How are Fake Pictures Affecting the Israeli-Lebanon Conflict?
Visited 293 Times Published by Rico August 26th, 2006 in Blogging, How, Internet and Video.
I must thank my cousin Nico for bringing this to my attention. Turns out the fake smoke picture wasn’t the only one.
Got this flash presentation from aish.com. I wonder how many lies we’ve believed before the blogosphere came around to pointing out mainstream media’s mistakes.
Many blogs are hardly paragons of journalistic integrity (and for that matter, traditional media publications). But I’m glad that a lot of them have stepped up to provide a more accurate picture (pun intended) of the situation.
Update: Took out the embedded flash presentation, and simply linked to the site. Realized that I was forcing visitors to use more bandwidth than they normally would. Sorry. Also, I’ve added the cool picture.
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6 Responses to “How are Fake Pictures Affecting the Israeli-Lebanon Conflict?”
- 1 Pingback on Aug 27th, 2006 at 8:48 pm
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Oh man - the guy with the cap pretending to be dead is just low. Though as a former journalism student, I can’t say I’m surprised this stuff happens. That’s how it’s been for decades, really.
I don’t even know why all these needs to be staged. I mean, as Betty Nguyen of CNN says about the fake smoke picture, the destruction itself is already pretty dramatic.
Ah, hate to sound cynical here, but really I think that’s just the way Western media is - exacerbating everything, to pull the viewers and readers in.
I mean, which story is likely to affect you the most - the one where 5 people died and 2 buildings were destroyed, or the one where 500 people died, several buildings were burnt to the ground, leaving only clean Mickey Mouse stuffed toys on the ground?
I’m under the impression that all US news shows simply quest for ratings.
Looks like a lot of young Americans are fed up with that. More of them actually learn about current events from “fake” news like The Daily Show and The Colbert Report, instead of mainstream media. Here’s a great quote by The Daily Show’s head writer David Javerbaum: