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Monday, July 31, 2006

Seattle Cartoons and Photo Journalism Taking Part in the Next Pallywood Production

(Hat Tip: LGF)
Cox and Forkum have an excellent take on the Seattle Jewish Center shootings in which the Seattle District head of the FBI claimed that the shootings, which resulted in the death of one woman and 3 others in serious conditions, had nothing to do with what's going on in the Middle East.


EU Referendum does an excellent job of creating a time-line by using the photos that were taken of the same bodies over different times of the day. Throught this, he shows how the photo journalists were not just exploiting the dead, but they were also participating in creating Hezbollah propoganda.
Excerpt:
Until recent years, images of civilian casualties in wars often took days to appear in newspapers, but now they can be captured and transmitted around the world to newspaper Web sites, where they are posted immediately, adding to the shock value that sketchy words by reporters often cannot capture. This happened again Sunday morning in the case of the Israeli air strike on the Lebanese village of Qana that left dozens dead, reportedly at least half of them children sleeping in their beds overnight.

The photos, taken by The Associated Press, Reuters, and others, showed bodies in the rubble, or being taken away; survivors digging or wailing…

But the photographers, it seems, are not too fussy about how they go about "adding to the shock value". These two sequences illustrate the extent to which photographers on the scene are prepared to ensure that the "shock value" is maximised.
..... Read the whole article...


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2 Comments:

At 2:52 AM, Blogger Osaid Rasheed said...

Once again : Hizbollah is blamed !!! It is the Hizb to be blamed for everything from now on.. they are the bad guys and your IAF are the angles...
Wake up from your dreams and try to talk logic.

 
At 1:12 PM, Blogger Olah Chadasha said...

Osaid, do you even know how to read???
-OC

 

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