Tuesday, June 08, 2010

Media Photoshopping a War

Reuters Caught Cropping Flotilla Photos

The way Reuters cropped the photos depicted practically all the terrorists without weapons. But bloggers, such as Charles Johnson at Little Green Footballs, caught on when a Turkish newspaper posted the full pictures. And, lo and behold, once the full photos were shown, it appears that these so called "peace activists" are nothing of the sort. The photos show wounded Israeli soldiers being attacked by knife-wielding thugs, with their lives clearly at risk.
I guess because it would fit my perception of him, I at first read this to mean that Sir Charles was on the Mavi Marmara.  Amazing how brazen the media is.  And they want to tax Bloggers to subsidize them? 

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

It may be that Charles Johnson has largely gone over to the dark side for reasons that escape me, but in this case, he deserves kudos, not ridicule.

Anonymous said...

WTF! It's hard to fathom Israeli Commando's getting overpowered by "Peace Activists" in the first place.
Makes my blood boil.
RAK

DougM said...

As the man said:
Reuters, the Helen Thomas of news organizations.

Gayle Miller said...

In addition, it has now been revealed that some 40 members of the "peace keeping force" were members of Al Queda and were shepherded below before the boarding began!

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