[a fool in paradise]

Media Schadenfreude and Media Shenanigans PING

Well there was Vanity Fair's fake:

http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/0202061vietnam1.html

And Time-Lies photoshopped this:

And a hired journalist/artist photographer photoshopped this:

And USA Ptooey photoshopped this:

And the LAtte Times photoshopped this:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/photo/essays/vanRiper/030409.htm

And the Daily Mirror ran a staged photo of a British soldier (NOT in Iraq) urinating on a man the press claimed was an Iraqi prisoner (he was not).

http://www.stinkyjournalism.org/editordetail.php?id=294

But let's pretend that the media doesn't play these games in the West to slur our military efforts as they engage in naked treason.

[Deb]

The L.A. Times ran that photo of the “menacing” soldier on its front page. A day or two later they had to disavow it, but I referenced it in every Letter to the Editor I wrote them.