Well...THAT figures from these types

Reuters doesn't have a problem with this policy. They probably allow Hezbullah to be the final photo editors to make sure that a fair and balanced picture is painted on this conflict.

How can we be sure of anything out of Lebanon?

Did Hizblownup round up folks in and stuff them into a school?
Do they deprive them of food and water?

You get my drift. The MSM has been complicit in the propaganda coming out of Lebanon. Therefore everything is suspect.

Sorry for the early OT...

Iran to give Nuclear Birth?

Are we too late? Thanks to the Euroweenies and the UN!

I so wanted to go on the Al Qaida field trip, but mommy wouldn't sign my permission slip.

Who knew that under threat of sudden death reporters and photographers would acquiecse to their handlers?

Are we learning why democracies are demonized more often than dictatorships?

An old friend of mine is a photographer for the Washington Post. He's in Lebanon right now, in fact he was one of the photographers at Qana when green helmet guy was parading around with the baby. Anyhow, his brother - who is a journalist - told me that Hezbollah fighters direct the photojournalists around, telling them what they can and cannot photograph.

The main thing being off limits is photographing any Hezbollah fighters.

Sounds like fabulous state-run nanny state utopia.

Wow, a real feminist watershed moment there, when even the men had to acquiesce to the shouts of a woman.

Hey, you don't go to a movie set and shoot a George Lucas production without permission.

This is all a staged warzone so why should it be any different?
They direct their own shoots. They use their own fauxtogs.

Case closed.

#2 BIG
Reuters doesn't have a problem with this policy.

A news organization doesn't have a problem with CENSORSHIP ?

Sites attempts to give a (lame) excuse to fauxtojournalists for the BS going on with Lebanon coverage. Ha !

/remember Iraq, Kevin ?

This speaks volumes.

BEIRUT, Lebanon - Syria's president has said in TV interview that he would consider the deployment of international troops along the Lebanon-Syria border a "hostile" move toward Syria.

I don't think they have any type of military that would scare anyone except the French.

Kevin Sites is a tool of the enemy.

All Hail the Mighty Caliphate and their Gramscian Media Whores...

How do the N.M.E. have the balls to call these bastards who exemplify totalitarianism
"FREEDOM FIGHTERS"

CENSORSHIP IS FREE EXPRESSION

DEATH IS LIFE

L'Chaim!

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No pictures... unless we get a letter from Hezbollah giving us permission.

That's like the wonderful future in the West:
no speaking about islam, unless you get the permission from CAIR

Not exactly off topic - I was reading Lileks' Bleat today, and ran across this:

Whatever happens today, or doesn’t, there will be those who doubt their lying eyes as a matter of course. Conspiracy theories are a narcotic, inhaled in endless lines; the addict looks at himself bent over the mirror and thinks: you agree with me, don’t you? Then I’m not alone.

I found it remarkably mind-clearing.

Do Hezbollah's permits have a check box for "permission to photoshop"?

Have to wonder what it takes to get such a letter/permit. Charitable contribution? Passport? Home address and family photos?

7 Ringo the Gringo
I didn't know Don Barzini was a Hezbo.

#5 GreginSeattle

Are we too late?

Don't worry, Killer Ted Bundy is not impress. They're not the big boys, so go back to sleep.

MSM, all lies all the time

Pretty much.

The real news you need to know will come to you in scilence.

#5 GregInSeattle
Sorry for the early OT...

Iran to give Nuclear Birth?

Are we too late? Thanks to the Euroweenies and the UN!

Time for a 'late term abortion'.

/sorry, Charles

Kevin Sites: aiding the enemy for years... and proud of it.

#13
How evil do you have to be to consider the UN an enemy?

The UN is at the very least amoral, if not an enemy to the US.

OT: Hugo in action - Winning Arab hearts and minds

Hugo Chavez, the Venezuelan president, found himself at the centre of Middle Eastern politics when he announced that he was withdrawing his most senior diplomat from Israel, the Venezuelan charge d'affaires in Tel Aviv. Not for something Israel did to his country, but for what it does to Palestinians and Lebanese thousands of miles away.

