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Pajamahadeen Rule... rise of the New Media
various FR links | 09-17-04 | The Heavy Equipment Guy

Posted on 09/17/2004 2:09:06 PM PDT by backhoe

  The Manifesto of Pukin Dog
 
 The Dawn of New Media
 
 A New Era of Credibility
 
 
A revolution in news
 
 Bloggers knew!
 
 Blogs: Halting the march of the mainstream media  What is happening is that for the first time in decades, if not ever, the power of the mainstream media (MSM) in the United States is being seriously challenged by a mostly ragtag army of outsiders armed with little more than the internet. The age of the blogger is upon us.
 I think of it as a gestalt- the sum of the whole, together, is greater than the parts added separately.
 
 Post 47 and RaTHergate - The story of how CBS was caught perpetrating a hoax on the American People
 
 IUPAT issues apology ( the crying girl )
 Blows the "it was her brother" theory the idjuts  are throwing out there out of the water ... From rintense's original MONSTER thread about this
 
  The Camera Blinks A nation of fact-checkers, a network in denial.  Seen on a blog yesterday:
You can't say 'well, the sentiments were correct.'
That's like saying to the bank, 'Well, he owed me money' after forging a check.
 
  Hayek Smiled: Why Blogging Works
 
 Love Letter to the Blogosphere (Michelle Malkin)
 
 Big Media get smaller - Michael Reagan: The networks' days of dominating America's news are over ... ordinary Americans are more devoted to the facts than Dan Rather and CBS proved to be.
 
 Freepers- Pajamas Up! Stop Congress looting/ price gouging Hurricane Victims!
 
 HELP!!! I need some info on the History of Free Republic!
 
 
Woman wearing 'President Bush You Killed My Son' T-Shirt disrupts first lady's rally  This woman, Sue Niederer, is the same person who confronted Rr. Raoul on one of his Freeps.
Check it out:
http://www.trentonian.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=11197951&BRD=1697&PAG=461&dept_id=44551&rfi=8 Niederer is supposedly a friend of Code Pink, the virulent anti-American group who promotes socialist-communist causes.
 http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&q=Sue+Niederer+&btnG=Google+Search
 Interviews with her via mega LW groups
http://www.indcjournal.com/archives/000585.php

http://pittsburgh.indymedia.org/news/2004/08/15399.php

http://www.notinourname.net/troops/nothing-12feb04.htm

http://www.commondreams.org/headlines04/0314-02.htm
 
  ***ALERT*** Inconsistencies in Marian Carr Knox's Story ***Bloggers Take Note***
 
  MORE RE: MRS. KNOX [Jed Babbin] Tell us about your SON. Who got special treatment, Mrs. Knox?
 This CBS story has become a soap opera
 
 Burkett Admits in February Weblog that He Saw Killian Documents in the Trash
 
 A Media Watershed
 
 Blogs: Halting the march of the mainstream media
 
 
Blessing or Curse? Top Newspaper Editors Examine Blogs' Role in the '60 Minutes' Uproar  Top Newspaper Editors Examine Blogs' Role in the '60 Minutes' Uproar
Its sort of like a mammoth examining the tar in the pit.
 
 BLOGGERS SCORE CBS VICTORY - Hillary's 1998 Take on Internet Bloggers (Future Free Speech Alert)
 
 
 The collapse of America's media elite. What qualifications exactly, to be a journalist? -- even non-lawyer bloggers with superior research skills – think Captain Ed, Tom McGuire and Polipundit – are going to run rings around "pros" who aren't in a hurry to bring down their favored candidate.
 Who are the real journalists? Hugh Hewitt on L.A. Times editor's comments vs. CBS, Rather mess
 
 
 Big media's fall began with the Clinton Regime. Here was the most corrupt liar ever to occupy the office and the Redstream media attacked the truth tellers instead of the crooks. After watching the nightly news most of my life I stopped watching soon after Clinton was elected.
 
 Smart guys ‘in pajamas’ give CBS a black eye
 
 "Men in PJs" CARTOON... protecting America from the scum of the media
 
 "Pajama People" 3 CARTOON graphics.
 



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... Footballs of truth bombs raining down on Reuters : )
441 posted on 08/08/2006 3:34:37 AM PDT by backhoe (Just an Old Keyboard Cowboy, Ridin' the Trakball into the Dawn of Information)
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Palestinian Human Shield Watch

A Palestinian militant fires toward Israeli troops during an arrest raid in the West Bank village of Qabatiyeh near Jenin, Tuesday, Aug. 8, 2006. Four Palestinians were wounded when the army arrested an Al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades militant, Palestinians sources said. The army said two Islamic Jihad militants were arrested during the operation. (AP Photo/Mohammed Ballas)

"Why isn't this the lead story on every major news network?"
The Larger Issue

Richard at EU Referendum has some very apt comments on the Reuters Photoshop Scandal, and the likelihood that photos of the aftermath of the Qana bombing were staged by Hizballah. I’ve tried to bring up this subject in every interview, because I agree with Richard that this practice is much more insidious than clumsy image editing.

