Posted on 08/06/2006 4:35:24 AM PDT by Crazieman
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Or simply made up out of whole cloth to get in before the deadline.
Yet, there are some here who continue to take the MSM at their word. Disgusting.
You said it. Amen! If you get some time take a look at the duly approved authorized genuine MSM source shown at post 245 followed by Ace of Spade's take on the state of MSM journalismTM.
Ping
Very, very stupid.
The evidence supports this belief, as their subscribers are stupid enough to use Rhoiders as a news service.
Why do you ask?
Sorry for any dup ~pings~
Hey, it took 8 hours for the bodies to thaw.
Can't collapse a building on frozen bodies, they'll shatter...
Thanks for the PING. I've been all over the Haditha fraud for many weeks. As has our own Sam Hill, Delacoert, Velveeta, Backhoe, and a few others.
Just checked DU and no mention of the fake photo. Not a surprise.
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Consumers of news now understand that, as Eastland says, "News is a thing made, a product, and that media with certain beliefs and values once made the news and then presented it in authoritative terms, as though beyond criticism. Thus did Walter Cronkite famously end his newscasts, 'And that's the way it is.' That way, period."
When, after the misreported Tet offensive of 1968 (a U.S. military victory described as a crushing defeat), Cronkite declared Vietnam a "stalemate," he spoke, as Mindich says, to "a captive audience." Nearly 80 percent of television sets in use at the dinner hour were tuned to one of the three network newscasts, and Cronkite had the largest share.
If that had been the broadcast marketplace in 2004, John Kerry would be president: The three networks reported the Swift boat veterans attacks on Kerry only after coverage of the attacks by cable news and talk radio forced Kerry to respond. The networks were very interested in charges pertaining to a Vietnam-era story about George W. Bush's alleged dereliction of National Guard duties -- until bloggers, another manifestation of new, small and nimble media, shredded it.
Gn 22:17 your descendants shall take possession of the gates of their enemies
Anyone With A Modem Can Report On The World
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[Hillary Clinton] said, "We're all going to have to rethink how we deal with the Internet. As exciting as these new developments are, there are a number of serious issues without any kind of editing function or gatekeeping function."
Newspaper sale$ decline should be blamed on the Journos
. . .
People who work at journalism full time ought to be able to do a better job of it than people for whom it is a hobby. But that's not going to happen as long as we "professional" journalists ignore stories we don't like and try to hide our mistakes. We think of ourselves as "gatekeepers." But there is not much future in being a gatekeeper when the walls are down.
LOL LOL Too funny, all thats missing is Godzilla.
Reuters somehow totally forgot how that famous post here on FR by Buckhead kicked off one of the biggest scandals in journalism history--the scandal that brought down Mary Mapes and Dan Rather of CBS News. The MSM's elitist attitude still cannot comprehend how the modern Internet can facilitate very fast fact-checking, something that can cause no end of grief to the Left (and you wonder why the Dixie Chicks lost their primary audience after Natalie Maines' ill-advised remark back in 2003).
damn straight...
sorry if this has been posted -
Story made YNet
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3286966,00.html
Reuters admits altering Beirut photo
Reuters withdraws photograph of Beirut after Air Force attack after US blogs, photographers point out 'blatant evidence of manipulation.' Reuters' head of PR says in response, 'Reuters has suspended photographer until investigations are completed into changes made to photograph.' Photographer who sent altered image is same Reuters photographer behind many of images from Qana, which have also been subject of suspicions for being staged
Yaakov Lappin
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Implying that the rescuer might have been sucking on it?
Why all the preoccupation with that photo?
It is a horrible, macabre scene.
When we "cry wolf" and obsess over something that we have no proof is fake,
don't we risk diminishing our credibility when we point out actual forgeries?
You're right. The doctored photo depicts what look to be several sources of thick, black, acrid smoke; the "real" photo indicates only one source of smoke that looks like it's coming from a burning building, not an out-of-control oil fire. It's the difference between precision bombing and laying waste to a city. Propaganda, pure and simple, if terribly done.
I posted on the Rather thread, so I will post here too.
Amen! IMHO Ace of Spades nails it:
The whole MSM has some explaining to do. But they will do no explaining, and ask no questions, and embargo the story, because they cannot admit that they have cut foreign budgets to such a degree [that] they now rely almost entirely on local stringers of questionable objectivity and integrity for the bulk of their foreign reportage.