The action was preceded by Chavez's repeated condemnation of what he describes as Israel's "aggression" against Lebanese land and its "genocide" against the Lebanese people. He was the first head of state to say such harsh words towards Israel after violence broke out on the Israeli Lebanese border last month, even before that of any Arab or Muslim country.

Today on many Arabic internet sites one can read comments such as: "I am Palestinian but my president is Chavez, not Abu Mazen." Or: "I don't want to be an Arab. From now on I shall be Venezuelan."

Feh. The mediocre seek the mediocre, and the evil seek the evil.

#13 NJDhockeyfan

BEIRUT, Lebanon - Syria's president has said in TV interview that he would consider the deployment of international troops along the Lebanon-Syria border a "hostile" move toward Syria.

Hostile in the sense of parents taking the keys to the Corvette away from their drunken teenager on Friday night.

Dear Hissboombah,

Can I please have permission to take a piss on a picture of your asswipe Iranian puppet shiitehead dickweed leader?

Sincerely,

--Cato

This goes with the previous story, IMHO. I believe Fox News was targetted for the Gaza kidnappings, because they don't follow the party line of Pali's good, Israeli's bad as much as CNN/Reuters et ux do.

I'll bet that Bob Laurence could walk in there, and take pictures to his hearts content, without any "permit".

Kevin Sites apparently believes women should be seen (only fully covered) and not heard too. Gosh, what a swell guy.

spit

I tell them through Ali that I'm only here to document their lives as people displaced by war.

~snip~

I see what appears to be a boy, about 10.
~snip~
In his hand is a rock the size of a cue ball. He is simply waiting for the signal to hurl it, with all his force, at my head.

Friendly fire?

14 ward cleaver- Yeah that is what I think too. He doesn't need a permit anyway. He can just go into an old building. Get a few people to lay around. Say they are injured and snap away.

Ed Mahmoud of many names:

What does "et ux" mean? It looks vaguely like Latin, my native tongue, but I don't recognize it...

No no, this is all a lie of the Western Crusader Zionists! The holy Qur'an allows complete freedom of the press! Mr. Sites is a Zionist lackey lying to make Islam look bad!

/

Hail Titus!

OT

Another frivolous lawsuit against American taxpayers dropped

[Link: www.debbieschlussel.com...]

Though insightful, I'm no fan of these types of "diary" reporting. It puts the journalist as a story within a story.

I call it "Media Masturbation" and CNN, the BBC and other outlets that interview and have shows on their own journalist are definately going blind.

Ave Cato!

Do you know why you do not see any pictures of Hezzbollah fighters?

There are just some pictures of men and sheep you just do not want to see!

Well, this is a repeating theme with Hizbullah, given that they did the same with Michael Totten - intimidating him when he was invited to a Hizbullah event by taking away his passport and asking questions without any provocation. During the latest fighting, Hizbullah did the same to journalists who followed the fighting in Lebanon, again with the purpose of intimidating and altering the nature of the coverage overtly and subtly.

It is somewhat refreshing that Sites would mention that he's been forced to submit his coverage to Hizbullah's oversight, and one has to wonder how many other reporters and stringers in Lebanon were subject to the same restrictions and wrote or said nothing of the limitations. That's the problem - that these journalists are reporting from Lebanon and saying nothing of how their coverage is being filtered through HizbullahTV/media relations - in effect becoming propagandists for Hizbullah/Jihad Inc.

Ave
Atque
Vale

time for the nap

#34 Cato:

What does "et ux" mean?

Ooh! Ooh! Mistah Kottah! I know this one!

Short for "et uxor", "and spouse".

#34 Cato the Elder

Et uxorum? And lovers?

/wild guess

... and I think Ed meant to write "et al".

Shalom BabbaZee!

#45 Occasional Reader

... and I think Ed meant to write "et al".

Al who?

#37 shug

I get an "error" page.

Maybe it's just me.

Kevin Who?

Hey Hiz'b'Allah,

Picture which finger I'm holding up.

OT Re: Katrina

This is very cool!

