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Every year, when the Palestinian whinefest known as “Nakba” rolls around, the wire services dutifully publish photo after photo of Palestinians holding keys, “symbolizing” the loss of their houses in 1948 when the state of Israel was established. But this year we have the most ridiculous example yet — an ...
Palestinians, Nakba, Propaganda, Fauxtography, staging, Associated Press, Media Bias
Iran’s “new unmanned aircraft” happens to be an Israeli Heron 1. (But their nuclear program is the real thing.)
Iran, Nuclear Weapons, Ahmadinejad, Nuclear Proliferation, Fauxtography, Israel
The Huffington Post has admitted they posted a doctored video intended to make radio host John Gibson look like a racist: Huffpo Red in the Face Over Fox News Hoax. Kudos go to johnny dollar’s place for breaking this story.
Israel National News has a pretty fair and complete account of the controversy over that staged hospital room video from Gaza: Bloggers Uncover Possible CNN Video Fraud. Most of the mainstream media are ignoring the story, of course, because it leads to issues they’d rather not explore—e.g., the ethics of ...
Palestinians, Hamas, Gaza, Terrorism, Israel, Propaganda, Fauxtography, Pallywood, CNN, Media Bias, mads gilbert
In a video interview at Norway’s Channel 2 wesbite, radical Marxist pro-Hamas doctor Mads Gilbert says to his critics, “Bring it on!” Also see: CAMERA Snapshots: Norwegian Doctors Return from Gaza to Attack their Critics LGF: Norwegian Doctor in Gaza Supported 9/11 Attacks LGF: A Staged Scene in a ...
Palestinians, Hamas, Gaza, Terrorism, Israel, Propaganda, Fauxtography, Pallywood, CNN, Media Bias, mads gilbert
In his latest excuse for the New York Times’ biased coverage, “public editor” Clark Hoyt casually claims that a Times reporter unmasked a fake Iranian missile photo. Witty and his colleagues are frustrated because Israel has barred journalists from entering Gaza, and although The Times has two photographers in ...
Iran, Fauxtography, New York Times, Media Bias, Media Ethics
This is an email sent to us by Paul Martin, who supplied Western media with that Gaza hospital video. Martin demands an apology from bloggers, and insists that we have no reason to be suspicious of video footage that comes from a Hamas-linked photographer and a radical Marxist doctor. We ...
Palestinians, Hamas, Gaza, Terrorism, Israel, Propaganda, Fauxtography, Pallywood, CNN, Media Bias, mads gilbert, Paul Martin
At Erik Svansbo’s Swedish blog, more information about the pro-terrorist agenda of Mads Gilbert, the doctor seen in that staged video from a Gaza hospital: Doctor in CNN video outspoken communist and pro-terror. The doctor’s colleague actually told the Aftonbladet newspaper that spreading pro-Hamas propaganda is more important to them ...
Palestinians, Hamas, Gaza, Terrorism, Israel, Propaganda, Fauxtography, Pallywood, CNN, Media Bias, mads gilbert
A good point about the disputed CNN Gaza hospital video, from Richard Landes: Let’s See Mr. Mashharawi’s Rushes.
Palestinians, Hamas, Gaza, Terrorism, Israel, Propaganda, Fauxtography, Pallywood, CNN, Media Bias
European LGF reader “morning star” points out another interesting connection between the Norwegian doctor Mads Gilbert, and “freelance photographer” Ashraf Mashharawi: Please note that Mads Gilbert knows or is part of a group in his home town Tromsoe in Norway, who long have planned to make a film together ...
Palestinians, Hamas, Gaza, Terrorism, Israel, Propaganda, Fauxtography, Pallywood, CNN, Media Bias
Here’s an interesting update to the story of the obviously staged video from Gaza promoted and vouched for by CNN. The company that provided this video story to CNN and several other news outlets is World News & Features, as we pointed out yesterday after CNN published their defense of ...
Palestinians, Hamas, Gaza, Terrorism, Israel, Propaganda, Fauxtography, Pallywood, CNN, Media Bias
CNN insists that the Gaza video is genuine, and they’ve reposted it. This is their only response to the criticism that the “CPR” shown in the video is an obvious pantomime: Responding to accusations that the resuscitation efforts of Mashharawi’s brother appeared inauthentic, Martin said that, based on his ...
