Unluckiest woman in Lebanon

How could Reuters and/or AP prevented this fraud from happening?

If Hezbollah's PR wing is that organized, it wouldn't be difficult to put one over on the western news agencies.

 

Their pictures are worthless if they aren't legit. If the pajama guys can figure it out, Reuters should be able to as well. Jeez, its only their reputations on the line.

 

good question, inky.

I see the photos and the staging and the manipulation and it's not hard to see why so many think their is a bias and prejudice in the media when they don't realize the photos are from freelancers who have unknown motives. It's clear there is some serious progoganda being sold to the major news organizations. It's got to be close to impossible to tell what's staged and what's not. But I'd automatically be suspicious of any photo with squeaky clean toys and 'dead' people at the site of a bombing. I'd also have a policy of not paying for pictures of weeping women with their hands in the air.

 

I'm just saying, it's not so much a black mark on Reuters and AP as it is a sign that Hezbollah's PR wing is very, very good.

 

That's been the MO is Hezbollah, the PLO and pretty much every other terrorist organization. They play the sympathy for the poor human shields card quite well. And, unfortunately, the AP, Reuters and others are seemingly happy to enable them.

 

And it's not like she's overacting at all in the second photo.

She looks like someone who didn't make the cut for SNL or MAD TV.

 

The U.S. Military isn't above this kind of thing, either. You'da thought Jessica Lynch escaped from her captors with a Bowie knife clenched in her teeth and guns ablazing by their original story.

 

Without a doubt, you are correct. Gullibility seems to be a job requirement to be an editor in too many places.

 

First of all, the original Reuters scandal was making smoke darker in a picture. The guy got fired -- as he should have been -- but to conclude from that that every photo we see that discomfits "our" side is doctored or fake or the result of bias is to ignore some pretty heavy ordnance dropped on Lebanon over the past month.

 

And of course this wasn't staged: