Friday, July 28, 2006

Devastated Beirut?

This graphic from Front Page wonderfully illuminates the problems of "news" photography. Truth is made less obvious by careful use of angle and lens, something Soviet propaganda filmmakers discovered eighty years ago, and never more obvious than in the "coverage" of the air war in Lebanon.

Click here to see "devastated" Beirut, that 1% of the city targeted by Israel.

Luther

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