If not for the inept Photoshop work of Adnan Hajj, however, the issue of photo staging might never have been raised.

Richmond is asserting that publishing pictures of Hezbolla agents, parading the bodies of dead children in front of complicit photo-journalists for propaganda purposes, is perfectly acceptable as long as the result also matches what his paper wants to convey.

And that is why the crowing of the blogsphere is potentially dangerous. Not for nothing, more than a week after the first doubts about Qana have emerged, is the BBC prepared to entertain the issue. Although it has addressed the Qana issue, it was a brief exposition and the main focus was on “Reutersgate”, which is reflected in the minimal publicity given to the issue in the wider media. If this goes on, then Reuters will become the fall-guy for a problem that, as my colleague rightly points out, is far wider and more serious than doctoring a few photographs.

At the root is that death – or pictures of death - have become a commodity. For Hezbolla, they can be traded for political leverage, for the photo-journalists – those who are not working for Hezbolla – a good “snap” of a dead baby brings the prospect of financial reward, fame and even awards. And, at the top of the heap are the editors and the likes of Shane Richmond, in their air-conditioned offices, thousands of miles away from the action, who see the “pics” merely as illustrations for their productions.

These people have become so degraded, so devoid of humanity and so divorced from civilised mores that pictures of death are assessed on their artistic merit, their emotional power and relevance. Their source and method of procurement are quite irrelevant as long as they are “suitable for purpose”. One can almost imagine a scene where pictures are swapped like cigarette cards of old... “I’ll give you two dead girls for your dead baby, and throw in a dead old man to make up the balance”.

It is that amoral, soulless commercialisation of the images of death that gives Hezbolla its propaganda power. As long as it knows that the Western media is in the market for this commodity, and it suits its own propaganda purposes, it will ensure a continued supply. And that is another reason why Qana is so important. In that benighted Lebanese village, death was a tradable commodity in an obscene marketplace. And the media did not seem to think that there was anything wrong.

 
Media Matters Suddenly Trusts the Media

The “progressives” at Media Matters are hopping mad that I suggested some of the photographs from the Qana bombing may have been staged: CNN’s Nguyen failed to challenge claims that Qana photos were staged.

Their counter-argument consists of pointing out that the wire services have denied staging any photos. So now Media Matters suddenly takes the media at their word? link: 95 comments

LGF on Fox

Posts will be a bit slow this morning; I’m about to go to the Fox News studio...

07:24 AM PDT | link: 456 comments

442 posted on 08/08/2006 11:11:13 AM PDT by backhoe (Just an Old Keyboard Cowboy, Ridin' the Trakball into the Dawn of Information)
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The Larger Issue

Richard at EU Referendum has some very apt comments on the Reuters Photoshop Scandal, and the likelihood that photos of the aftermath of the Qana bombing were staged by Hizballah. I’ve tried to bring up this subject in every interview, because I agree with Richard that this practice is much more insidious than clumsy image editing.

If not for the inept Photoshop work of Adnan Hajj, however, the issue of photo staging might never have been raised.

Richmond is asserting that publishing pictures of Hezbolla agents, parading the bodies of dead children in front of complicit photo-journalists for propaganda purposes, is perfectly acceptable as long as the result also matches what his paper wants to convey.

And that is why the crowing of the blogsphere is potentially dangerous. Not for nothing, more than a week after the first doubts about Qana have emerged, is the BBC prepared to entertain the issue. Although it has addressed the Qana issue, it was a brief exposition and the main focus was on “Reutersgate”, which is reflected in the minimal publicity given to the issue in the wider media. If this goes on, then Reuters will become the fall-guy for a problem that, as my colleague rightly points out, is far wider and more serious than doctoring a few photographs.

At the root is that death – or pictures of death - have become a commodity. For Hezbolla, they can be traded for political leverage, for the photo-journalists – those who are not working for Hezbolla – a good “snap” of a dead baby brings the prospect of financial reward, fame and even awards. And, at the top of the heap are the editors and the likes of Shane Richmond, in their air-conditioned offices, thousands of miles away from the action, who see the “pics” merely as illustrations for their productions.

These people have become so degraded, so devoid of humanity and so divorced from civilised mores that pictures of death are assessed on their artistic merit, their emotional power and relevance. Their source and method of procurement are quite irrelevant as long as they are “suitable for purpose”. One can almost imagine a scene where pictures are swapped like cigarette cards of old... “I’ll give you two dead girls for your dead baby, and throw in a dead old man to make up the balance”.