President George W. Bush smiles as he stands with Rockey Vaccarella during a statement to the media Wednesday, Aug. 23, 2006, on the White House lawn. Vaccarella, who lost his home in the wake of Hurricane Katrina and who drove to Washington D.C. to speak directly to the President, told reporters, "I just don't want the government and President Bush to forget about us," adding, "If we had this President for another four years, I think we'd be great." White House photo by Kimberlee Hewitt

Ya gotta love Rocky. View the webcast...

Of course...they have to pull the dead babies out of storage to strategically place them before a photo can be taken.

republic.
thanks.
she has a bad " trackback" link

just do to [Link: www.debbieschlussel.com...] homepage and the article is on the first page today

Charles? from Curmudgeonly & Skeptical:
Senate backs plan to give electoral votes to popular vote winner

/I think this is what Aug 22 was all about;-)

Above link no good. Try this

[Link: www.whitehouse.gov...]

Sites' stuff is hilariously self-glorifying, to the point of parody.

I mean, check out the photo captions:

Kevin Sites reporting in southern Lebanon

Kevin Sites reports from the scene immediately following a strike in downtown Tyre

Kevin Sites and other journalists
helped the weak evacuate Bint Jbail

What's with today's Amsterdam airline turnback fighter-jet brouhaha?

The latest update says that TWELVE PASSENGERS WERE ARRESTED!

What the MSM should do is say
"OK, then, no pictures from here. We'll publish picutes of wounded Israelis, and their wrecked buildings. No one will know what happens to you."

And then tell the world about how Hisbullshit and Ham-ass are attacking Israel, and not how some of their terrorist spawn are getting killed because the attacks from Israel use them as shields.

#47 TQC:

Al who?

Well, duh, Al Gore, inventor of the internet.

Okay, NOW I'm going to lunch.

#54 Re: NotThatGordo has already linked to the California breaking federal laws AP link:
[Link: littlegreenfootballs.com...]

It was a Northwest Airlines (US-owned) flight from Amst to Mumbai, turned back shortly after takeoff. This BBC article is NOT the latest update, but twelve passengers were subsequently arrested:

[Link: news.bbc.co.uk...]

OT

Baby Assad threatens UN "peacekeepers"

The moslems never miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity.

Asshat obviously doesn't realize the only thing protecting him from an Israeli missile enema is the UN.

Re my previous post

Since I know the MSM won't stop reporting from Hizbollistan and Hamasistan, the least they should do is put in each story and pictures the note "Article cleared by Hizbollah/Hamas censors" like the often do with stories from Israel.

26 And even more OT, but related to your post, the Venezuelan little league team just beat the imported kuffar kingdom of saudi arabia team yesterday.

? shrug Arabs are like rats and ships. they only stay with the good ones.

Blue Chip:

Because of the cease-fire I was able to take a tour through Nazareth and the Galilee on Saturday. As we pulled into Nazareth, a very ugly little boy of about six stood at the side of the bus and chucked little stones at us as we waited for the light to change.

Our tour guide was unimpressed. She's been shot at, tear-gassed, rescued a couple of times by Israeli security people. All in a day's work.

Man, but that kid was one ugly little fucker.

As some of you know, I am here with Haku the Wonder Dog. He has been prancing around with his head held high the whole time, enjoying the way the Israelis make a big fuss over him.

But in Nazareth he slunk around with his tail between his legs, literally. I finally decided to leave him in the bus with the driver while I did the walking tour. The distaste and anger of the Arab Muslims at me and my horrible un-Islamic creature were palpable. I've never seen him react that way.

Smart dog.

61 chicken kiev. 12 passengers arrested? very nice

I heard something about an Air Tran flight diverted to Charlotte today too? Just a blip on the radio this morning. Any news on that?

#41 Lawhawk

CNN incorporated it into one of their stories how one could only photograph what the Hezbos said and the staging of an "ambulance swarm". They then mentioned how they'd had enough of the BS and shut down. It did not paint the Hezbos in a favorable light.

#5 greg in seattle:

I saw that, and think that it could mean one of two things. One is that the Iranians have figured out their centrifuge problems and are on track to deploy their larger centrifuge arrays for enriching uranium.

The other is that they figured out the problems a while back, and have actually started producing weapons grade.

