Say Anything Blog

Richard at EU Referendum (warning: graphic pictures at the link) has an interesting analysis of photos taken by journalists at the site of the building collapse in Qana, the nature of which has already come into question. It would seem as though, if one studies the timeline of the pictures and those pictured in them, the bodies from the building were carried about and displayed for photographers...a fairly blatant act of anti-Israel propaganda that was apparently eaten up whole without any questions from the journalists.

Whatever else, the event in Qana was a human tragedy. But the photographs do not show it honestly. Rather, they have been staged for effect, exploiting the victims in an unwholesome manner. In so doing, they are no longer news photographs - they are propaganda. And, whoever said the camera cannot lie forgot that photographers can and do. Those lies have spread throughout the world by now and will be in this morning's newspapers, accepted as real by the millions who view them.

Read the whole thing.