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Rob - 04:04am on 04/10/2006
Ugh...

Thanks to digital technology, the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are the most photographed in history. Photographers with digital cameras have provided, almost instantaneously, an enormous flood of accurate, dramatic, and even shocking images to people around the world. But the daily downloads of news photos include some that are staged, fake, or so lacking in context as to be meaningless, despite the Western media's best efforts to separate the factual from the fictional.


Journalists faking or staging news photos, most of which reflect negatively on the war effort and President Bush's foreign policies, while facing almost no consequences when they are discovered.

Why should we trust these people again?

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