The Photo That Started It All (Media lying via the camera)

HonestReporting.com ^ | Oct 20, 2002

[1rudeboy]

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[HighWheeler]

do you remember this image?

Within two days of this photo being snapped and published, an editorial cartoon was made from this image, with a thought balloon from the fireman's mind that said: "damn right wingers."

That day, the fireman made a huge complaint that he would have never thought that, and that in fact he was conservative, and even listened to Rush Limbaugh. Since then the editorial cartoon is virtually impossible to find.

[Southack]

Grrr...

[maine-iac7]

bump Obsession: What The War on Terror Is Really About

Great link - THANKS

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6162397493278181614&q=obsession


Powerful! HOWEVER - now, on all sites that this video is listed, from the time I looked at it about 2hours ago - is now UNAVAILABLE! Has it been been pulled? Or maybe too many watching at once??? I would hope this hasn't been spiked! If so, we need to find out who...


Frightening - even for folk like us who KNOW what's going on.

What channel was this on? It needs to be re-shown and re-shown - and every congresscritter aught to be MADE to watch it.

We need to start a media education that these barbarians raise/school/train their own children to hate and be brainwashed to become human bombs. WE need to remind people that it is the their YOUNG that theses cowards strap their bombs on.

We need to remind people that these terrorists take the meaning of barbarism to a whole new level - raising their own children for fodder.

The terrorists are smart enough to know that the media and perception can win battles - but we don't have to use propaganda - just the truth. These barbarians kill their own - with great deliberation.

Islam is a religion of mind-control. It permeates every aspect of life - even to minute instructions on how to go to the bathroom. It operates on the same principles as hypnotism - and the public call to make like a stink bug with your butt in the air and you head on the ground pointed to Mecca - is the trigger that keeps the people under the spell.

The Ka'ba in Mecca is a mosque (built by Abraham according to Muslim tradition) built around a black stone.
(This is what billions of muslims pray to 5 times a day - the stone is simply, according to reports, a meteorite - which, of course, when it stuck earth many hundreds of years ago, would have been venerated as something from the Gods.

Most civilizations have progressed since then - Islam has not.


Even tho' only an estimate 10-15% of Muslims are terrorists - the rest are controlled by fear and rendered mute. We need to remember these low percentages were all it took for Communism and Nazism to take control -

We need to get the people educated that the enemy is not just the U.S. - but anyone and everyone who is not Muslim - world wide. We cannot afford to twiddle our thumbs this time and let these barbarians gain anymore ground...
I hope people are getting a clue - with the madMan in Iran, even today - shouting that first we need a cease fire and then Israel needs to be annihilated...hello, folks. (and then England/U.S./France/Germany/Spain/...

[b4its2late]

Yes, well said. And might I add that our drive by media needs to get the word out but it refuses to. All the clips in this movie are available and shown on arab TV. No wonder why they can spread their hate so easily.

[weegee]

Flashback (NY Times) Media Schadenfreude and Media Shenanigans PING

On the day the Intafada broke out, Tuvia Grossman was riding a taxi to visit the Western Wall. He was unwittingly thrust into the international limelight -- and nearly killed in the process.

On September 30, 2000, The New York Times, Associated Press and other major media outlets published a photo of a young man -- bloodied and battered -- crouching beneath a club-wielding Israeli policeman. The caption identified him as a Palestinian victim of the recent riots -- with the clear implication that the Israeli soldier is the one who beat him.

The victim's true identity was revealed when Dr. Aaron Grossman of Chicago sent the following letter to the Times:

Regarding your picture on page A5 of the Israeli soldier and the Palestinian on the Temple Mount -- that Palestinian is actually my son, Tuvia Grossman, a Jewish student from Chicago. He, and two of his friends, were pulled from their taxicab while traveling in Jerusalem, by a mob of Palestinian Arabs, and were severely beaten and stabbed.

That picture could not have been taken on the Temple Mount because there are no gas stations on the Temple Mount and certainly none with Hebrew lettering, like the one clearly seen behind the Israeli soldier attempting to protect my son from the mob.

In response, the New York Times published a half-hearted correction which identified Tuvia Grossman as "an American student in Israel" -- not as a Jew who was beaten by Arabs. The "correction" also noted that "Mr. Grossman was wounded" in "Jerusalem's Old City" -- although the beating actually occurred in the Arab neighborhood of Wadi al Joz, not in the Old City.

[Pharmboy]

Great post, Laz. Bumpity bump...

[Panzerlied]

Q: What is the difference between a NYT reporter and Lord Haw Haw?

A: Lord Haw Haw was executed for his treason!

[ichabod1]

fmpalestites.

[Elsie]

 ^^^^^  

[PA Engineer]

May I add an "occupation media" at that.

[KC Burke]

Laz,
Thanks for posting this, I just barely remember the photo its misutilization. I is great to have the full details fresh in our mind in light of the last few weeks.

[okie01]

I just took a link on another thread that got me to that web site, but I thought it was so powerful in the face of the KanaFraud, that it should be brought forward as a full-bore thread.

I wonder if the AP photographer in this case was Arab.

So many of the Qana photographs were attributed to Arab stringers, one suspects that every photo shot by an Arab is a misrepresentation.

Similarly, reporters of Arab descent have consistently misrepresented the facts in Iraq. Remember the "wedding"?

Do the news outlets even consider this issue when they a.) hire a stringer or b.) publish their work. The evidence says "No"!

[okie01]

The photo you posted is illustrative of another point.

The Murrah building collapsed, due to explosives. Like the apartment building in Qana.

Falling concrete, or explosively propelled concrete, creates physical trauma -- as evidenced by the bruises and blood on that poor child.

Unlike Qana...

[Straight Vermonter]

Excellent post this is good stuff.

[polymuser]

ENEMEDIA, an enemy of true, republican, capitalist, moral, constitutionalist Americans.

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[Just A Nobody]

ENEMEDIA Ping!

You forgot Randall!!!

What fun we had the night the term ENEMEDIA was born.
I thought I had saved that thread, but alas, I can't find it...quickly.

enemy + media = enemedia
enema + media = enemedia

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