Media in Lebanon – The fevered manufacture of the liberal agenda

Canada Free Press ^ | 8-8-06 | John Burtis

[veronica]

Lebanon, Reuters, AP, microcosm

There is so much honest news to peddle, I don’t know why the media is offering us so much pure visible tommyrot when it comes to the Israeli attacks, unless they openly favor Hezbollah and have an axe to grind.

We have some pretty compelling evidence that the results of the IDF attack on Qana was a put up job and the media’s trumpeting of it all was excessive and came without any serious investigation of Hezbollah’s claims.

Reuters soon ran into trouble with their sad sorry attempt to peddle additional smoke signals in a photo of Beirut as reality and ended up firing the photographer and removing the photo from their file.

Just when you thought Reuters couldn’t fall any farther into the growing manure pile of media manipulation, the Drinking From Home blog spot, via Lucianne.com, raises further suspicions about the media’s fairness, courtesy of an examination of the sobbing Lebanese woman shown in a series of photographs, where she is shown crying in front of her home (AP), and then wailing in front of the wreckage of her apartment (Reuters), at two different locations ( Click Here ). She’ll be crying again somewhere soon.

[BikerGold]

There is so much honest news to peddle, I don’t know why the media is offering us so much pure visible tommyrot when it comes to the Israeli attacks, unless they openly favor Hezbollah and have an axe to grind.

Which planet were you on, for goodness sakes?!! Hint: election 2nd Hint: in a few months.

[Jameison]

"And the drive by media reports, without the interjection of the slightest caveat or footnote, that every single Lebanese victim is a civilian. "

BINGO!
As as today, the Hizbullah/Reuters/AP/Drive-by media cabal have created more Hizbullah "civillians" than all the fiction created by Baghdad Bob.
Heck, if AP see a dead Hizbullah with an AK-47 in his hands, that guy is still a civilian so far as the AP's Hizbullah minders tell them so.

What a bunch of pathetic, useless waste of oxygen the rabid media is.

[SJackson]

If you'd like to be on this middle east/political ping list, please FR mail me.

High volume. Articles on Israel can also be found by clicking on the Topic or Keyword Israel. also

2006israelwar or WOT

..................

[silentknight]

THE MEDIA MAKES ME SICK.

I am glad they are being exposed by freepers and others.

[MizSterious]

So, a Lebanese woman is trucked around to cry in front of different cameramen from different news agencies at varying locations. Camera men routinely doctor photographs to portray greater damage than there is. Fighter planes are juiced up with more flares than they actually drop. Dead children are passed around, over and over again, in front of the willing dupes in the fourth estate. Heart rending set piece shots, which were obviously set up by the photographer, are quickly gobbled up by our drive by media without a thought to "authenticity," or grounding in "reality."

This paragraph really nails it, but the whole column is well worth the read.