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Kedikat -> RE: British foil bomb plot? (8/11/2006 1:54:37 AM)
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ORIGINAL: Mercnbeth
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Having seen the devastation being caused by the U.S. in Iraq from many, many sources I have my own sense of what has to be true.
Chain,
Maybe that's the problem. Are you using Reuters for your visual sense? Seems like they do some "enhancing" and "expansion" in their visuals. Like the death count from those links you provided.
And how about that. That other bastion of "right wing" news CBS is also mentioned. I'd forgotten about the faked memo. Perhaps you need to expand your 'sense' sources.
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This Reuters photograph shows blatant evidence of manipulation. Notice the repeating patterns in the smoke; this is almost certainly caused by using the Photoshop “clone” tool to add more smoke to the image. (Hat tip: Mike.)
It’s so incredibly obvious, it reminds me of the faked CBS memos. Smoke simply does not contain repeating symmetrical patterns like this, and you can see the repetition in both plumes of smoke. There’s really no question about it.
But it’s not only the plumes of smoke that were “enhanced.” There are also cloned buildings. Link to Pictures and story: http://littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/?entry=21956_Reuters_Doctoring_Photos_from_Beirut&only
Commentary on this issue from the Boston Herald (Another "right wing" mouth-piece! [sm=biggrin.gif])
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Hezbollah also knows that people see what they want to see. That would explain why, as these blogs and others have pointed out, different news photographers who arrived at Qana hours apart, have similar photos of the same bodies being carried out of the wreckage and loaded onto ambulances. Photos of the dead are important. People around the world need to know about the realities of war, no matter how they feel about the justification of a particular war. In America, police, medics and firefighters usually shield the dead from the view of news cameras whenever possible. But it would appear that Hezbollah, or worse, Lebanese rescue workers, decided the best use of a dead child was to be dragged around for propaganda purposes. Source: http://news.bostonherald.com/editorial/view.bg?articleid=152077&srvc=home
I do agree that news be it left center or right is getting progressively poorer in quality and facts. I have to sift through multiple sources and go back again later after it has been vetted by other sources to get any kind of good fact.
Even when it sets with my views I am suspicious and wait and cross the story with other sources. It gets harder all the time. Any real depth to so many of the stories takes weeks to come out.
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