Over at the Zombietime blog is a nice roundup of the whole fauxtography scandal at Reuters detailing the four types of fraud committed, plus the one I linked to previously at the NYT.
9 August, 2006
Darwin meets Stalin
The International Solidarity Movement, an official organization of Useful Idiots, is sending members to deliberately put themselves in harm’s way as human shields for the Hezbo Islamofacists.
Excuse me. I don’t see the downside here.
Hat tip: LGF.
Hezbo Liars
Jonah Goldberg posts a CNN transcript.
While on the Hezbollah side, it’s really interesting – I was in ut, and they took me on this sort of guided tour of the Hezbollah- controlled territories in southern Lebanon that were heavily bombed. They are much cruder, viously. They don’t have the experience in this kind of thing. But they clearly want the story of civilian casualties out. That is their – what they’re heavily pushing, to the point where on this tour I was on, they were just making stuff up. They had six ambulances lined up in a row and said, OK, you know, brought reporters there, they said you can talk to the ambulance drivers. And then one by one, they told the ambulances to turn on their sirens and to – and people taking that picture would be reporting, I guess, the idea that these ambulances were zooming off to treat civilian casualties, when in fact, these ambulances were literally going back and forth down the street just for people to take pictures of them.
NYT Fauxtography
No, not bad photoshop work. But someone thought this photo was a staged fraud.
Then came a major retraction.
I never really thought the guy was dead. But it still looks staged to me.
