Ain't War Grand? (At least in the media?)
I haven't been blogging at all about this whole War in the MidEast thing cuz...well, firstly it's impossible to know where to stop and start. Also, many are doing it better.
But these two things are so great I had to put em up here, just in case anyone thinks that Hizbullah is some sort of ragtag guerilla group. In reality they're very nearly a standing army with a media team so savvy that movie studios could learn something from them.
Most people who only peek at the news, probably read an article like this sad one yesterday:
It starts like this:
BEIRUT, Lebanon (CNN) -- Lebanon's prime minister said Monday an Israeli airstrike on the southern village of Houla left 40 people dead.
"An hour ago, there was a horrific massacre in the village of Houla in which more than 40 martyrs were victims of deliberate bombing," Fouad Siniora told Arab foreign ministers in Beirut.
If you like reading war stuff and choose to follow-up and find out what really happened, you might read this article (courtesy of Associated Press) today. It begins:
BEIRUT, Lebanon - Lebanon's prime minister said Monday that one person had been killed in an Israeli air raid on the southern village of Houla, lowering the death toll from 40.
LOWERING the death toll? That's a bit of an understatement, eh?
Oopsie daisy!
There's also been extensive evidence that the number of reported dead in the Qana "massacre" was about 1/2 of what was claimed....Of course that story didn't get as much press as the non-massacre (kinda like the Jenin "massacre") but, hey, c'est la guerre!
And then there is this great photo:
Even though anyone with basical digital photographic skills can see that the photographer (poorly) added a bunch of smoke with his clone button (and some damaged buildings too!), Reuters ran it. Then they killed it and sorta-apologized.
You can read about it just about anywhere in the media that cares about stuff like accuracy but Little Green Footballs kinda "broke" the story...
Ain't war grand?
ADDED: Hey- even the NT Times isn't immune!
They ran a beautiful photo essay that included one moving photo of an apparently-dead Lebanese guy under some rubble. Other photos in the essay featured him walking about doing just fine and rescuing others. Are you surprised? Do you even want to see it?
At least it makes it easier to know who to cheer for.
But these two things are so great I had to put em up here, just in case anyone thinks that Hizbullah is some sort of ragtag guerilla group. In reality they're very nearly a standing army with a media team so savvy that movie studios could learn something from them.
Most people who only peek at the news, probably read an article like this sad one yesterday:
It starts like this:
BEIRUT, Lebanon (CNN) -- Lebanon's prime minister said Monday an Israeli airstrike on the southern village of Houla left 40 people dead.
"An hour ago, there was a horrific massacre in the village of Houla in which more than 40 martyrs were victims of deliberate bombing," Fouad Siniora told Arab foreign ministers in Beirut.
If you like reading war stuff and choose to follow-up and find out what really happened, you might read this article (courtesy of Associated Press) today. It begins:
BEIRUT, Lebanon - Lebanon's prime minister said Monday that one person had been killed in an Israeli air raid on the southern village of Houla, lowering the death toll from 40.
LOWERING the death toll? That's a bit of an understatement, eh?
Oopsie daisy!
There's also been extensive evidence that the number of reported dead in the Qana "massacre" was about 1/2 of what was claimed....Of course that story didn't get as much press as the non-massacre (kinda like the Jenin "massacre") but, hey, c'est la guerre!
And then there is this great photo:
Even though anyone with basical digital photographic skills can see that the photographer (poorly) added a bunch of smoke with his clone button (and some damaged buildings too!), Reuters ran it. Then they killed it and sorta-apologized.
You can read about it just about anywhere in the media that cares about stuff like accuracy but Little Green Footballs kinda "broke" the story...
Ain't war grand?
ADDED: Hey- even the NT Times isn't immune!
They ran a beautiful photo essay that included one moving photo of an apparently-dead Lebanese guy under some rubble. Other photos in the essay featured him walking about doing just fine and rescuing others. Are you surprised? Do you even want to see it?
At least it makes it easier to know who to cheer for.
posted by Heavy Early at 1:04 PM
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