To the Left, which includes the liberal media, "this site" is already "discredited". It has never been credible as far as they're concerned. Your faux concern is not convincing.
We're at war with the Left. Registered isn't causing us to "lose" the war by creating a fake pic, whether he did it on purpose or by accident. They got taken, conned, rooked. It's certainly not his fault that a bunch of retards can't source it for themselves, and are embarrassed to admit that they rely on unknown Internet sources to provide their content.
The other side don't want to focus on the Kerry-Fonda pic, so like you--one excuse is as good as another when it comes to redirecting the conversation. The Internet is no more reliable or unreliable than it was before this fake photo turned up. It's only an issue because it's another axe to grind against us on the Right.
Everyone knows you can't trust what you read or see on the Internet without verifying it.
Hope this helps!
Of course what you posted isn't true. The proof is that the real Kerry Fonda photograph and its concomitant photo was picked up--even by the NY Times. And that story orginated here.
John Kerry At Valley Forge (With Jane Fonda)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1074369/posts Are you arguing that FR doesn't have to worry about being credible? That it is just a chat site? Maybe you're right. But others here seem to have higher hopes for it.
Maybe it is a waste of time to post things like the story above or the material about how Turnipseed was misreported, which helped to turn around that story. But even those two stories--and others like them--have shown that things posted here can have an impact, even on the leftwing media.
Again, this hoax just set the effort back. But I can see how that wouldn't concern you.