Perhaps we would all know German as a first or second language by now...
Thought ya'll might be interested in an update on Kevin Sites' reporting. You remember Kevin Sites, doncha?
Killings at Qana
But five children are still in one of the ambulances at the scene of the attack. A Red Cross worker opens the doors to reveal the bodies of five boys aged from five to fifteen. He pulls the blankets back to show the bruised and dusty corpses.
He picks up the body of the smallest one and holds it up for a second to show us. The boy is dressed in green shorts and white sleeveless t-shirt. Aside from the white dust that covers his body, there are no signs of the blast trauma and falling concrete that likely killed him. His eyes are closed and the only evidence of his violent death seems to be the slight gritting of his teeth.
By early afternoon a contingent of United Nations soldiers from China arrives in Qana with a large backhoe and together with a bulldozer from the Lebanese Army begins digging through the piles of concrete and twisted rebar.
It is a slow process. Two stories of the three-story building have collapsed, leaving a twisted mess that is not easily pulled apart. After two hours of digging there's still no sign of any more bodies.
This house was only one of many buildings bombed in Qana overnight, with no word on casualties from other locations. But in driving to the location I could see huge swaths of destruction which included everything from residences and a supermarket to a small mosque.
Under a pile of rubble at the mosque is a small sign of Qana's life before the bombing: a note handwritten on white lined paper. My translator reads portions of it aloud. It is a letter from a woman telling a man that she doesn't love him because he has not shown her respect. The letter and emotions conveyed in it, would, in another time, seem quite important, at least to the two people involved, but here in this dust-laced and possibly irreparably broken place, it is just another thing scattered on the streets.
I ask Abbas Kassab why the Israelis would strike Qana so severely — what tactical or strategic value it might have. But he is adamant that there is none — that Hezbollah, or the resistance, as the Lebanese call it, does not operate in the village.
"There's no resistance here. Israel is lying. There are no resistance fighters here. Children are playing; there are no resistance at all," he says. "There was a mother with a seven-month-old child that was killed. Was she a resistance fighter?"
Israel argues otherwise. Israeli officials were quick to voice their regret for the loss of civilian life but placed the blame on Hezbollah, saying that Hezbollah had been using positions around Qana, including near the buildings targeted, to launch rockets at Israel. Hezbollah has launched daily rocket barrages toward Israel during the current crisis, killing 18 Israeli civilians, according to news reports. It was Hezbollah's cross border raid into Israel on July 12 that sparked the current crisis.
The contradictory claims mirror other conflict scenes I have visited in the south of Lebanon this week, with people on the street arguing strenuously that Hezbollah had no presence in the area, and Israel claiming otherwise. On Wednesday, at the scene of a bombed apartment building in Tyre, I met a man who told me that the area had nothing to do with Hezbollah, but press reports said the building was the office of Hezbollah's southern Lebanon commander, Sheik Nabil Kaouk.
I ask Abbas Kassab who he blames for the bombing and death in Qana, and the answer I receive is similar to what I have heard elsewhere on the streets of Lebanon:
"America," he says. "Only America."
"Why?"
"America gave the green light for Israel to do this. Israel can't shoot one bullet without America's permission. America is responsible. There are not resistance fighters here. Only kids playing. Even if there were, why would they kill civilians? Let them fight in Bint Jbail where the resistance is. Let Israel go to Bint Jbail and see what they can do."
Meanwhile, five hours of digging has turned up no new bodies and both the Lebanese Army and the U.N. contingent know they're running out of time. There's only an hour of daylight left to dig.
Now villagers in Qana tell them there are only five people that are unaccounted for, not the 25 or 30 they originally thought. The excavation teams give up the dig at about 7:30 p.m. Sunday. A beautiful soft dusk falls over the surrounding hills and valleys, a sharp contrast to the death and destruction they have been knee-deep in for more than 12 hours.
Despite what has happened here, Ghazi Adibbi says he and the others that are left will likely stay in the village. What has happened has hardened his heart about the conflict.
"We are resisting. We don't want a cease-fire anymore," he says. "We want the resistance to bomb Israel every day."
Note: This dispatch has been amended to reflect the dispute over the location where Jesus is said to have performed his first miracle.
http://hotzone.yahoo.com/b/hotzone/blogs8012
North does something similar using a different picture of "white teeshirt guy" and "green helmet guy" over at Qana - the director's cut.
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