Friday, August 25, 2006

Photojournalists Fight Back

When a photojournalist sees such blatant lies, and using photography as its tool, it is incumbent on other photographers to take the rotten apples to task. This well reasoned, devastating, take-down of a story you probably heard of will make you wonder at what level our journalists and photojournalists and editors are operating. even a cursory glance at the top of the ambulance clearly shows it could not have been a missle. No way.

So why was it photographed and reported that way? Have our press become so incredibly lazy that people can pull abandoned ambulances with no smoke or fire damage out and claim that it was a missle with complete immunity from questioning? Really.

Sheesh....
The Red Cross Ambulance Incident: "On the night of July 23, 2006, an Israeli aircraft intentionally fired missiles at and struck two Lebanese Red Cross ambulances performing rescue operations, causing huge explosions that injured everyone inside the vehicles. Or so says the global media, including Time magazine, the BBC, the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times and thousands of other outlets around the world. If true, the incident would have been an egregious and indefensible violation of the Geneva Convention, and would constitute a war crime committed by the state of Israel.

But there's one problem: It never happened. "

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