'Shouting Religious Slogans
Another classic from Reuters:Four gunmen shouting religious slogans attacked the U.S. embassy in
Damascus on Tuesday, but failed to harm any American diplomats before
all four were killed, a Syrian official said.Of course, the news service would provide similar cover if these gunmen were Christian... (h/t Small Dead Animals)
The Beeb Who Cried Wolf
Last month, bloggers
(including NB's Bob
Owens), caught the BBC flat-out admitting its complicity in a
staged photo shoot with a Lebanese boy posing next to what the
broadcast said was an "Israeli bomb lying unexploded" in someone's
living room.
Admitting to participating in news manipulation was bad enough and
doing it while endangering a child was even worse. Further compounding
things,…
Hanging by a Thread
Much like the UN's credibility, this cluster bomb seems to be hanging by a thread.
But, for starters, is it really likely that it landed there by itself? Or is it more likely that someone identified it as a dud and hung it from a tree?
And secondly, how's this for moral equivalence: Is there ANY distinction between Israel "raining down cluster bombs when a cease-fire was in sight," and…
Journos Blame Israel for Faulty Mideast Coverage
At a recent journalists convention in Israel, the assembled representatives of the world's elite media realized that press's coverage of the recent war in Lebanon has been flawed. And that it was Israel's fault. See NRO's Media blog for details, then read the rest of this article (h/t LGF):In short, much of the most incendiary
media coverage of this war seems to have been either staged or…
Mike Hornbrook from the CBC: Hezbullah Cash is REAL
Mike Hornbrook, a CBC journalist on the ground in Lebanon, has popped in over at Snapped Shot, and informs us that from on the ground in Lebanon, that there are no indications that Hezbullah is handing out counterfeit money:
With all respect to bloggers who sometimes discover things missed by mainstream media, this story about Hezbollah handing out counterfeit $100 bills is completely insane!…
Behind the Scenes of a Pallywood Production
Elsewhere on the fake Middle Eastern news front, the Second Draft has two must-see videos (HT: Instapundit) that look at a famous "news" item from 2000 in which a young Palestinian boy is reportedly shot by Israeli soldiers while crouching behind a barrel. The footage was filmed by a Palestinian cameraman working for a French television station. Upon further examination, like many pictures from…
