08 Aug 2006

Another Great Bogus Photo

Adnan Hajj, Hezbollah, Israel, Lebanon, Media Bias, The Mainstream Media, US News

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Brave insurgent defending burning Lebanon against Israeli warplanes.


But, oops! he’s really posing in front of burning garbage at the local dump.

Thomas S., an Allahpundit reader catches US News falling for a faked photo.

Michelle Malkin covers this one, and another new one which appears to incorporate an underwear model as victim.

And be sure not to miss Michelle’s latest video on the Reuters photos: Picture Kill. It offers another excellent Malkin-special summary.

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Never Yet Melted » The Mind Boggles

[...] Mitchell has actually published an editorial in defense of the MSM and the Lebanon Fautographers. He calls the latter “brave.” (It is evidently dangerous to photograph people posing by burning garbage dumps or to use the Photoshop clone tool too much.) And he sneers at the bloggers who demonstrated many instances of fraud as “risk(ing) nothing but carpal tunnel syndrome.” [...]



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