strike” I have ever seen. Even a Hellfire missile does more damage than this, remember the Predator strike on the car of some Al Qaeda operatives some time back? Total destruction of a soft vehicle like this. The only damage, other than minor body damage, I see is a missing sun roof. Thought you might want to add it to your list of possible fakes. ...-
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1680072/posts