Aug 01 2006
Photogs Deny Staging Qana
The UK Guardian (note: I just noticed this story is in more than the Guardian) is taking the questions regarding staged photos at Qana somewhat seriously – but not really. The article seems to be one of simple feigned shock that anyone would charege the media with staging the photos. Well it is clear this photo is staged – look at the debri and realize the pulverizing power that decimated the block and concrete, yet somehow left the picture intact and without a speck of dust on it! We all know from 9-11 the power of a falling structure to disintegrate furniture. But that photo is immaculate. No, that is not staged.
Neither does the story address the most blatant example of staging, the absolutely clean pacifier hanging off this poor babies corpse in this picture (warning – graphic image). This is one of many EU Referundum noticed of the same poor child in their ground breaking post the Guardian article is challenging. The article focuses on the issue of time stamps, which all they can say may not be the time of the picture. But they do not say what the sequence is. Well the photogs know because their pictures would be sequenced (either on the negative or on the digital file). Maybe the Guardian should have asked for evidence?
My first comment concerns the intelligence, or better the lack of it, of the people who staged the pictures for which you provided links. They are so crude, that they are childish. Remember the “baby milk factory†picture of the first Iraq Gulf war? These are the products of individuals which reached the same stage of intellectual development: very infantile.
My second comment is that I find it sad and disheartening that these crude attempts at manipulation are working on our media and, in so doing; they show the low level of mental development achieved by the main sources of information used by the general public. Fortunately, the continuing decline of the MSM shows that you can fool some of the people only some of the time.
Luc,
The MSM CAN’T admit the photos were staged. If they did they would at least have to admit to themshelves that they were manipulated and WRONG! Don’t ya know the people in the MSM are the SMARTEST, ALL seeing, MOST enlightened people ever to grace us and this earth!
Come on now, they can’t be wrong it would hurt their SELF-ESTEEM to much!
Their self-proclaimed superiority is wearing very thin!