[meyer]

I don't really care when you first used the phrase. I DO care about someone who brags about it.

I clicked on this thread to read about Reuter's doctoring of images to further their political agenda. I would prefer not to have that reading disrupted by accusations and such as to whether or not a certain freeper coined a specific phrase.

[Nomorjer Kinov]

It's been a great night watching the pajamahadeen at work. FWIW, I did some searching and it appears that the lamestream matter cannot be settled through a normal search. I found a bookmark page which links to the use of the word lamestream in September of 1998 by Ravenstar. The link to the original thread is dead. So is the search.

But I also wanted to remind folks here about the LATimes altering a photo and getting caught. Here is a link the the apology thread where the fake is depicted.

[Alouette]

Green Helmet Guy again:

This is the "corrected" Reuters photo:

The fake Reuters photo is still in rotation: