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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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More garbage from a mindless idiot. The US and Israel does the exact same ****. You know why journalists are embedded with the US troops now? Because it acts as a control mechanism. The press report only what the military allows them to report as that is part of the agreement. The press also build up a level or rapport with the troops and wouldn't do anything to harm that relationship, like reporting negative stories. Those reporters that are not attached have to have military escorts and are allowed to shoot only what the military shows them. Beyond that, their safety is not guaranteed and the reporter puts their lives at risk. Hizbollah is taking a page right from the American playbook in Iraq and using the same strategy that has been relatively successful for the war effort there. Man, you should be happy and dancing in the street (watch yourself, I understand they stab people who do that in Edmonton) that Hizbollah was adopting western methods of doing things!