Media in Full Tet Mode
Charles Johnson
Thu Apr 8, 2004 at 5:35 pm PDT • Views: 295
I’m not going to post this photo here at LGF, out of respect for the fallen soldiers it portrays.
But the caption, from Agence France Presse, is one of the most dishonest media tricks I’ve seen in a long while. And that’s saying something.
Here’s the AFP caption, a nauseating mix of defeatism and ghoulish delight, implying that the soldier whose coffin is in the photo was killed in the past week’s new fighting:
Soldiers from the 82nd Airborne carry the coffin of a colleague killed in Baghdad. In the US military families can only watch and wait for that fateful knock on the door as the toll in Iraq goes up amid some of the bloodiest clashes seen in over a year. (AFP/Getty Images/File/Douglas McFadd)
And here’s the actual page at Getty Images containing the photo—which was originally taken on March 22, and has a very different caption indeed:
BOSTON, MA - MARCH 22: Members of the 82nd Airborne carry the coffin of their comrade Sgt. Daniel Londono from Our Lady of Czestochowa church March 22, 2004 in Boston, Massachusetts. Army Sgt. Daniel J. Londono, 22, of Boston; assigned to the 1st Battalion, 504th Infantry Regiment, 82nd Airborne Division, Fort Bragg, N.C.; died March 13 when an improvised explosive device struck his military vehicle in Baghdad. (Photo by Douglas McFadd/Getty Images)
The left has been demanding to see photos of the coffins and dead soldiers, but the White House has been keeping them mostly out of the range of media cameras. Now we know why.
(Hat tip: Allah.)
Frank says: