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COMMENTS:
But hey, they're getting better. They realized they're no good at photoshop so they're using real photos and editing the caption.
I wonder how long until we start seeing grainy black and white photos of bombed out german citizens with captions like 'the Israeli offensive against lebanon has left the country in ruins'.
huh?
by mojo on Wed Aug 09, 06 12:21pm
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Tsk ... herz, we really should call you Kreskin, since you can paranormally divine motivation.
The AP doesn't have any ideologic stake in this -- if anything, they are guilty of enabling Bush and the corrupt GOP.
If there was a duplication, I'd think 'error' before I thought 'devious Liberal media attempt to subvert Our Glorious Leader (tm).'
Nice to see your newfound interest in integrity, herz. Now if we can only make that 'objective' ...
Ahem cath, it's a matter of them not bothering to check the facts before they present a story.
Someone sends them a picture with a sad tagline and they run it. No quetions asked.
Surely you can see the problem with that, even if they do happen to support your side in this conflict?
You see I believe they should check these things, before running them. Because right now their trackrecord on accurate reporting looks more like what you'd expect from the soviet pravda rather than what a free news agency ought to be putting out there.
You will agree that checking facts is important before posting a news article? And that so far they haven't been doing a superb job of it?
And I'm shocked at your new-found disinterest in integrity. Certainly false or misleading stories shouldn't be tolerated? Why the sudden apathy?
mojo; go to the link in the article.
If you believe the articles this same woman had her house destroyed multiple times by the israelis, which seems a little unrealistic to me.
herz: I am in complete agreement that AP and ALL news organizations need to do a better job of checking facts and checking copy (text and photos). You have no argument from me, there.
And the use of war photos as 'stock footage' is not acceptable, if it was a conscious decision.
Doesn't it make you think they might have been staged? Either that or the woman owns several homes or has a twin with the same scar on her cheek. Perhaps Hezbollah is getting lazy with their propaganda campaign.
Silly towelheads. Prapaganda is for Jews.
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"And I'm shocked at your new-found disinterest in integrity."
herzie must be jealous. He's always had a disinterest in integrity. At least when it applies to him, Bush, neo-cons, Republicans, Karl Rove, and others of his ilk.
yeah well,whats ur point,Herzog?
There are hundreds of families who lost their homes,and hundreds got killed.No photo can capture the misery the Lebanese are going through!
Just coz of this one photographer,what are we supposed to do,feel sympathy for the IDF and ignore its Nazi(yes N.A.Z.I) actions?Come on!
No drink, we're supposed to now question the images and stories the media tries to pass off as true.
Either by incompetence or bias they've been doing this alot lately, four major errors in 2 days. This doesn't speak well of them either way. So we ought to be a little more weary of their reporting.
So that next time an Israeli bomb falls and they immediately come up with '400 civilians killed, most of them children' without even bothering to send someone to check it out (hezbollah has them on speeddial and simply writes their stories for them) we should be a little more skeptical than usual.
herz: Incompetence and greed. And it isn't just Reuters that is doing it. The state of Journalism in this country has sunk like a rock ever since it devolved into 'just a Business.'
And we should all question everything we hear. It has been well- establishe dthat Journalists are just not doing their jobs, these days.
For example, in the senate hearings, Don Rumsfeld made this bald- faced assertion, when Hillary accused him of giving falsely optimistic assessments about Iraq, over the years:
Senator, I don't think that's true. I've never painted a rosy picture. I've been very measured in my words. And you'd have a dickens of a time trying to find instances where I've been excessively optimistic.
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Even though I could refute that bald- faced lie with about 3 minutes on Google, I am not aware of a single News agency that did so.
So you are right herz ... whether through laziness or whatever, we should never just accept what the Media tells us.
But don't EVEN try to make out as if the Right is the poor victim.
Cath: failing to go on the offensive against republican politicians is hardly the same as setting up a fake photo-op to make Israel look bad wouldn't you say? Omitting something is bad, but not anywhere near as wrong as the bald faced lies they've been aggressively pushing on us.
For instance, would you say that taking a picture of a burning landfill and trying to pass it off as the bombed out rubble of lebanons capital after an israeli attack is better or worse than failing to research every comment a politician has ever made and offering a rebuttal to his speech?
Voted : Maybe the AP didn't check their sources as well as they should have . ..
I don't think this one was bias. Probably just incompetence... but the possibility of bias still exists nonetheless I guess.
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