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Morley's post

Eariler I had dismissed Jefferson Morley's rant against charges that "right wing" and pro-Israel bloggers made that the Qana tragedy had been manipulated by the media. I noted that he hadn't even bothered to update his blog to note that the death was somewhat lower than he reported.

I thought that the question had ended there.

When I saw that LGF and others were raising questions about a picture from Beirut, I thought, perhaps they were overstating their case.

But now it appears that the questions need to start. Crossing the Rubicon2 gets first (that I've seen) to a Ynet report that Reuters has pulled the Beirut photograph and suspended the photographer. The photographer, Adnan Hajj, was also one of the photographers at Qana.

I wonder what degree of introspection we'll see from the media. Will they acknowledge that their efforts to present a "balanced" picture where none exists has caused them to become propaganda tools for terrorist organizations or will they retreat to their "fake but accurate" defense. This doesn't just apply to Reuters which has now been caught, but to "respectable" news outlets like the Washington Post and NY Times who do their share of selective interviewing and quoting to create impressions that are just as false as those Beirut pictures.

Also blogging this: A blog for all, Angry in the Great White North and Politechnical.

UPDATE: And if you want to see an impressive deconstruction of the casualty figures in Qana, Maryland Conservatarian goes over what was reported and when. Very methodically he shows that the media were (willfully) given inflated figures even if their source(s) couldn't have known the correct figures.

Technorati tags: Media Bias, Israel, Reuters.