It is that amoral, soulless commercialisation of the images of death that gives Hezbolla its propaganda power. As long as it knows that the Western media is in the market for this commodity, and it suits its own propaganda purposes, it will ensure a continued supply. And that is another reason why Qana is so important. In that benighted Lebanese village, death was a tradable commodity in an obscene marketplace. And the media did not seem to think that there was anything wrong.

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Media Matters Suddenly Trusts the Media

The “progressives” at Media Matters are hopping mad that I suggested some of the photographs from the Qana bombing may have been staged: CNN’s Nguyen failed to challenge claims that Qana photos were staged.

Their counter-argument consists of pointing out that the wire services have denied staging any photos. So now Media Matters suddenly takes the media at their word? link: 95 comments

LGF on Fox

Posts will be a bit slow this morning; I’m about to go to the Fox News studio...

07:24 AM PDT | link: 456 comments

443 posted on 08/08/2006 12:33:13 PM PDT by backhoe (Just an Old Keyboard Cowboy, Ridin' the Trakball into the Dawn of Information)
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Here's our post on the Reuters Photoshop scandal:
Reuters Doctoring Photos from Beirut?

You know, reading some of these other links (thanks!), I have to admit, the best, most concise summary of the lying, including references to the photog in question might just be----this Reuters Site!

51 posted on 08/08/2006 3:50:27 PM EDT by sam_paine
 
MSM Fauxtography Watch

Some more possible evidence of MSM fauxtography (hat tip: kay1212) at OpinionJournal.

And here’s another at Hot Air: Another bogus photo?  link: 11 comments

Deranged Progressives in Denial Watch

Right Wing Nut House pulls on the hip waders and forges into the fever swamp of the lefty blogosphere, to see what they’re saying about the Reuters Photoshop Scandal: Hizbullah’s “Useful Idiots” Mum About Reuters Scamlink: 153 comments

Re: Picture Kill

Don’t miss Michelle Malkin’s Vent today: Picture Kill. link: 47 comments

Conspiracy Theorists Harass Flight 93 Photographer

If you’re taking blood pressure medication, you may want to up the dosage before reading this account of what’s happening to Val McClatchey, who took the only known photograph of the crash of United Airlines Flight 93—and is now being tormented by the worst species of moonbat: Conspiracy theorists blog that Flight 93 photo is fake. (Hat tip: LGF readers.)  link: 192 comments

Hate Mail from CNN (From A CNN ANCHOR!!!)--"You are a very unfair and stupid man, do you actually believe what you wrote in your article is true. I just hope Jewish people are all not like you.” This came from Jim Clancy over at CNN and unless someone hacked into his computer, this Jim Clancy co-anchors CNN’s “Your World Today,” which goes around the world. Clancy has covered virtually every hot spot over the past decades."

444 posted on 08/08/2006 2:00:04 PM PDT by backhoe (Just an Old Keyboard Cowboy, Ridin' the Trakball into the Dawn of Information)
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ALLAH HAS video of Jim Meigs talking about Popular Mechanics' new 9/11-myth debunking book.

Here's the PM blog on the book.

 
http://www.sweetness-light.com/

“Intellectuals” Say Hands Off Workers’ Paradise Cuba

August 8th, 2006

Speaking of Desmond Tutu, he and other professional moral superiors are telling the world we must preserve the sanctity of Castro’s brutal dictatorship.

From the Basques news outlet EITB:

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400 intellectuals urge United States to respect Cuba’s sovereignty

08/08/2006

Many of the 400 letter signers are from Latin America, and numerous Nobel Peace laureates are listed, such as former Archbishop Desmond Tutu of South Africa and activist Rigoberta Menchu of Guatemala...

That is so reassuring.

Lest we forget, Rigoberta Menchu is a Communist tool who made up the life story that won her the coveted Nobel Prize (and cash) for advancing the cause of dictatorships everywhere.

You can read the sordid details at FrontPage Magazine. It begins thusly:

I, Rigoberta Menchu, Liar

By David Horowitz
February 26, 1999

THE STORY OF RIGOBERTA MENCHU, a Quiche Mayan from Guatemala, whose autobiography catapulted her to international fame, won her the Nobel Peace Prize, and made her an international emblem of the dispossessed indigenous peoples of the Western hemisphere and their attempt to rebel against the oppression of European conquerors, has now been exposed as a political fabrication, a tissue of lies, and one of the greatest intellectual and academic hoaxes of the Twentieth Century…

But if the moral giants Rigoberta Menchu and Desmond Tutu say hands off Cuba, who are we to argue?

