Comments for "Photo Fraud in Lebanon" Video at VideoSift.com

By theo47

theo47 (http://www.videosift.com/member/theo47) — Thu, 17 Aug 2006 10:31:04 -0700

Thank you for exonerating Israel, who are of course, holy and blameless. Their precision bombing has always targeted terrorists, and not one innocent person has lost their lives.

By joedirt

joedirt (http://www.videosift.com/member/joedirt) — Thu, 17 Aug 2006 10:40:14 -0700

what annoys me is that this video never compares the before and after photoshopped smoke over Beruit photo. Also, they waste a ton of time about a woman who is photographed two weeks apart. Odds are it is the same day and different reporters, then the newpaper just used stock footage. Or maybe the woman who was bombed out really showed up twice when the newscrews came around a week later.

Anyways, no one at LGF complained about DeWine taking a pre-9/11 photo and photoshopping smoke, to be used for a attack campaign ad. So they are a bunch of hypocritical morans. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KLIKMMtsOfM

By Wumpus

Wumpus (http://www.videosift.com/member/Wumpus) — Thu, 17 Aug 2006 14:41:04 -0700

But of course this is all just Zionist propaganda because the Jews control all the media and because we all know Hezballah is also holy and blameless. Their rocket attacks were all precisely fired to hit only military targets and not a single innocent Israeli has lost their life.

We can make excuses for the media all day long because it's not like they have a responsibility to scrutinize photographs and uphold the highest levels of journalistic integrity. Even Anderson Cooper had the guts to tell his audience that Hezballah sent ambulances out one at a time to race up and down the highway so the media could photograph them, even though they weren't responding to any emergencies.

By Krupo

Krupo (http://krupo.videosift.com) — Thu, 17 Aug 2006 22:30:08 -0700

That DeWine ad is wild - have you sifted it up yet? Sift sift sift!

BTW, what's "LGF"? Little Green Footballs?

This vid only included the photo fraud scandal, there were other instances of manipulation - I've said it before and I'll say it again, this was *completely* like the Brotherhood of Nod. Life imitating art indeed.

By joedirt

joedirt (http://www.videosift.com/member/joedirt) — Fri, 18 Aug 2006 03:10:02 -0700

Yeah, LGF is in the beginning of this vid, credited with 'outing' the media. They claim their goal is to destroy the media, but as with all things rightwing, the media ia already uber-corporate... So it's just ironic.

By James Roe

James Roe (http://jamesroe.videosift.com) — Fri, 18 Aug 2006 12:09:35 -0700

"But of course this is all just Zionist propaganda because the Jews control all the media and because we all know Hezballah is also holy and blameless."

well, Aish.com the site that put this video together is a jewish website, whose tag line is "Your Life, Your Judaism. The Jewish Website." So it does seem plausible that they have a vested interest in directing public discussion of the war in Lebanon. Personally I don't know enough about the situation in Lebanon to have an opinion about Israel's attacks. However, as an American I find it pretty reprehensible that our government supplies Israel or any other government for that matter with machines of war.

By Wumpus

Wumpus (http://www.videosift.com/member/Wumpus) — Fri, 18 Aug 2006 13:42:21 -0700

aish.com...never heard of it and I'm not Jewish. Anyway, I was being facetious.

So if you find it reprehensible that our government supplies Israel with weapons, you're entitled to your opinion, but do you find it equally reprehensible that Iran also supplies Hezballah with weapons as well?

By James Roe

James Roe (http://jamesroe.videosift.com) — Fri, 18 Aug 2006 15:22:35 -0700

Wumpus, I find weapons reprehensible. Although I would argue that the nuclear bombs that Israel has are perhaps more dangerous than short range missiles. At any rate the whole thing is a nightmare, the mullahs in Iran are clearly interested in destabalizing the region. I wish that they could follow Dubai and invest in infrastructure.

By Wumpus

Wumpus (http://www.videosift.com/member/Wumpus) — Fri, 18 Aug 2006 19:23:17 -0700

So is it, or isn't it equally reprehensible?

But Iran following Dubai is more then just wishful thinking. They're not interested in infrastructure, they're interested in fundamental Islamic rule. They already control a vast amount of oil and they want nuclear weapons. Iran doesn't just want to destabilise the region, they want to take over the entire world and with their friends in Russia, China, North Korea and Venezuela they are in a position to do it...or at least put a tremendous portion of the world in a lot of suffering. Iran and militant Islam is a very serious threat.

By bnsa

bnsa (http://www.videosift.com/member/bnsa) — Tue, 22 Aug 2006 01:34:14 -0700

I could careless at who's at war or who's doing what. The point I got out of this video is that photo manipulation has been observed from trusted news agencies along with the evidence and to not believe everything you see. Not who's right or wrong in the war.

By Devlin

Devlin (http://www.videosift.com/member/Devlin) — Wed, 06 Sep 2006 13:41:26 -0700

Personally: I have always been a big fan of black glass.

By bamdrew

bamdrew (http://www.videosift.com/member/bamdrew) — Wed, 06 Sep 2006 18:57:17 -0700

Reuters responds in each of these known cases by removing all pictures by the individuals who committed fraud and by barring them from future freelance employment. Most of these pictures were taken by 2 photographers, both of whom are basicly unemployable by the world press now do to the damage they've done to Reuter's reputation.