Posted on 11/11/2007 8:58:01 AM PST by StarCMC
A good piece on the media’s complicity with terrorist propaganda, by Richard Landes: Al-Dura and the ‘Public Secret’ of Middle East Journalism.
In the summer of 2006, Reuters News Agency, humiliated when bloggers caught them duped by obvious photographic manipulation, fired both the photographer and the chief of their photographic bureau. They then removed all the photographer’s photos from their news archive. In so doing, they acted decisively in punishing two of the cardinal sins of modern journalism: “creating evidence” and getting duped by created evidence.
These principles – i.e., the ethics of a free press – go so deep, that Westerners apparently have difficulty imagining that others might not share our commitments. Thus few people believe claims that footage of Muhammad al Dura, the twelve year old boy allegedly gunned down by Israelis at Netzarim Junction on September 30, 2000, was staged. Charles Enderlin, the correspondent for France2 who presented the tale to the world, derisively and successfully dismisses such claims as a conspiracy theory as ludicrous as those about 9-11. How absurd: Palestinian journalists would not do such a thing; and if they did, the Western media would catch it. To this day, most journalists still ask, “Who killed al Dura?” not, “Was he killed in the footage we see?”
There’s a reason they are called the “enemedia.” They are the enemy.
They forgot to mention the third: "Don't Get Caught".
BTTT
Yep - thank God that this war has the pajama media to keep them honest.
Maybe most journalists, but not all FReepers.
ML/NJ
Pajamedia at it’s finest...I salute you!! We’ve gotta keep exposing their BS — give no quarter to those who seek to denigrate our troops, their mission OR our country.
New media rocks..
Send Rush the link.
No honest journalist can work in places controlled by the PA, Hamas, or indeed any Islamo-fascist entity, because (1) the will not let you anywhere near the place, or (2) if somehow an honest journalist did manage to get into one of those cesspools the Islamo-fascists will KILL you if you tell the truth. It helps to be a leftist who is eager to produce agit-prop for the Islamo-fascists so that you (as MSM journalist) convince yourself that it’s all in a good cause.
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