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2006-08-10 Home Front: Culture Wars

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Posted by Fred 2006-08-10 00:00|| || Front Page|| [2 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 "How to explain what has gotten into those photographers covering the Middle East is beyond me."

Try this on for size: They're murderous Jooooo-hating ASSHOLES who know the ~~anti-American, anti-semitic~~ Western media will be happy to be complicit in their lies.

How do they know it, you may ask? From experience.

Posted by Barbara Skolaut">Barbara Skolaut 2006-08-10 00:07|| http://ariellestjohndesigns.com]">[http://ariellestjohndesigns.com] 2006-08-10 00:07|| Front Page Top

#2 Unless its a dynamic situation, even on the local level, news photos and television coverage are staged and orchestrated.

Posted by Tholunter Ulonter6878 2006-08-10 09:50|| 2006-08-10 09:50|| Front Page Top

#3 Strangely, the journalistic establishment seems largely unconcerned about this.

I honestly believe there was a time when mythical creatures roamed the earth in defense of journalistic integrity. Call it blind faith but even today, every so often, I swear I catch a glimpse of them. Occasionally, a specter will distinguish itself from the shadows reinforcing my hopes that they havent gone the way of the dinosaur. Sadly though, the sightings have become less frequent as of late. I pray all the backslapping and puffery over the narrative known as Katrina wasnt the sound of the Death knell for these Beasts of Burden. But we are living in times when a so-called journalist writes an article based on leaked, classified information dropped in their lap. (The very definition of an agenda driven story) Only to be rewarded by her peers with a Pulitzer Prize for investigative journalism.
Maybe one day these scarce entities will wander back out of seclusion, if for nothing else, to avoid complete extinction.

Posted by DepotGuy 2006-08-10 11:14|| 2006-08-10 11:14|| Front Page Top

#4 That's why the picture from His Girl Friday is so appropriate. After all, few of the reporters in that movie cared about anything but getting a sensational headline. They made up stories, bruited rumors as facts, and generally acted as partisan hacks. Does this seem familiar?

Just imagine Cary Grant's Walter Burns in a moden newsroom. Of course, I can't imagine the character being anti-US or anti-Semitic.

Anyway, it's a great film. The Front Page is much better with Hildy as a woman.

Posted by Eric Jablow">Eric Jablow 2006-08-10 15:46|| 2006-08-10 15:46|| Front Page Top

#5 I use tint, sharpness, anti-Red Eye, and other utilities on 100% of all pictures I take. Fakery isn't the only use of the new software.

Posted by Snease Shaiting3550 2006-08-10 18:44|| 2006-08-10 18:44|| Front Page Top

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