[Miss Marple]

You know the old saying..."A picture is worth 1000 words?"

Well, to most of the public photographers and reporters are BOTH journalists. (The news agency always tags the name of the paper or agency to the photo, which is good.)

Sooo, yes, many of the stories are faked, but showing a faked picture makes the point for us far easier than pointing out the errors and lies in a story. It's right there where anyone in the public can understand it...and understand it quickly.

It's going to be a lot easier to convince people of the bias in the media with these pictures. They have shot themselves in the foot once again. HA!

[pissant]

Agreed. It's important. But so is FR, Newsbusters, Talk Radio and the blogs pointing out the daily malfeasance of the written and broadcast news. It's a fight we are winning, slowly, as the MSM is continuing to lose all credibility.

[Milhous]

You know the old saying..."A picture is worth 1000 words?"

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.

Qana - the director's cut

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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.