did this but made sure they applied some very serious vetting to this material back at the home office.īut they don't. It would be one thing if, given economic realities, Reuters et al. ![]() It is the MSM's "outsourcing" of most foreign news coverage to low-paid, low-experience, low-credentials, foreign "local" stringers who almost certainly have a very strong personal interest in 1) juicing their stories and pictures to make sure they sell and 2) advancing a political goal of slandering Israel that most Muslims, sadly, seem to share. PPPS: I don't want to oversell this, but this could be Rathergate II: The Revenge, that we've all been waiting for. PPS: Tried to find my old Drudge Siren gif, couldn't, decided to go with a flaming skull. If they don't, they're compounding their crime by covering it up. There is enough on the simple face of it here to compel Reuters to make the original negative public. I think it was doctored much earlier in the process. PS: Unless there's some sort of spoofing going on, the image appears to be posted on Yahoo news, credited to Reuters.ĭid someone at Yahoo doctor it? Someone at Reuters? They'd more or less have to simply say "Almost all of our international coverage is highly suspect due to our unwillingness to send credentialed journalists into these areas." They just can't even get into this issue. ![]() But they will do no explaining, and ask no questions, and embargo the story, because they cannot admit that they have cut foreign budgets to such a degree tthey now rely almost entirely on local stringers of questionable objectivity and integrity for the bulk of their foreign reportage. ![]() Of the Hajj's of Louisberg Square, Boston, I wonder? Seems to me someone was just writing a lot about the MSM setting itself for a major scandal by credulously taking every report or picture submitted by a foreign stringer with likely poltiical biases, unknown loyalties, and dubious ethics, and splashing them on the front pages as if they'd all been carefully scrutinized and vetted. I mean, there was really no question at first, now there's really, really, really no question.) LGF throws a little question mark into the headline, but then writes "There's really no question about it." (Update: There is really no question about it any longer. When it comes to matters of forgery, I think Little Green Footballs has established his bona fides.Įven I can see the very suspicious "clonings" of picture elements here. Bumped, for those of you who didn't bother reading the Internet yesterday.
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