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Just in case you missed it- more evidence from LGF of fauxtography. This time it's the image of a bloody young girl being carried into a hospital, apparently killed by an Israeli airstrike on Gaza. According to AP and Reuters that is.
Problem is, it's a complete lie. She actually fell from a swing and received her head wounds that way.
Another dead child, more anti-Israeli propaganda.
If you have the stomach for it, you can see just how "civil defence" worker Green Helmet does his job; by parading the body of another child for the world's press to see.
I don't know what's worse- that Green Helmet and his cohorts behave like this or that the Western media laps it all up? If it hadn't been for bloggers like LGF and EU Referendum, do you think that the BBC, CNN or any of the others would have exposed this blatant and disgusting propaganda? Or would they just go on, keeping quiet about the manipulation and happily publishing the results?
Just before I go- the latest from EU Referendum is the practice of actually digging bodies up so that they can be laid out for the photographers. The link he provides is currently down- capacity exceeded. Here's the quote from photographer Bryan Denton-
"i have been witness to the daily practice of directed shots, one case where a group of wire photogs were choreographing the unearthing of bodies, directing emergency workers here and there, asking them to position bodies just so, even remove bodies that have already been put in graves so that they can photograph them in peoples arms. These photographers have come away with powerful shots, that required no manipulation digitally, but instead, manipulation on a human level, and this itself is a bigger ethical problem."
As they say, this is a developing story.
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- The New York Times Scrubs A Story; Fauxtography At Wapo
On Saturday night, I reported on a New York Times story that indicated that the 'vast majority' of the casualties in Gaza on Saturday were Hamas police officers and security men. For those of you who have watched the videos further down the page,...
- 2006 Dishonest Reporter Of The Year Award
Check out the sixth annual recognition of the most skewed and biased coverage of the Mideast conflict. Our Dishonest Reporting awards primarily focus on "fauxtography," the manipulated images, staged photos, and inaccurate captions that repeatedly tainted...
- Aid Worker Duped By Palestinians Speaks Up
This is a tough one to watch. It's heartbreaking. From Justify This: Daryl Jones is an australian volunteer aid worker duped by Palestinian propaganda propaganda to come to their aid but later realized that they were engaged in a bloodlust game to...
- Well Then, How About Deliberately Altering The Facts To Suit A Political Purpose
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Media Manipulation
Just in case you missed it- more evidence from LGF of fauxtography. This time it's the image of a bloody young girl being carried into a hospital, apparently killed by an Israeli airstrike on Gaza. According to AP and Reuters that is.
Problem is, it's a complete lie. She actually fell from a swing and received her head wounds that way.
Another dead child, more anti-Israeli propaganda.
If you have the stomach for it, you can see just how "civil defence" worker Green Helmet does his job; by parading the body of another child for the world's press to see.
I don't know what's worse- that Green Helmet and his cohorts behave like this or that the Western media laps it all up? If it hadn't been for bloggers like LGF and EU Referendum, do you think that the BBC, CNN or any of the others would have exposed this blatant and disgusting propaganda? Or would they just go on, keeping quiet about the manipulation and happily publishing the results?
Just before I go- the latest from EU Referendum is the practice of actually digging bodies up so that they can be laid out for the photographers. The link he provides is currently down- capacity exceeded. Here's the quote from photographer Bryan Denton-
"i have been witness to the daily practice of directed shots, one case where a group of wire photogs were choreographing the unearthing of bodies, directing emergency workers here and there, asking them to position bodies just so, even remove bodies that have already been put in graves so that they can photograph them in peoples arms. These photographers have come away with powerful shots, that required no manipulation digitally, but instead, manipulation on a human level, and this itself is a bigger ethical problem."
As they say, this is a developing story.
- Infidel Bloggers Alliance Prediction For 2009
I agree with Michael's call here, so I'm calling this an official IBA prediction. From Michael Travis: Watching the American MainStreamMedia®, represented by Fox-News, CNN, ABC-NBC-CBS etc. , during these perilous times...has sickened me. As...
- The New York Times Scrubs A Story; Fauxtography At Wapo
On Saturday night, I reported on a New York Times story that indicated that the 'vast majority' of the casualties in Gaza on Saturday were Hamas police officers and security men. For those of you who have watched the videos further down the page,...
- 2006 Dishonest Reporter Of The Year Award
Check out the sixth annual recognition of the most skewed and biased coverage of the Mideast conflict. Our Dishonest Reporting awards primarily focus on "fauxtography," the manipulated images, staged photos, and inaccurate captions that repeatedly tainted...
- Aid Worker Duped By Palestinians Speaks Up
This is a tough one to watch. It's heartbreaking. From Justify This: Daryl Jones is an australian volunteer aid worker duped by Palestinian propaganda propaganda to come to their aid but later realized that they were engaged in a bloodlust game to...
- Well Then, How About Deliberately Altering The Facts To Suit A Political Purpose
There is no graver breach of Reuters standards for our photographers than the deliberate manipulation of an image was the statement of the global picture editor of Reuters as they removed all 920 pictures by Adnan Haj. But the problem is not Hajj, he...