Monday, August 07, 2006

I held off on posting today because I like Paige's most recent ones, and I didn't want to push them down just yet. However, I really can't hold on to this gem.

Reuters recently had to pull a photo about the Israel-Lebanon conflict because evidence was pretty clear that it had been doctored. The real gem is that this particular photographer had a pretty bad track record of either being duped or actively using Reuters to spread lies.

To be clear, although this appears to have been the same photographer for Qana, I do believe innocent people died in Qana, and I believe that is a tragedy. I also believe that "rescue workers" took the photo opportunity to parade the dead bodies around for several hours (apparently taking as long as 90 minutes to walk a few yards to the ambulance, and then doing it over again with the same dead body -- and that's not all she wrote). I was relieved when the death toll was halved, from 60 dead to 29. That's still 29 tragedies, but better than 60.

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