Aug 12, 2006

Llega la reacción

Fuerte ese aplauso. Parece que varios días después de las denuncias en diversos blogs, especialmente en LGF, la prensa profesional se está dando cuenta y admite que existe un sesgo importante en la información que viene del Líbano. Más vale tarde que nunca.

Pero no se preocupen, esto del sesgo anti Israel en las noticias es un invento de la derecha amante de la guerra y de la matanza de civiles (visto en LGF):

Johnson is co-founder with mystery novelist and screenwriter Roger L. Simon of another online site, http://www.pajamas media.com. It aggregates mostly right wing blogs from around the world and has ambitions as a politically inflected alternative news source. It's worth taking the time to go there and to click on the link giddily labeled "Reutersgate." Make what you will of the analysis, much of which is feverish, sneering and tending toward the mechanistically conspiratorial. What's hard to imagine is how anybody can look at the photos and not conclude that they're riddled with journalistic deceit.

Many, including grisly images from the Qana tragedy, clearly are posed for maximum dramatic effect. There is an entire series of photos of children's stuffed toys poised atop mounds of rubble. All are miraculously pristinely clean and apparently untouched by the devastation they purportedly survived. (Reuters might want to check its freelancers' expenses for unexplained Toys R Us purchases.) In some cases, the bloggers seem to have uncovered the same photographer using more than one identity. There's an improbable photo by Hajj of a Koran burning atop the rubble of a building supposedly destroyed by an Israeli aircraft hours before. Nothing else in sight is alight. (With photos, as in life, when something seems too perfect to be true, it's almost always because it is.) In other photos, the same wrecked building is portrayed multiple times with the same older woman — one supposes she ought to be called a model — either lamenting its destruction or passing by in different costumes.

There's more, and it's worth your time to take a look. That's one of the undeniable strengths of the Internet and of the blogosphere, and the fact that it is being employed to help keep journalism honest ultimately is to everybody's benefit.

3 comments:

  1. Observa la "cabeza de misil" en el fraude de http://blogs.20minutos.es/enguerra/posts/view/2962#c58467

    ¡Desopilante!

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  2. Increíble. La famosa cabeza de misil “bombón escocés”. Pero tanta gente se traga estas cosas porque existe el deseo de creer, de condenar a Israel y a los judíos. No todo el mundo es un idiota de ese calibre.

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  3. De Elena por mail:

    En el artículo de LA Times que citas en "Llega la reacción", los últimos párrafos son bien claritos y buenos, desde: "What the major news organizations ought to be doing is to make their own analysis of the images coming out of Lebanon and if, as seems more than likely, they find widespread malfeasance, some hard questions need to be asked about why it occurred..."

    Y etcetera hasta el final. De hecho, verdaderamente hay que preguntarse en serio porque no se hacho más eco de este tema, que a mi modo de ere es un TREMENDO escándalo. Si hubiera sido al evés, no dejaríamos de oir del tema en MESES!

    En fin, lo que dgio, a mi me parece escandaloso.

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