My earlier post is gettin' sorta long and as the M-F crowd comes to life I'm sure the discussion will continue, so I might as well get an early start.

Lessons from a true pro here and here. It's a good thing he's on our side. (Get that picture on the left as a wallpaper -- Awesome.)

Allahpundit: Reuters fallout: Stuff everyone’s already seen

Beth C: All your smoke are belong to us

Dorkafork has a great before/after overlay here.

Goldstein: Blowing Smoke (UPDATED), “Reuters drops freelance Lebanese photographer over image”

Confederate Yankee: Is Lebanon Faked?

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Doctored Reuters Photo of Beirut and the Manipulation of the Media
Bill Roggio

“We are in a battle, and that more than half of this battle is taking place in the battlefield of the media. And that we are in a media battle in a race for the hearts and minds of our Ummah.” - Ayman al-Zawahiri, in a letter to Abu Musab al-Zarqawi

Ayman al-Zawahiri's words do not only apply to his al-Qaeda and affiliated groups, but to all terrorist organizations. Terrorists do not employ terror tactics because of their military strength, but because of their military weaknesses; they have no hope of defeating modern militaries on the conventional battlefield. They seek to strike at the strategic weakness of democratic states: public opinion. They seek to erode the public's will to fight terror groups. Terrorist organizations skillfully manipulate the media to propagate their message. And in some instances, the terrorists have willing accomplices within the media. The current war between Israel and Hezbollah provides examples of both media manipulation and accommodation.

[Read on.]

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Bruce Kesler: U.S. Newspapers Cure Reuters, or Are Complicit

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MM: Reuters: The clone stamp news service

Contributed by Bill Faith on August 7, 2006 at 05:26 AM in Bill Faith, Media Perfidy | Permalink

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