Where are our Nobel Prizes?

Related Articles:

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445 posted on 08/08/2006 4:20:53 PM PDT by backhoe (Just an Old Keyboard Cowboy, Ridin' the Trakball into the Dawn of Information)
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 [ Poll ] BLOGS: Do you REGULARLY read any?
UPDATE: Interesting stuff on blogospheric fact-checking at USA Today.--Johnson and his fans have created a special language. His readers are known as "lizardoids" and he invented the word "idiotarian" to describe his opponents...Readers leave comments of their own — the site is now home to nearly 3 million of them —
 
Do Not Feed the Fauxtographers

I hate blowing my own horn, but people want to know this stuff, so here’s the skinny on the upcoming lizardoid media takeover, using the pretext of the Reuters Photoshop scandal as an excuse for world domination:

* Tomorrow morning sometime after 7 am, ABC’s Good Morning America will show a segment we taped today. They also interviewed Reuters editor Paul Holmes, who thanked me personally and the blogosphere in general for fact-checking Reuters. (I’m paraphrasing. He didn’t say “fact-checking.” No talk of flying pigs now.)

* Tomorrow morning at about 9:50 am Pacific, I’ll be on ZOA Radio in Philadelphia.

* I’m not sure on the time yet, but I’ll also be on The Laura Ingraham Show in the morning with Tammy Bruce sitting in. (UPDATE: It’s on for 7:15 am.)

* Today I spoke to both the New York Times and the Washington Post about the story.

* Eliana Johnson (no relation) in the New York Sun has a good factual piece on the scandal and Reuters’ response: Reuters Pulls 920 Pictures by Discredited Photographer.

* A great editorial in Investor’s Business Daily: Jihad Journalism? (With one small correction: the death threat from a Reuters employee happened in May and was unrelated to the Photoshop scandal.)

* And last but not least, yesterday I spoke with Randy Dotinga of the Christian Science Monitor. Apparently the brainwashing was successful, and his piece advancing the lizardoid agenda is now online: A blogger shines when news media get it wrong.   link: 338 comments --This whole photo fiasco says so much about the MSM and its skewed priorites. I just love seeing them squirm. Bastards, it's long over due.

Zombie: Reuters Photo Phraud

A terrific overview of the Reuters Photoshop Scandal by LGF operative zombie: Reuters Photo Fraud. link: 56 comments

#11 zombie  8/8/2006 10:01PM PDT
 

A terrific overview of the Reuters Photoshop Scandal
Not to nitpick, but it's not just about the Photoshop scandal! In fact, that's the whole point of the essay -- it's about how there is much more to the scandal than just Photoshop. That's the point...the MSM has been unmasked as naked propagandists. The fakery is being uncovered so quickly now that we can barely keep up...

A blogger shines when news media get it wrong [MSM dinosaurs alert!!]


446 posted on 08/09/2006 5:09:58 AM PDT by backhoe (Just an Old Keyboard Cowboy, Ridin' the Trakball into the Dawn of Information)
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Reuters Scandal Updates

Jeff Goldstein has a good look at the Washington Post’s piece on LGF and the Reuters scandal: The Contingency of “Truth,” redux.

The New York Times has issued a correction for the misleading caption they published on yet another Lebanon fauxtograph: Corrections: For the Record - New York Times. (After it was exposed by Michelle Malkin: ‘Fauxtography’ alert: NYTimes and USNews; plus Time and Reuters’ Issam Kobeisi.)

Meanwhile, the New York Times piece on the scandal, by Katharine Seelye and Julie Bosman, is actually pretty good: Bloggers Drive Inquiry on How Altered Images Saw Printlink: 26 comments

Charles' segment is over.

The interview will be archived here.

 
The Protocols of the Daily Kos, Part 14

At the left’s premier “progressive” web site, Daily Kos, the Kidz take a short break from crowing over empty suit Ned Lamont to suggest that the US should “impose” a “solution” on Israel: Daily Kos: Why the US can impose a one-state solution on Israel-Palestine.

Why would we do that?

To appease the Arab terrorist groups who want to kill us, by throwing Israel to the wolves. link: 183 comments "Jews cause hatred. Therefore, kill off the Jews. Message brought to you by the New Democratic Party."

How do websites make money just by clicking on them?

