Posted on 08/18/2006 7:49:13 AM PDT by abb
"I'm not sure, however, if the craft I love is being murdered, committing suicide, or both. "
Photojournalists committed suicide by whoring itself out to anti American and anti Israel propaganda outlets. They thought that we would just sit there and believe the pictures as proof of what was going on.
Believing what you see is no longer valid.
They are no more jounalists than I am.
He skips around the core issue with this sentence. This isn't Stockholm Syndrome. IMO most of the photogs and editors involved here actively side with Hiz and the Palestinians over Israel. They are not upset that they were spreading propaganda, only that they got caught. Otherwise, they would be willing to air out the truth like this guy suggested.
Is she related to Bagdad Bob? (remember him?) The similarity is eerie.
LOL - The MSM is Nixon!!!
A lot of us wonder is she is really a she.
You never know - but then you know how the Mooslums feel about gays and transexuals -- they will be punished with the greatest of punishment, they say.
To the contrary, republican government is based on the premise that the median voter will be cautious enough, often enough, to keep republican government from being as bad as aristocratic government.The wisest and most cautious of us all frequently gives credit to stories which he himself is afterwards both ashamed and astonished that he could possibly think of believing . . .It is acquired wisdom and experience only that teach incredulity, and they very seldom teach it enough. - Adam Smith
For future reference:
The Reutergate scandal and issues with Beirut Photos in general.
There are 3 areas of concern: 1) Staging of photos and; 2) Doctoring of photos and, 3) Misleading Captions
Links are in chronological order.
RECAPS:
Excellent Video recap by aish.com
Excellent Video recap by Michelle Malkin
CNN's Anderson Copper Admits to seeing staging plus Germany TV video catches Green Helmet in the Act
The Corruption of the Media A lengthy, comprehensive review of Fauxtography at Qana by EU Referendum
ISSUE 1, STAGING OF PHOTOS:
"Milking it" (Critical look at Qana photos)
"Hezbollywood? Evidence mounts that Qana collapse and deaths were staged"
"Who is this Man?" (Green Helmet)
"The truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth" (Green Helmet & Co, show up in Tyre)
"Reuters calls the doctor, take 2" (Powerline blog exposes yet another suspect group of photos same damage reported as new 12 days apart)
"Extreme Makeover - Beirut Edition" (Drinking from Home exposed more photos. This time, the same woman is shown losing her home first in Southern Beirut on 7/22 and then in the "suburbs of Beirut" on 8/5)
"Shaking the Dead" (Confederate Yankee shows staged photos of a "rescue worker" grasping a hand protruding from the rubble for both Reuters and AP)
"The Passion of the Toys" (Slublog has a collection of all the posed stuffed animals among the ruble)
"Lights, Camera, Action!" ICRC Posing with bodies
Green Helmet the movie director [Germany's NDR busts him in the act]
ISSUE 2, DOCTORING OF PHOTOS
Little Green Footballs uncovered an obviously doctored photo by Hajj (Beirut Smoke)
It was quickly picked up here on FR
Reuters admits the first photo (Beirut smoke) was doctored and suspended Hajj
A second doctored photo (F16) was identified by Jawa
ISSUE 3: MISLEADING CAPTIONS:
Aww, glad you liked that Grampa Dave!!
My favorite picture and caption to capture this whole sorry episode follows:
And the results have been devastating: news photos and video shown to be miscaptioned, radically altered, or staged (and worse, re-staged) for the camera.
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Now the strategy becomes clear. Round the corner and on top of the rise formed by "Stretcher Alley" is the "fiercely competitive" media, coralled like sheep in a pen, waiting for the next photo-opportunity to be presented to them. And Hezbollah is about to lay on the performance of a lifetime, a human interest story starring "Green Helmet and "White Tee-shirt" in a bravura display of raw emotion.
News picture-making media organizations have two paths of possible response to this unnerving new situation. First, they can stonewall, deny, delete, dismiss, counter-slur, or ignore the problem. To some extent, this is what is happening now and, ethical consideration aside, such a strategy is the practical equivalent of taking extra photos of the deck chairs on the Titanic.
The Corruption of the Media Part 1 - Introduction
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If this is worrying enough, of greater concern has been the response of the media and, in particular the news agencies which employed many of the photographers at Qana. Fronted initially by the Kathleen Carroll, senior vice president and executive editor for Associated Press Associated Press, they issued an early denial, without addressing any of the substantive issues we raised. Other media outlets have since joined the fray, including The Guardian and The Daily Telegraph, through its web site editor.
Their tactics have been both predictable and wearyingly familiar. Instead of addressing our substantive points, they have concentrated on details, picking on our errors and false starts, arguing that such flaws irredeemably damage our case. Others have branded us "right-wing", "pro-Israeli" or simply "conspiracy theorists", as if that could explain away the evidence we have gathered.
. . .
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
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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.
It seems odd to find a journalism school professor who is up to speed on this stuff. I am more accustomed to J school profs who are unapologetic lefty propagandists, intent on teaching their students how to "make a difference" by lying for liberalism.
I hope Perlmutter has tenure.
PTM thanks for posting your excellent documentation re Fauxtography and staging in Lebanon.
If you want to be pinged in our ongoing bulletins on MSM woes, let me know.
Abb is our main bird dog, and he posts these great threads about the death throes of the MSM.
I had requests to add Beer Guy to my faux montage of pictures from Lebanon, and your latest one added Beer Guy and the worthless Murtha.
You are doing some really creative work.
Grampa Dave, definitely add me to your ping list.
Check out this piece of fauxtography when you get a chance:
http://www.snappedshot.com/index.php?/archives/57-When-is-a-man,-more-than-a-man.html
To the hard core Watch the MSM die group, this is an introduction to FR's PajamaTruthMafia, who has done a great job of documenting the Fauxtography and staging photos during the recent war in Lebanon. PTM would like to be on our hard core ping list re MSM Woes.
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Thank you so much Grampa Dave, I appreciate the compliment!
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