Monday, August 07, 2006

A fraud a day

Actually, on some days it's more than one.

Reuters has withdrawn a second photograph and admitted that the image was doctored, following the emergence of new suspicions against images provided by the news organization: Read more.

UPDATE: Reuters withdrew all 920 photographs by a freelance Lebanese photographer from its database on Monday after an urgent review of his work showed he had altered two images from the conflict between Israel and the armed group Hizbollah.

A Norwegian journalist has admitted he fabricated interviews with Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates and talk show host Oprah Winfrey, media reports said Monday: Read more

The Lebanese prime minister says only one person died in an Israeli air raid on the southern village of Houla, lowering the death toll from 40: Read more; Original statement

"Americans and Westerners are not used to dealing with carefully orchestrated and large-scale deception of this kind. It is time that it be recognized as a weapon of warfare, and an extremely potent one at that." Evidence Mounts that Kana "Massacre" Was a Fake

And then there is the frequent subtle fraud perpetuated by even our own media. Don't believe me? Well here's a recent article that will help to wake you up. (And if you then wake up and still don't care, you have a death wish).

"World Terminally Misinformed: We Are All Mushrooms –Kept in the Dark and Fed Media Droppings" posted by Dick McDonald on Sunday, August 06, 2006 at 3:24 pm.

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