447 posted on 08/09/2006 1:15:55 PM PDT by backhoe (Just an Old Keyboard Cowboy, Ridin' the Trakball into the Dawn of Information)
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Liddy corrects Malkin regarding FreeRepublic (audio)--The audio is about a minute in... Liddy (broadcasting from Sturgis) corrects Malkin on her misidentification of C. Johnson and Little Green Footballs as the source of the Texas National Guard CBS hoax. Liddy names "Free Republic" and Buckhead specifically. Cool!
448 posted on 08/09/2006 1:16:46 PM PDT by backhoe (Just an Old Keyboard Cowboy, Ridin' the Trakball into the Dawn of Information)
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Bernhard: Reuters' Image Problem

What a pleasant surprise to find a completely fair article about Little Green Footballs at the LA Weekly, not normally known as a bastion of anti-idiotarianism. Thanks to Brendan Bernhard for reporting my views accurately, and especially for this little excerpt: Reuters’ Image Problem.   link: 20 comments

 
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449 posted on 08/09/2006 4:14:34 PM PDT by backhoe (Just an Old Keyboard Cowboy, Ridin' the Trakball into the Dawn of Information)
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Reuters calls the doctor, take 3

In "Reuters calls the doctor, take 2," we noted that Retuers disseminated two Adnan Hajj photographs showing the same collapsed building that fell as the result of raids dated July 24 and August 5, respectively. In the background of each was a building with a pinwheel painted on it.
Now we learn from reader Leigh Fellner that AFP disseminated two photographs by Ramzi Haidar (here and here) of the same damaged building on July 18. Mr. Fellner has created a composite (below) with all four photographs.

pinwheels.jpg

He observes that the building in both AFP photos dated July 18 and the Reuters photos dated July 24 and August 5 is the same building. Among other things, he notes:

*same hole blown in lower right quadrant;
*same damage to building in the foreground;
*same large white sign on that building, hanging at the same askew angle; and
*same erector-set style signpost with two white signs on it at the streetcorner.
As a bonus, Mr. Fellner adds a possible sighting of Green Helmet Man in Beirut.
Posted by Scott at 05:26 PM | Permalink  comments from LGF: | link: 112 comments
 
"fauxtographers..." The  Reuters Photo Fraud page...
Multi-Use Buildings

Unbelievable.

 
#71 galloping granny  8/9/2006 07:34PM PDT
 

#39 Goddessoftheclassroom

galloping granny, I salute your hard work! If the government belongs to us citizens, surely the press does, too.

No thanks needed. If we don't have truth we don't have anything. Nothing I hate worse than a lie - as my children will all confirm.

I put together a slide show this morning of pics that I found showing the infamous Qana pics - specifically the ones we've been questioning- being used all over the world on protest signs. Lo and behold, right there in the mess is Green Helmet's Headless Baby 1996!

 
 
 
LGF on CNN Again

Another video of yours truly, posted at Hot Air, in which CNN’s Anderson Cooper admits that Hizballah is staging photographs from Lebanon: Charles Johnson, Howard Kurtz, Anderson Cooper on Reutersgate.   link: 58 comments

Anti-Israeli Cyberterrorist Attacks Planned for Tomorrow

 

450 posted on 08/10/2006 2:53:46 AM PDT by backhoe (Just an Old Keyboard Cowboy, Ridin' the Trakball into the Dawn of Information)
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#341 Sleipnir  8/10/2006 02:18AM PDT
 

Green Helmet caught directing photographers on video:

http://www.youtube.c...


451 posted on 08/10/2006 3:29:45 AM PDT by backhoe
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The Dems Hijack Sore Loserman

 

452 posted on 08/10/2006 11:51:54 AM PDT by backhoe
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To: Godzilla

I love Pajama Sam!


453 posted on 08/10/2006 11:55:51 AM PDT by Republican Red (Everyone is super stoked on Gore, even if they don't know it)
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"Lizardophobia"
CAIR Doesn't Like Us

Radical Islamist front group CAIR continues to libel me (by name) and Little Green Footballs in general, with a release on their web site about their statement to the Washington Post that repeats Ibrahim Hooper’s falsehoods, and has a classic CAIR smear for its title: CAIR: Islamophobic Blog Takes Aim at News Medialink: 168 comments

#88 Nahanni  8/10/2006 05:30PM PDT
 

The only reason they do is that you expose them for who and what they are, Charles. They fear that others are beginning to see what you have been telling people about them and Islamofascism in general is the truth. You have already singlehandedly wrecked their massive propaganda campaign against Israel with the exposure of the fauxtography of the MSM and Pallywood.

So they are beginning to feel the need to shut you up and shut you down. Of course they will try every trick in the book and bring in their LLL3 funders and allies to help.

#29 Ann  8/10/2006 05:05PM PDT
 

Ibrahim Hooper, spokesman for the Council on American-Islamic Relations, a civil rights organization often vilified on Johnson's blog, calls Little Green Footballs "a vicious, anti-Muslim hate site . . . that has unfortunately become popular."

This is why you pissed us off, you shit:
CAIR spokesman Ibrahim Hooper indicated in a 1993 interview with the Minneapolis Star Tribune that he wants to see the United States become a Muslim country.

