At the site that combines radical Islam and the radical left, uruknet.info (a news source that meets the high standards of Google News): www.uruknet.info...] :: news from occupied Iraq - ch" target="_blank">www.uruknet.info…] :: news from occupied Iraq - ch” target=”_blank”>Doctoring Photographs or Censoring War Crimes?

The war lovers and child massacre apologists at Ynet News and obvious government psyop faux right wing cut-out alternative news site ‘Little Green Footballs’ (LGF) have taken the fact that a Reuters photographer, Adnan Hajj, blatantly “cloned” smoke in an image of an Israeli bombing in Lebanon to not-so-subtly suggest that all of Reuters images from Lebanon might be faked and therefore that we should all ignore Israeli massacres in Lebanon.

Referring to the image, neo-fascist Charles Johnson of the LGF blog told his favorite Israeli daily tabloid, YNet News:

“A photographer who would blatantly falsify an entire ‘news’ image would certainly not be above posing and staging photographs of rescue workers.”

It is no surprise that this comes hot on the heels of the comments by Dean Rotbart, host and executive producer of Newsroom Confidential an la-BASED weekly one-hour radio program that “offers listeners an insider’s guide to journalists and public relations”, where he stated:

“How do words — no matter how true and rational — compete with photos of wailing mothers carrying their dead babies?” asks Dean Rotbart, host and executive producer of the program. “It is next to impossible to try to go on camera and explain any justification whatsoever for the compelling visual images that are aired over and over again.

”Yet if the world at large thinks with its heart instead of its head, terrorism will prevail.“ Indeed, the terrorists understand and harness the enormous power of emotional news coverage to win support for their deadly goals.”

Indeed, how do you compete with the “true and rational” when your goal is to spread lies and disinformation? I mean, what’s a closet Zionist to do when images of dead Lebanese children are “unfairly” grabbing the headlines and, god forbid, making Israel look like it is murdering innocent children (which it is). This isn’t what the pro-Israel mainstream media is meant to be doing!

Apparently, the answer is to find an image by a Reuters photographer that he has allegedly “touched up” (not “staged” mind you, just touched up a little) and then use that fact to imply that ALL photographs of dead Lebanese civilians should be viewed with extreme suspicion, that they may, in fact, be totally “staged”. The goal, of course, is to find a way, any way, to stop the world (and in particular Western citizens) from finally understanding that Israel, along with the American and British governments, is and always has been the aggressor in the Middle East conflict.

And speaking of Google News, let us note once again that although they include many sites as deranged as uruknet.info, they’ve refused to include LGF in their news index for years now. Searching for “Adnan Hajj” at Google News returns a host of sites linking to and talking about LGF … but not LGF itself: ‘adnan hajj’ - Google News.