Wednesday, August 09, 2006

Ratherization of AP & Reuters?


A woman has made two appearances in photographs used by the Associated Press and Reuters, allegedly wailing over the destruction of her Beirut home. US bloggers have however noticed that photographs were taken two weeks apart from each other, according to times stamps on the images, and that the photographs were taken in different locations..."AP Beirut photo faces questions, Yaakov Lapin

First, it was the LA Times with creative 'shopping of pictures of the Iraq war. Then, it was Reuters last week. Now it's AP. Is Dan Rather a consultant for those services, or is this just the tip of the iceberg?

We're not sure here, but it seems that almost every story of horrors perpetrated by the Israelis turns out a week or two later to have been staged, 'shopped, or made up. This is not unique in war. It's even the subject of parody, as in the scene were Copolla appears onscreen as he directs combat soldiers in how to act properly warlike in Apocalypse Now. What is new is the outright refusal of MSM to broadcast retractions.

Luther

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