"I wouldn't want to create the impression that I wouldn't like the government of the United States to be Islamic sometime in the future," Hooper told the Star Tribune. "But I'm not going to do anything violent to promote that. I'm going to do it through education."



Yes, you are not an American with our interests in mind. You are the enemy, and have been working your agenda for thirteen years.

Education route? Dahwa v. jihad. Your goal is the same.

They don't hate us because of Iraq. They don't hate us because of George W. Bush.

Way back in 1995, before Iraq, before Bush, the Islamic fascists tried a very similar airline terror..

Terror Plot Resembles 1995 Operation
Top Bin Laden Aide Planned To Blow Up 12 Flights Into The U.S.
http://www.cbsnews.c...

#167 Cato the Elder  8/10/2006 11:17PM PDT
 

With today's news from London it just got a little bit harder to convince Joe Sixpack that "Islamophobia" is a bad thing.

CAIR BASHES BUSH ON "ISLAMIC FASCISM"

CAIR is calling out President Bush for finally calling the enemy what it is -- Islamic fascism. If CAIR  loved freedom, justice and the American way, they would be denouncing Hezb'Allah, Ahmadinejad and aiding law enforcement in cracking sleeper cells in our great country.

U.S. MUSLIMS CONCERNED ABOUT BUSH'S USE OF 'ISLAMIC FASCISTS' - TOP
CAIR: 'Today you equated the religion of peace with the ugliness of fascism'

Yeah, you read that right. Religion of peace? Only under a pax islamica. No oeace until we all submit to Islam. That's right folks. That's what RoP means..........RoPMA

(WASHINGTON, D.C., 8/10/06) - A prominent national Islamic civil rights and advocacy group today expressed concern over President Bush's use of the term "Islamic fascists" in a news conference about the arrest of 21 suspects in a plot to bomb airliners flying between Britain and the United States.

SEE: Religious Group Bristles at Bush Term 'Islamic Fascists' (Reuters)

In a letter to President Bush, Parvez Ahmed, board chairman of the Washington-based Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) wrote in part:

"Unfortunately, your statement this morning that America 'is at war with Islamic fascists' contributes to a rising level of hostility to Islam and the American-Muslim community. Just today, Gallup released a poll indicating that four out of ten Americans feel 'prejudice' toward Muslims.

Either you are with us or against us. Otherwise, you are part of the fifth column.

Personally, I generally just call them terrorists. They clearly have some qualities in common with the fascists of the 30s and 40s, but, frankly, calling the terrorists "fascists" does a disservice to the fascists. In my opinion, today's Islamic terrorists are worse even than the Communists, who previously held the record. Worse qualitatively, that is; the difference is that the terrorists don't yet wield the kind of power that the Communists once did.

If anyone ever figures out what CAIR wants us to call the people who try to blow up airplanes, let me know. In the meantime, I'll keep on calling them "the *&#)@/ terrorists."

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#85 zuckerlilly  8/10/2006 05:28PM PDT
 

"Green Helmet" taping red crosses on coffins at Baalbeck (check out frame at 2:53 - via freerepublic)

Green Helmet (In case you don't have it)
From AliVeritas | 08/10/2006 8:22:40 PM EDT new

Check out second video
http://hotair.com/archives/2006/08/10/hezbollywood/

Michelle finally covered our guy in the rubble...
(Top Video)
http://www.michellemalkin.com

 

Reutersgate strikes other news outlets


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'Fauxtographers' Get Smoked by the Blogosphere

455 posted on 08/11/2006 5:15:30 AM PDT by backhoe
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I vote for pajamarazzi!!!!!!!!!!


456 posted on 08/11/2006 5:19:58 AM PDT by Auntie Toots (The GOP is still the best we've got))
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LGF Exclusive: How Much Does It Cost to Buy Global TV News?

An LGF reader who worked for Associated Press TV News sent me the following article explaining how APTN works, and suggesting a reason why their coverage of the Middle East is so overwhelmingly biased against Israel:

How Much Does It Cost to Buy Global TV News?

The vast majority of the TV news pictures you see are produced by two TV news companies. Presented here is a case for how a large amount of money has been used to inject a clear bias into the heart of the global TV news gathering system. That this happens is not at question, whether it is by accident or design is harder to tell.

You may not realize it, but if you watch any TV news broadcast on any station anywhere in the world, there is a better than even chance you will view pictures from APTN. BBC, Fox, Sky, CNN and every major broadcaster subscribes to and uses APTN pictures. While the method by which they operate is interesting, it is the extra service this US owned and UK based company offers to Arab states that is really interesting.

