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In case any of you missed the fauxtography scandal, get caught up

I haven't been doing much blogging lately, and I've been especially light on politics and world events, but the recent fauxtography scandal is just too good to miss. What is fauxtography? Well, while the recent fighting between Hizbollah and Israel has been heating up, our media has been willing pawns of propaganda. Major media outlets have already proved themselves willing to suspend any sense of disbelief and be directed to staged atrocities by questionable organizations, but now they've added running photoshopped images, staged/posed photos, even photos of "dead" people who were clearly alive in other shots.

Here is an excellent 2-minute video summary of all the different issues that have come up lately with photos - if you skip over everything else in this post - watch this video. It will catch you up on everything you need to know. For a more in-depth analysis of the different types of photographic fraud, see this post at zombietime. Wizbang has a link to a story on how Hizbollah intimidates journalists. And lastly, here's a video showing "Green Helmet" as he has been called by bloggers - a PR flack / propaganda minister for Hizbollah - directing camera crews on how to get the best shot of a poor little boy's dead body (h/t WorldMagBlog). If you are at all sensitive to this, don't watch. It churns the stomach to see some one so crassly use a little boy as though he was some movie prop.

This scandal is big, and it touches a ton of major media outlets - Reuters, AP, New York Times, U.S. News and World Report. A couple of years ago, we never would have known the difference. But the blogs have been quite successful at dogging the MSM for a few years now, and they are tearing this apart. It's been a long time since I trusted anything I heard in the news, but this is is accelerating their credibility decline at an exponential pace.

Posted: Fri - August 11, 2006 at 11:35 PM | | | | | | |

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