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Blogger Takes Aim At News Media and Makes a Direct Hit

By Paul Farhi
Washington Post Staff Writer
Wednesday, August 9, 2006; Page C01

Charles Johnson could tell there was something wrong with the news photo the minute he saw it. Something about the three plumes of black smoke rising over the buildings -- smoke just doesn't curl that way, pirouetting in unison. It was, he wrote Saturday, "blatant evidence of manipulation."

He was right on target.

The Reuters photo showing the aftermath of an Israeli airstrike on Beirut was doctored. The British-based news service acknowledged as much Sunday, withdrawing that picture and another doctored image, of an Israeli jet, that were taken by freelance photographer Adnan Hajj. The agency subsequently severed its ties with the Lebanese photographer and purged its files of his work.

The exposure of the doctored airstrike photo was a coup for Johnson and his four-year-old political blog, Little Green Footballs. Make that a second coup, of sorts.

Imagine, the Washington Post pretending that this is so unusual that it is noteworthy. They act as if this kind of bias against American Interests and Israel is unusual. One of the most blatantly biased news sources in America.

Even more amusing, if you believed that this piece was an analysis of Reuters News Services complete violation of objectivity and the precepts of good journalism, you'd be wrong. The bulk of the article is dedicated to the statements of Ibrahim Hooper, spokesman for the Council on American-Islamic Relations, a civil rights organization often vilified on Johnson's blog. Not surprisingly we find out (oh, horrors of horrors) those on the right, like the regular visitors to LGF, use this kind of "isolated" occurrence to "paint the MSM with the broad brush of Liberal bias." Imagine, people accusing the MSM of having a Left-wing bias. I mean just because the press continues to express horror over every single Lebanese casualty, even those which are demonstrably orchestrated, yet continues to virtually ignore the fact that the people of Israel are under constant threat from unguided missiles. Remember, during World War II we (the Allies) called the V1 and V2 (unguided)rockets, "weapons of terror."

Who could imagine such a thing? The press biased to the Left? Impossible!

Right!

Full Story: LGF Strikes Blow Against MSM Bias

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