Reuters and News Bias

Let us start this rant with a little good humor, to cleanse the palate of the mind before getting into the ugliness below. Disney World Hit By Israeli Bombs (credit to Frank J at http://imao.us/) I am still laughing at this today. Unfortunately, I could not allow this story to pass without comment. It amazes me that after Dan Rather people think they can still get away with shoddy news work. It's not even a good job of doctoring the photos. If you don't know what I am talking about let this shine some light into your cave. Little Green Footballs YNet News Drinking from Home Follow the link within those articles to find more doctored pictures. It is really hard to decide who to blame for these falsified documents. Sure you can start with the photographer himself. He obviously has an anti-Israel veiwpoint. But then he is really just shooting what he believes in, his passion so to speak, which makes him more an artist than a photojournalist, but are we really that surprised? We could blame the Hezbollah angents who taxied a dead body around town to be photographed by different news agencies. But he was just following orders. We could blame the photographers from the different news agencies for filming the pictures, but they where just trying to make a fast buck off the misery of people. I think the blame has to fall on the photo editors of Reuter's. They have the last say in what gets sent out and what doesn't. What is thier excuse? Oops, one got through. Oops, a second one got through? Oops, we have no idea what else is fake so we are going to get rid of all them (instead of allowing a third party to examine them.) One could ALMOST except the one getting by, but not the picture of the smoke. It is so obviously faked. My 18 month old daughter could do a better job than that. The photographer said it was the bad light he was working in and he was trying to get rid of dust spots. If he had that many dust spots he should retake the picture or give up photography. In this day of easily manipulated photos (some good like to get rid of red eye), we seem to have lost the ability to just take great photos. Anyone with a camera phone and photoshop can be a photojournalist, disseminating their false pictures and faultier veiw points. If a picture is worth a thousand words, then isn't a doctored picture just gibberish? And if not then what does it say about our news and OUR gullibility today. I think we all may need a STUPIDITY PILL!!!!! (Notice who ran the story).