About the Associated Press

The Associated Press (AP) is a not-for-profit news gathering and dissemination service based in the US.Formed in 1848, the AP grew up from an agreement between the six major New York newspapers of the day. They wanted to defray the large telegraphy costs that they were all independently incurring for sending the same news coast to coast. Despite being highly competitive, they formed the Associated Press as a collection agency and agreed to share the material. Today, that six-newspaper cooperative is an organization serving more than 1,500 newspapers and 5,000 broadcast outlets in the United States. Abroad, AP services are printed and broadcast in 112 countries.

Associated Press Television News

Associated Press Television News (APTN) is a wholly owned subsidiary of AP. It was formally set up as a separate entity in 1994. It is run as a commercial entity and aims to make a profit. Any profit it does make is fed back to AP (which is non-profit making: APTN profits reduce the newsgathering costs incurred by the 1500 US newspapers that collectively own the AP). APTN is the largest television news gathering player (larger than Reuters, it’s only true competitor in this field). While AP is based in the US, APTN operates out of large premises in Camden, London. They have news teams, offices and broadcast facilities in just about every important place in the world.

APTN uses news crews and broadcast facilities all over the world to record video of newsworthy events (in News, Sport and Entertainment). These pictures are either sent unedited or very partially edited back to London. Most news is fed back within hours but they also cover and feed certain events live (news conferences in Iraq, press conferences after a sporting event etc.). Most of these stories are sent in with “natural sound”: there is no journalist providing a voice over, but the choice of what to shoot is in the hands of the local producer and camera crew. Local crews are sometimes employed directly by APTN, or more often “stringers” are hired for a particular event or paid for the footage they have already captured.

Once the stories have been fed back to the UK they are edited. This is a round the clock operation. The goal is to produce a 30 minute news bulletin comprising 6 or 7 stories every few hours. These stories are made by editing down the raw “rushes” that come in from all over the world. This is done by a team of producers who work for the news editor. They don’t supply a voice over but they do edit, discard and sequence pictures dictating the emphasis and direction of the story. They will accompany each story with a written description of each shot and the general reason this was a story. This is repeated for News, Sport & Entertainment with a geographical emphasis that shifts around the world as different markets wake and sleep. The output of this is called the “Global News Wire” (GNW).

The Business of TV News

This is how APTN makes its money: news organizations (mostly TV but not all) subscribe to APTN and pay an annual amount to both watch and then re-use the stories that are fed over the GNW. The stories are supplied with sound, but no journalist to do a voice over. Most commercial news stations (like the BBC, SKY, Fox or CNN) would take this feed, decide which pictures to use then re-edit it and supply an appropriate voice over for the story. The video comes with a written description of the shots and the events that occur in them.

The fee for this feed depends on the size of the receiving organization, their audience size and a negotiation with APTN’s sales force. It is pretty much impossible, however, to operate a TV news organization without taking feeds from either APTN or Reuters or usually both. The agreement with APTN usually allows the receiving news channel unlimited use of the video for two weeks. If they want to re-show those pictures after that they have to separately license the pictures (which can cost anything from $100 to $10,000 per 30 seconds depending on the content).

A Separate Service for Arab States

However, there is another significant part of their business model that affects the rest of the business. While most of the world takes news pictures with minimal interpretation beyond editing, the Arab Gulf States have asked for and receive a different and far more expensive service. These states pay for a complete news report service including full editing and voice overs from known journalists. The news organizations in the Arab countries don’t do anything (beyond verify that they are appropriate for local tastes) before broadcast.

What this means is that while there are around 50 people producing news pictures for the whole world working in Camden at any time, there are a further 50 Arabic speaking staff producing finished stories exclusively for the Arab states of the gulf. This has a tremendous effect on the whole feel of the building as these two teams feed pictures and people back and forth and sit in adjacent work areas. The slant of the stories required by the Gulf States has a definite effect on which footage is used and discarded. This affects both the Gulf newsroom and the main global newsroom.

This full service feed is much more expensive for the customers than the usual service, but it is also much higher margin for APTN. This is partly because there is great commonality in what they can send to most of the Gulf States taking this service: stories are made once and used in a number of countries.

Disproportionately Negative Coverage of Israel

Anything involving Israel is a favorite with Gulf Arab states for showing to their viewers. Could this be the reason why Israel receives such a disproportionate amount of particularly negative coverage especially and increasingly ever since the early 1970’s? HonestReporting is usually unable to decide which is most biased: AP or BBC. As the BBC is often using APTN footage, the difference is minor. A significant twist to what is seen, concerns what is not seen. Footage such as the Palestinian mob joyfully lynching two Israeli reservists in Ramallah in October 2000 is held by APTN’s library: any attempt to license this film for reshow is carefully vetted. Requests for the use of “sensitive clips” are referred directly to the Library director. This is not the case with clips that paint Israel in a bad light. Likewise, the re-showing of Palestinian celebrations on 9/11 is considered “sensitive”.

