Sunday, August 06, 2006

Centerfeud: First Rathergate, Now Reutersgate


The only thing missing is the superscript th. And did I forget to mention PICTURE KILL? Centerfeud has a summary:

"No one is questioning the media's right to cover the destruction in Lebanon, and to provide the critical Lebanese perspective of the damage that is being wrought by Israel's attacks. But it is irresponsible to hand a megaphone to Hezbollah, or to report without establishing the motives of the people supplying the information. Part of Hezbollah's war-fighting strategy is to milk every possible casualty for its propaganda potential, and there is growing skepticism that some (certainly by no means all!) of the images of dead Lebanese civilans are manufactured or manipulated for consumption of both Arab and Western media. This technique of staging and manuipulating media imagery has been honed to an art form by Palestinian propagandists and was exposed in a [film satirizing a] 60-minutes segment titled "Pallywood" [the film is called "Pallywood", not the 60 minutes segment being sartirized]."