Photoshop Propaganda

This kind of media manipulation is exactly what they mean when people talk about Hizbollah hiding behind civilians and using them as shields. This is just another way of using civilians to further their terror objectives.
The US didn't direct and broadcast the bodies of 911 victims. Israel does not broadcast images of the horribly dismembered victims of homicide / suicide bombers. Rest assured, the stock footage is there, but repsect for the dead comes before political objectives.
Think about who is sensationalising death and who is not.

Come on folks, if the news is not about truth, then what IS it about? If green helmet is manipulating the news, then it IS news. If the Israelis do the same then it should be exposed. Propaganda on either side benefits when the truth is not found. I am stupefied when facts are uncovered and the ‘foxnews’ card is played or the ‘libermediabiase’ card is played.

Think for yourselves folks, let the facts fall where they may and then make your decision. If the facts are manipulated, then we should all stand up and cheer when that is brought to light! The reporters that bring the facts are angels not brutes. Kudos to JT for having the investigative agility that followed the dialogue and not a collective un-vetted conclusion.

JT, this story may or may not have ‘legs,’ but your journalistic curiosity is uncommon and should be the standard.

Tapper, you are as biased as Fox News, which continues to claim that Israel never bombed Qana, after Israel freely admitted it. You right wingers live in a paralell dimension where the media is uniformly 'liberal'--something that hasn't been true for 30 years.

The fact that you legitimize rabidly racist, bigoted, lunatic fringe rightwing websites like the ones you mention only demonstrates exactly how unliberal the media has become.

Both sides in Lebanon are manipulating public opinion and both are murdering large numbers of innocent civilians. All 'news' is manipulated and has a viewpoint. But only truly stupid people [like Fox News viewers] people that their media source is 'fair and balanced',

Most people should, and do, take it all with a grain of salt.

Jt,

While the other stuff mentioned above is doctored and unethical but your comment "compelling evidence of manipulation" is even worse when commenting on the dead child video. Look, the green hemlet dude might be "directing" his film but the truth remains the innocent child was killed by Israel in cold blood. Do you not think this child was terrified? Shame on you.

I think the story offers ETHICS.and hides strategy..as in getting people to actually look at crummy pictures..belching smoke..an aircraft the size of a ant..I mean really..what junk for photography..I think the push for a Middle-East in art is sick.

The liberal media has been so biased for so long that most people know it is like reading pulp fiction rather than fact.

"Clarify"? "Valid"? The only difference is whose propaganda you agree with. We are just more used to the news media's biases.

I'd say incidents like this serve to showcase how limited a view we get from the media. I'd rather see images that I know are propaganda rather than ones purporting to be truth.

None of this is really surprising or shocking, since photographers have always served as editors of a sort in deciding which photographs to take, how to compose them, and where to shoot them. Moreover, photographs (with movie and video footage later) have been used to convey political propaganda since Daguerre first applied colloid to metal plates.

The recent innovations of digital photography and computerized photo manipulation are merely technical advances to accomplish desired effects in the photographs. How those tools are used, whether to distort a photographic record of an event or to clarify that same record, determine whether the photograph is valid or not. Clearly, what Adnan Hajj did was to "enhance" the reality for dramatic or political purposes and render it false, just like the man who directed filming of the dead child. Both cases aren't valid news reporting in any sense of the word, just propaganda designed to further political views. That Hezbollah is using the corpse of a dead child to accomplish this is, to my mind, an abomination.