The way in which raw footage such as APTN’s is compiled into a news report and sent round the world has also been analyzed. The Second Draft gives a comprehensive view of how editing can make all the difference. APTN is the gatekeeper that sits between you and the actual event. You will never see what the editors at APTN see before they compile your evening news. What do you think is cut out?

The Wrap-Up

Was this organization set up with this in-built bias on purpose? Is there some way that the expensive payments made by Gulf state governments form part of a deliberate attempt to skew the media? In “Islam and Dhimmitude” (2002) by Bat Ye’or on p294-296 she recounts how decisions were taken in the wake of the Arab-Israeli war of 1967 to try to put across an anti-Jewish, anti-Zionist message. Successive conferences resolved to contribute vast sums “to universities, centers for Islamic studies, international communications agencies, and private and governmental organizations in order to win over world opinion.” (p296). The messages from these conferences stressed an addition to the more familiar violent jihad: they also emphasized the importance of jihad by the written and spoken word. What we would recognize as classic propaganda. Without question APTN’s interesting business model represents a concrete example of an ongoing financial “contribution” to an important communication agency promoting a pro-Arab bias.

link: 46 comments   Michael Kelly as relates to the topic at hand.
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"APTN is an echolocation chamber. Reality-Based™ media at its best...so petro dollars are buying out the free flow of information-and the AP sold out Israel for petro dollars..."

457 posted on 08/11/2006 1:19:47 PM PDT by backhoe
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This is the media that exposed the fake photos, recently. Ain't it the greatest....exposing the liar media...now down for the count.....


458 posted on 08/11/2006 1:30:21 PM PDT by shield ( A wise man's heart is at his RIGHT hand; but a fool's heart at his LEFT. Ecc 10:2)
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In the FYI, FWIW department, friend Angry continues to be plagued by Attention Whore & Internet Pestilence D-Cubed ( Demented Docktor Deb, AKA D3 ):


http://www.stevejanke.com/archives/190377.php


Do I ban Deb Frisch? I have never banned anyone from Angry in the Great White North...But until this comment by Deb Frisch, I have never had one that was calculatingly deceptive and designed to cause hurt to someone else...So do I ban her IP address? I'm not sure.Posted by: backhoe at August 12, 2006 03:13 AM

 
http://www.stevejanke.com/archives/190363.php
Deb Frisch writes suicide note for conservative blogger [updated]
Posted by Steve Janke of the Blogging Tories at 09:28 AM
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Readers of this blog might have noticed what read like a suicide note appearing as a comment to one of my posts. It appeared to be from a member of the US armed forces, a Navy SEAL named Matthew Heidt.

Don't worry. No one is going to get hurt. I've been Frisched.

This morning, I discovered I had been Frisched:

Based on the access logs, she came to my blog via Pajamas Media at 23:02:55. She didn't do much reading -- at 23:03:44 she went to "Monopoly on violence -- again" post and left her creepy suicide note.

Deb Frisch has graced my blog once before, commenting at this post:

Both IP addresses are hers, according to Patterico:

In any case, she's up to her old tricks. Finding conservative bloggers and trying to embarrass and humiliate them.

Update #1: If you are wondering why Matthew Heidt was targetted, know it was not random:

And she is actually in Eugene, Oregon, according to this entry in ORBlogs.

Update #3: Deb Frisch comments on the allegation of being the master of the Matthew Heidt sockpuppet:

Update #4: On my post where I invite readers to voice their opinion on whether Deb Frisch should be banned from commenting on this blog, Deb Frisch adds her own two cents:

Oh no, "teh crayzee" strikes again. Check out this site for more updates:

http://donthiredeb.blogspot.com/

A brief conversation between

A "Word Warrior" (WW) and "Teh Vodka" (TV)


TV: What's all this about froggy?
WW: hombra got na honerz an kneeds 2 di
TV: Wow, ok, what about Jeff?
WW: da 123 gots zero honerz an kneeds to stfu. kapeech
TV: So you have all the honor, I suppose
WW: props from my peeps! olive u
TV: If you have so much honor, why can't you admit a mistake
WW: da pissant gots ta b sut dawn! I don wanna hair bout dat nomo!
TV: Of all the people who drink vodka, I get this...

Update:OK, that sucks... Try this

459 posted on 08/12/2006 12:32:52 AM PDT by backhoe
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Deb Frisch writes suicide note for conservative blogger


460 posted on 08/12/2006 3:58:51 AM PDT by backhoe (Just an Old Keyboard Cowboy, Ridin' the Trakball into the Dawn of Information)
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