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FAUX-TOGRAPHY A CRYING SHAME (Pali woman poses in front of 2 different destroyed "homes")
NY Post ^ | 8/10/06

Posted on 08/10/2006 8:17:04 AM PDT by presidio9

Is this wailing woman from Hezbollah central casting? These pictures - taken nearly two weeks apart and which some observers say seem staged - show an unidentified woman wearing all black, raising her hands to the sky as she stands in front of different scenes of devastation, apparently in the same neighborhood.

The first image, by Reuters photographer Issam Kobeisi, is dated July 22, and the caption reads, "A Lebanese woman wails after looking at the wreckage of her apartment in a building, that was demolished by the Israeli attacks in southern Beirut."

The second picture, by Associated Press lensman Hussein Malla, is dated Saturday and is captioned: "A Lebanese woman reacts to the destruction after she came to inspect her house in the suburbs of Beirut, Lebanon."

The BBC online used the AP photo of the woman but later pulled it after getting e-mail complaints.

"We weren't in a position to get to the bottom of this immediately ourselves so we decided to update the picture with a different, more recent image," said BBC Web editor Steve Herrmann.

A photo editor at AP said: "I don't know if we could even tell if the picture was the same or just similar." Samantha Topping, a spokesperson for Reuters, would only say, "We don't pose photos."

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; Israel; Miscellaneous; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: bombmagnet; fakebutaccurate; fauxtography; mediajihad; mediapropaganda; mohamedanmedia; poselims; veilwoman
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AP 08/10/06 "Northern Beiruit"

Reuters 07/22/06 "Southern Beiruit"

1 posted on 08/10/2006 8:17:04 AM PDT by presidio9
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Well, they're already busted because that first photo is not from today (August 10). I first saw it here on Monday.


2 posted on 08/10/2006 8:19:18 AM PDT by jdm
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3 posted on 08/10/2006 8:19:40 AM PDT by sageb1 (This is the Final Crusade. There are only 2 sides. Pick one.)
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To: presidio9
A photo editor at AP said: "I don't know if we could even tell if the picture was the same or just similar." Samantha Topping, a spokesperson for Reuters, would only say, "We don't pose photos."

True enough, your Hiz buddies do the staging.

4 posted on 08/10/2006 8:20:22 AM PDT by dirtboy (Why does Israel take border security seriously but we do not, when Islamists wish us both harm?)
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To: presidio9
I tell ya - if she ever shows up in front of my house - this bomb magnet will cause its destruction...
5 posted on 08/10/2006 8:20:27 AM PDT by 2banana (My common ground with terrorists - They want to die for Islam, and we want to kill them.)
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To: presidio9

The Academy nomination for Best Supporting Hellzbolla Actress In a Drama Series....


6 posted on 08/10/2006 8:20:36 AM PDT by TexasCajun
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To: presidio9

Samantha Topping, a spokesperson for Reuters, would only say, "We don't pose photos."

There go those dang lying eyes of mine again.


7 posted on 08/10/2006 8:20:51 AM PDT by L98Fiero (I'm worth a million in prizes.)
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To: jdm
I first saw it here on Monday.

My bad. the first photo WAS from Monday, not today. My date is incorrect.

8 posted on 08/10/2006 8:20:59 AM PDT by presidio9 (“The term ‘civilians’ does not exist in Islamic religious law.”)
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To: presidio9; dead
The poster 'dead' photoshopped that picture three whole days ago. No way is it from 8/10 (today). The AP is claiming this?
9 posted on 08/10/2006 8:21:13 AM PDT by jdm
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What lousy luck -- she moves from her first devastated home, only to have her new house destroyed by those Zionists...


10 posted on 08/10/2006 8:22:05 AM PDT by mikrofon ("Veil Woman")
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To: presidio9

Okay, got it. Thanks for the correction.


11 posted on 08/10/2006 8:22:24 AM PDT by jdm
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To: jdm

RTFT.

Talk about laziness. It only had ten responses when you posted.


12 posted on 08/10/2006 8:23:20 AM PDT by presidio9 (“The term ‘civilians’ does not exist in Islamic religious law.”)
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"We don't pose photos."

Of course you do.
You are The Associalistic Press ain't ya?
13 posted on 08/10/2006 8:23:54 AM PDT by Jameison
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OK. Everything seems to be in order now...


14 posted on 08/10/2006 8:24:14 AM PDT by presidio9 (“The term ‘civilians’ does not exist in Islamic religious law.”)
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To: presidio9
Posted in other forms but that is OK.

This stuff cannot be posted too much or talked about too much

The MSM still ignores and denies the huge level of outright propagandistic manipulation on the part of Hezbollah (and Palestinians in other circumstances) wherein overt fraud, simply making things up and manufacturing false propaganda pictures.

Our major media have fallen for these cheap tricks for decades and presented this overt propaganmda as truth and presented manufactured news or news photos as truth. This is probably done out of incommptetence but also importantly because the purveyors of our major news media accept and appreciate the views being dissemiunated with this propaganda.

The former monopoly on information is gone so we can now inform large numbers of peoploe about the lies and propaganda of the main stream major corporate media in very concrete documented real time ways such as this.

15 posted on 08/10/2006 8:25:01 AM PDT by tallhappy (Juntos Podemos!)
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This is irresponsible journalistic propaganda, pure and simple.


16 posted on 08/10/2006 8:25:20 AM PDT by sageb1 (This is the Final Crusade. There are only 2 sides. Pick one.)
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"We weren't in a position to get to the bottom of this immediately ourselves so we decided to update the picture with a different, more recent image," said BBC Web editor Steve Herrmann.

Weren't in a position to get to the bottom of this - my foot. This terrorist-enabler was merely hoping they could swap the picture out without having to explain anything.

17 posted on 08/10/2006 8:25:36 AM PDT by LibSnubber (Liberal democrats are domestic terrorists)
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18 posted on 08/10/2006 8:25:41 AM PDT by Alouette (Psalms of the Day: 79-82)
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To: tallhappy
but that is OK.

Thanks for your persission, but next time should I send you a FReepmain before posting, just to be on the safe side?

19 posted on 08/10/2006 8:26:03 AM PDT by presidio9 (“The term ‘civilians’ does not exist in Islamic religious law.”)
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To: sageb1
"Ridi Pagliacco!"
20 posted on 08/10/2006 8:26:09 AM PDT by massgopguy (massgopguy)
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