Palestinians, Hamas, Gaza, Terrorism, Israel, Propaganda, Fauxtography, Pallywood, CNN, Media Bias
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Palestinians, Hamas, Gaza, Terrorism, Israel, Propaganda, Fauxtography, Pallywood, CNN, Poll
I just did a spot for PJTV on that staged video from a Gaza hospital, and some questions that came up: Why hasn’t CNN made any kind of statement about this? They yanked the video from the page where it was posted, so obviously they know there’s a problem. Are ...
Palestinians, Hamas, Gaza, Terrorism, Israel, Propaganda, Fauxtography, Pallywood, CNN
Norwegian doctor Mads Gilbert, a radical Marxist who openly supports Hamas and the 9/11 hijackers, is seen once again in this CNN video about the death of a “freelance cameraman’s” brother in Gaza — and the footage in the hospital room was very likely staged for propaganda effect. [Video] A ...
Palestinians, Hamas, Gaza, Terrorism, Israel, Propaganda, Fauxtography, Pallywood
In the midst of a liveblogging session on the conflict in Gaza, the Muqata raised the alarm about a possible fauxtograph: The Muqata: Day 12 of the War, Wednesday, January 7, 2009. The picture he noticed was filed by AP photographer Adel Hana in Gaza: An explosion is ...
Fauxtography, Reuters, Associated Press, Media Bias, Gaza, Propaganda
We should not forget that every television image and every news photograph coming out of Gaza right now is filtered through Hamas. The photographers filing pictures for Reuters, Associated Press, and Agence France Presse are all Palestinians, and all propagandists for Hamas—or they wouldn’t be allowed to take pictures in ...
Palestinians, Hamas, Gaza, Terrorism, Israel, Propaganda, Associated Press, Reuters, Agence France Press, Media Bias, Fauxtography, staging
Associated Press Palestinian photographer Khalil Hamra seems to be the AP’s inside man when it comes to pictures of Hamas and Islamic Jihad, and this photo (shown below) that he filed yesterday has all the marks of being staged. Were these apparently unhurt children deliberately arranged on a stretcher next ...
Palestinians, Hamas, Gaza, Rockets, Terrorism, Israel, Pallywood, Fauxtography, Associated Press
Apparently ABC News didn’t get the memo that a recent photograph from North Korea featuring Kim Jong-Il was a probable fake, because they’re publishing another version of it again today. Here’s an article at the London Times about this piece of apparent fauxtography: Photoshop failure in Kim Jong Il image? ...
It might be the first peer-reviewed study that begins with the words, “OK, now things are getting weird.” Reviewing Fauxtography: A blog-driven challenge to mass media power without the promises of networked publicity. Abstract During the Israel–Hezbollah War of 2006, bloggers caught Reuters publishing doctored images from Lebanon. Known ...
Fauxtography, Reuters, Academia, Hezbollah, Lebanon, Media Bias
Documentary filmmaker Errol Morris interviewed me a few weeks ago about the Iranian fauxtography incident, and today the interview and his excellent piece on the use of faked photos is in the New York Times: Photography as a Weapon - Errol Morris.
Media Backspin has some information on Iran’s SEPAH news network, responsible for floating that faked missile launch photograph to Western news sources.
LGF, Iran, Nuclear Proliferation, Shahab 3 Missile, Fauxtography
At least one of the photographs released today by Iran and published by an unquestioning Western media is a Photoshop fake: (Hat tip: webs87.) UPDATE at 7/9/08 8:20:34 pm: An animated version at Suitably Flip: Mahmoud the Fauxtographer. UPDATE at 7/10/08 9:25:53 am: Here’s another one for my collection: ...
Fauxtography, Shahab 3 Missile, Nuclear Proliferation, Iran, LGF, Photoshop
Sheesh. How embarrassing for Fox News to get busted by moonbat attack site Media Matters with stupid Photoshopped pictures of New York Times reporters: Fox News airs altered photos of NY Times reporters.