Posted on 08/02/2006 11:09:28 AM PDT by mojito
An LGF reader has forwarded the following email (I suppose you could say our reader “leaked” it), sent to all Associated Press employees, congratulating themselves on the propaganda photos from Qana and awarding the photographers cash prizes:
"Dear Staffers:
Last Sunday proved to be one of the most dramatic days in the war between Israel and Hezbollah fighters in Lebanon. AP’s extensive photo team produced a stunning series of images that day that beat the competition and scored huge play worldwide.
Rumors surfaced early Sunday morning that an Israeli airstrike had flattened a house in the southern Lebanese village of Qana. The number of deaths wasn’t immediately known, but the seriousness of the incident was clear. Beirut-based photographer Hussein Malla immediately called AP photographers Nasser Nasser, Lefteris Pitarakis and stringer Mohammed Zaatari and advised them to rush to the scene. Nasser arrived as the bodies of many civilians — including numerous children — were being pulled from the rubble. Lefteris later took over, enabling Nasser to get his pictures swiftly onto the wire. Kevin Frayer was dispatched from Beirut to boost AP’s presence. Throughout the morning, AP’s team filed a steady stream of powerful images.
Meanwhile, in Beirut, a small Hezbollah demonstration exploded into violence at word of the Qana attack. Hezbollah supporters stormed the nearby United Nations building, scaling walls and smashing their way past bulletproof glass barriers to enter the building itself. Photographers Hussein Malla, Kevork Djansezian and Ben Curtis were all there to capture the rioting. Beirut-based photo editor Dalia Khamissy coordinated with photographers in the field and handled a steady stream of stringer photos. All day long, AP photographers relayed what they were seeing to AP reporters for print stories.
Nasser’s most haunting image showed a man emerging from the rubble carrying the lifeless and dust-covered body of a child. Calm, morning light shone down on man and child, highlighting them against an almost monochrome background of pure rubble. ... Nasser’s image ran on the front pages of at least 33 newspapers, including the San Francisco Chronicle, Chicago Tribune, The Philadelphia Inquirer and the New York Post. It also won a double-page center spread in The Guardian of London. Lefteris’s image of a resident weeping next to a row of bodies made the front of The Washington Post, among many others. Hussein, Kevork and Ben’s images of the storming of the UN building easily beat those of the competition.
For a day of outstanding a memorable photos, taken in conditions of substantial danger, the Lebanon photo team of Nasser Nasser, Lefteris Pitarakis, Kevin Frayer, Mohammed Zaatari, Ben Curtis, Hussein Malla, Kevork Djansezian and Dalia Khamissy shares this week’s $500 Beat of the Week award."
Somehow, I think I know the answer to that already...
Did you see who asked a relevant question? (Wait for it)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oE02MK74Qzc&search=Qana
The man is likely where he is because it's in the shade... I can attest to seeking the shade whenever possible, over here (Iraq, and before that Afghanistan.) I'm NOT speaking about any staged aspects of the image, just the practical one. ;0)
The Hezzie men were in another building, huh?
First, I see you have bought the whole Qana thing, hook, line and sinker, replete with the gruesome, glossy, pre-positioned stills. Conscience notwithstanding, you must endure over a whoring media dancing to the Islamofacists' flames.
Secondly, it is our damn business. Have you fogotten the terrorist group responsible for the Marine barracks bombing? Anything else come to mind? As well, it is in our best interests to see these monkeys killed and/or caged. Damn your sensibilities!
A Tree and Its Fruit
15"Watch out for false prophets. They come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ferocious wolves. 16By their fruit you will recognize them. Do people pick grapes from thornbushes, or figs from thistles? 17Likewise every good tree bears good fruit, but a bad tree bears bad fruit. 18A good tree cannot bear bad fruit, and a bad tree cannot bear good fruit. 19Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire. 20Thus, by their fruit you will recognize them.
I'm sure that was just coincidental...Not.
Not surprised at all. Dhimmi Western Media is happy to play to the tune of Jihadists. And they wonder why they are loosing the audience.
Some Freeper will undoubtedly come up with a nice "GIF" for the $500 Blood Money prize awarded these "journalists." I wish I knew how to do it myself!
Is that the Rachel Corey model? Good dozers, them.
"If it seems too good to be true, it probably is."
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Does anyone know who wrote and signed this infamous letter? Would it be the AP's Chairman of the Board? If so, who is he (or she)?
MSM hardly ever corrects a story. They never corrected the story about the Balkan concentration camps.
"Beirut-based photographer Hussein Malla immediately called AP photographers Nasser Nasser, Lefteris Pitarakis and stringer Mohammed Zaatari and advised them to rush to the scene."
It's SATIRE folks. Look at these names - they're made up. Obviously written by some right-winger trying to make it look like the AP is just another arm of the terrorists. LEFTeris? Give me a break! /s
Kind of like the whole Qana thing was made up.
sniff, sniff...I think I smell another "pulitzer prize" for the AP photogs. After all, they won for the picture of a terrorist killing an Iraqi election worker in the street so why not a win for using dead children as props...
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