The amazing inside story of fraudulent 'news' photos coming out of Lebanon.

by Aish.com Staff

 

Published: Saturday, August 12, 2006

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Visitor Comments: 20

  • (20) Richard , August 24, 2006

    More Pulitizer Seeking than anything else

    I saw a piece of CNN about the first photo over the weekend. However, I hadn't seen the others. It doesn't surprise me though. Here's the thing though. I worked in the former Yugoslavia in the mid 1990's as a journalist. I saw this kind of thing happen. These photographers aren't as interested in promoting Hezbollah's cause as they are in advancing their own careers. Dramatic pictures like that win prizes and awards, like the Pulitzer. That means big money and even bigger assignments within their own profession. I honestly believe that it is more likely that they are thinking about their own self-interest rather than advancing the greater geo-political cause of Islamic fascism and encouraging anti-Israeli feeling. Granted, that it's a wrong, unwanted, and unnecessary byproduct. It's only I think it is a much more crass, self-centered, personal motivation for financial/professional gain than part of any orchestrated anti-Israeli campaign. At the most fundamental level, it's about journalist ethics, not politics or religion.

  • (19) Gail Johnson , August 23, 2006

    I enjoy your site.

  • (18) Allan O Johnson , August 22, 2006

    Finally some truth!!

  • (17) Michael , August 21, 2006

    Fraud.

    And it is the American liberal media that allows this to happen. The media are not friends of the Israel or the Armed forces of the great U.S.A. fighting a war against terror. The Arabs do no wrong according to the media.

  • (16) Anonymous , August 21, 2006

    BULLSHIT

    1st of all, i believe that REuters is from a country that supported Israel in the war, so i dont think that it will favor lebanese misery over Israelian one. Secondly, those pictures may not be real but that doesnt change the fact that thousands of lebanese died in this war which oustands by far the number of dead in Israel!! not to forget that the South Lebanon is nothing more than ruins today....

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