It gets ever harder to take the press seriously *UPDATED*
Bookworm on Jul 15 2008 at 9:07 am | Filed under: Media matters
The press continues to shape public perceptions, but people are starting to wise up to the fact that the press often has no idea what it’s doing (especially when it comes to military matters) and that it either outright lies or misrepresents through omission. The Confederate Yankee just found a photographic example in which the AFP was probably guilty of all three sins: military ignorance, affirmative misrepresentative and outright lies. Wow!
UPDATE: Turns out AFP got it right in the first instance. It was AP that lifted the photo and gave it a new, and entirely erroneous, caption.
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AFP shouldn’t be taken seriously – it is a propaganda arm of the French government.
I don’t take any of them seriously. I remember watching CNN during the first Iraq War and listening to Wolf Blitzer narrate video of what he said was a jet coming in for a landing. First time I’d ever seen someone use afterburners on a landing.
Wolf Blitzer is incredibly slow, which is rather ironic given his last name.
http://www.blackfive.net/main/2008/07/embedding-wit-1.html
Read that for an image of what people mean by “enemies of humanity”, including the allies of such.