The only difference between the two is the time needed to have nuclear weapons. No matter how you cut it, this is real bad news, and the UN is completely useless (once again, but I'm repeating myself).

#61 chicken kiev:
It's interesting how the plane was intercepted, turned around, and subsequently 12 were arrested. I found my experience at US airports this past week to be uneven in the security department, and that's not a comforting thought.

Makes one realize just how rare pics of Hizballah really are.
(Scroll up)

The Islamists probably would have killed every one of the women for enticing men by showing their bare wrist in a photograph.
That's their sand box and they can do with it what they please.

Generally speaking, these may seem like isolated incidents now, but with the spread of radical Islam, you will see this type of thing more and more, and their trumph card is intimidation. They aren't afraid to riot in support of their stupid rules, and they don't care that they are in your country not theirs. They will still insist that you abide by their "sensitivities" even in your own place, and we are becoming far too PC to tell them to back off.

#14 - i couldn't agree with you more! i have found kevin's reporting to be very biased. his pictures of israel were mostly "good" images (people talking and relaxing), and in lebanon they were all negative. same with his rhetoric.

maybe now, he'll think differently.

Hey our good buddy Kevin "America MUST See That Double Tap" Sites has little issue with the Hezzies playing censor...

"nice"...

#65 Cato…

Smart dog.

I’ll say. Give him a pat for me…

Stay safe.

Another interesting excerpt,

He's in a fighting stance with his left foot forward, while his eyes are locked onto me. What I find strange is that his face shows no emotion, no anger, no fear — nothing but intense focus. A glance down at his right hand and I quickly understand why I am the object of his resolve.

In his hand is a rock the size of a cue ball. He is simply waiting for the signal to hurl it, with all his force, at my head.

Such lovely people. Lets give them $230 million of U.S. taxpayer money.

Thanks Condi. Truly inspired diplomacy there.

OT re: Amsterdam flight.

Earlier this morning, I caught a moment of CNN while Fox was in commercials and Soledad O'Brien was interviewing a Dutch journo. (From memory so might not be exact wording.)

Dutchguywithfingerindike: It's not terrorism.

CNNgal: How do you know that?

Dutchguyneedingmorethanfinger: The plane wasn't going to America.

CNNgal: No, but there were 4 bombings in Mumbai last month.

Dutchdhummi: (crickets etc)

song_and_dance_man

Hi, Thank you for the recent email I requested.

God Bless

Serious stuff:
Iran has obtained German guidance gear for its drones used in Lebanon, just hours after the revelation that Britain had supplied night-vision equipment to Iran which ended up in the hands of Hezbollah fighters.
[Link: regimechangeiran.blogspot.com...]
Fun stuff: Photoshop of result
[Link: i89.photobucket.com...]

#62 Totally Serious

[Link: www.foxnews.com...]
Last paragraph:

Assad did not elaborate on that point in the excerpts. But in Finland, that country's foreign minister, after meeting with his Syrian counterpart, said Damascus threatened to close its border with Lebanon if U.N. peacekeepers were deployed there.

LoL...uhhh...thank you, Damascus?

[Link: news.bbc.co.uk...]

Martin Asser again.

Charles - I'm pretty sure this "no photos without Hizb'allah permission" thread belongs in the Fauxtography summary up top.

There is no way this would affect the way the conflict is covered.

/Kos off
/moonbat off

Well, Kevin, maybe you should grow a scraggly foot-long beard and start praying to Allah. Then they'll probably let you take your lousy pictures.

I see what appears to be a boy, about 10.
~snip~
In his hand is a rock the size of a cue ball. He is simply waiting for the signal to hurl it, with all his force, at my head.

If they're evil at 10 years old, then it automatically follows that they'll be evil throughout their lives - especially as their lives are guided by the hateful texts of the Koran, sira and hadith. So much for those who use the word 'innocent children' to describe these child savages because they're as far removed as it is possible to get from the children we see every day of our lives here in the comfortable West.

Hey, CAIR, just in case you're reading this thread, thinking that WE are not thinking about you today, I have not told you to "f*ck off" today...so, "fu*k off".