donderdag, augustus 10, 2006
"What's the big deal over a little faked smoke?"
Columniste Michelle Malkin haalt nog eens flink uit naar de vertegenwoordigers van gevestigde media, die de photoshop-affaires van de afgelopen weken bagatelliseren en denigrerende opmerkingen maken over de webloggers die de manipulaties ontdekten.
"What's the big deal over a little faked smoke?" That seems to be the prevailing attitude among media pooh-bahs irked by bloggers who exposed the crude Photoshoppery of a Reuters photographer over the weekend. The cameraman, prolific Lebanese stringer and chronicler of Hizballah Adnan Hajj, was fired.
But the black cloud of truth-distorting photo fakery, jihadi-sympathizing news staging and sloppy photo captioning in the Middle East hangs over American journalism thicker than anything Hajj could conjure.
Watch now for braying, rationalizing and messenger-shooting from the journalistic elite. You will hear them complain about the bloodthirsty blog mob. You will see editors rally around Reuters and dismiss this debacle as a lone event.
(De zaak afdoen als een incident, dat zagen we gisteren ook al in Nederland gebeuren...)
Lees meer in het artikel The Reuterization of war photojournalism continues op de website van de Houston Chronicle.
"What's the big deal over a little faked smoke?" That seems to be the prevailing attitude among media pooh-bahs irked by bloggers who exposed the crude Photoshoppery of a Reuters photographer over the weekend. The cameraman, prolific Lebanese stringer and chronicler of Hizballah Adnan Hajj, was fired.
But the black cloud of truth-distorting photo fakery, jihadi-sympathizing news staging and sloppy photo captioning in the Middle East hangs over American journalism thicker than anything Hajj could conjure.
Watch now for braying, rationalizing and messenger-shooting from the journalistic elite. You will hear them complain about the bloodthirsty blog mob. You will see editors rally around Reuters and dismiss this debacle as a lone event.
(De zaak afdoen als een incident, dat zagen we gisteren ook al in Nederland gebeuren...)
Lees meer in het artikel The Reuterization of war photojournalism continues op de website van de Houston Chronicle.
# posted by Jan-Edward : 09:02
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