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Originally Posted by HOZ
You are right. But this is a case of the media helping out with the cause. AP, Reuters, NYT, WAPO, BBC and such organisations paying local stringers to run around and take photos and then playing make believe that these locals are unbaised photojournalists and taking each and every picture at face value.
Plus on top of the fact that the journalists do not tell the public that when they are in Lebenon they have Hezbollah minders that tell them which pictures to take and with not to take. So we end up with the idea that Beirut was obliterated in a IAF WWII-like carpet bombing campaign. When in fact the area bombed was a small area that was Hezbollah's command and control base. We have Mr Green Helmet run around showing a dead child's body to several different news orgs over a 2 hour period. The guy pulled the bodies from Ambulances so the photographers could have more graphic shots.
Nevermind the usual stupid sensationalism the media helped spew as well. Qana bombing; What was the original body count? 60-70? Now it is less than thirty. A horrible event nonetheless, yet smacks of the Jenin Massacre BS.
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I am certainly not oblivious to Hezbollah's role in all of this - there is definitely an element of staging to be sure...I have heard about the handlers that the press have in Lebanon, but I see it no differently than the embedded network reporters with the US marines during the Iraq invasion nor Anderson Cooper and John Roberts shotgunning with the IDF in this conflict...both are propaganda at some level.
I only ask that people look past their entrenched views to see that both sides do similar things...
The Reuters photographer is an idiot - but I certainly wouldn't paint all media as being biased towards Hezbollah because of that one incident.