Was the Qana “Massacre” Played Up?
August 1, 2006, 11:03 am |
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By Andrew L. Jaffee
The mainstream media had me going — the AP, Reuters — wringing my hands over the Israeli “massacre” of civilians in the Lebanese village of Qana. But EU Referendum has done some investigative reporting, concluding that news agency photographers helped “milk” the Qana incident for “shock value:”
Certainly, the photographs are distressing, and indeed they are meant to be. …
But the photographers, it seems, are not too fussy about how they go about “adding to the shock value”. These two sequences illustrate the extent to which photographers on the scene are prepared to ensure that the “shock value” is maximised.
Read the whole story and examine the photographs here and here.
Related: Israel, Palestinians, Political Correctness, Media/Blogsphere, Terrorist Groups
August 1st, 2006 at 2:35 pm
Militant Islamic leaders have stated that half of the battle is fought in the media. Of course they deliberatly play things like this up and fabricate things to aid their propagada war. Viet-Nam is the MSM model for all future wars. You can be winning and be conviced you are screwing things up and losing causing you to actually start losing.
The real issue is winning the war everything else should be ignored for the present and dealt with latter. To be distracted by anything other than a focus on victory can only work against victory. When it is over the thing that will matter is whether you win or lose regadless of the details.
August 7th, 2006 at 12:50 pm
[…] Remember the Qana “massacre,” which turned out to be quite questionable — an event trumped up to smear Israel’s right to self-defense (see here and here, also). Lebanon’s prime minister tried some double-speak today, then retracted his statement. And those evil bloggers, e.g., LittleGreenFootballs.com, uncovered another attempt by Reuters to slander Israel — a digitally doctored photo of an IDF bombing run in Beirut. From the Jerusalem Post: In the most recent in a series of online controversies to take on the mainstream media, a series of Web sites discredited a Reuters photograph of the fighting in Lebanon, forcing the news agency to issue an apology and remove the image from their archives. […]