Jackpot: BBC cops to taking staged photos in Bint Jbail
posted at 5:15 pm on August 21, 2006 by Allahpundit
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This being the Middle East, naturally it involves the dangerous exploitation of a child.
The only surprise is that they admitted it.
Newsbusters makes another nice fauxtography catch, apparently identifying Green Helmet’s long-lost sidekick: “Red Cross.” Like GH, by day Red Cross is a mild-mannered civil service worker, by night a crusading corpse photographer. And at the site of an airstrike, he magically turns into both at once.
The real outrage today is a case of non-fauxtography, though. Joe Rosenthal, who took the shot of Marines from Easy Company raising the flag on Mt. Suribachi, died yesterday. Seizing an opportunity to both impugn an immortal symbol of American valor and minimize Reutersgate by comparison, E&P marked the occasion by recycling old rumors about the photo having been staged. At least one lefty blogger picked it up; Confederate Yankee tried to correct them, with predictable results. But it wasn’t entirely futile: his post on the matter drew an e-mail from none other than David Perlmutter, a professor of photojournalism who wrote that now-famous piece in E&P the other day about the crisis in the industry. CY reprinted his e-mail as an update to the post. Go ye and read.
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But in todays delusional world, the left thinks this is perfectly acceptable! That’s why they had no qualms in admitting it.
darwin on August 21, 2006 at 5:30 PM
Joe Rosenthal knew what the Truth was, and who brought it to the world in 1945. E&P, Reuters, and the AP no longer have a clue what the Truth is, and think they are the ones who bring the Truth to the world. Freedom brings the Truth. Backed up by Men who give their lives for that Freedom.
E&P, al-Reuters, and the AP aren’t worth Joe Rosenthal’s spit.
Subsunk out.
Subsunk on August 21, 2006 at 5:49 PM
What a foreboding conclusion…
Entelechy on August 21, 2006 at 6:44 PM
It is maddening and heartbreaking that pro photogs havent spoken up before this..how about policing your OWN industry? Everyone KNEW this was happening!
labwrs on August 21, 2006 at 7:03 PM
Now THIS is a staged photo. (Scroll down to see Kerry’s version of Iwo Jima on the cover of his book.)
NTWR on August 21, 2006 at 7:38 PM
Couple of months after Joe Rosenthal took these photos, correspondent Ernie Pyle was killed by sniper fire on the island of lejima, a few kilometers from Okinawa.
I don’t know why I mention that, except to say that if you haven’t read any of Ernie’s columns, you should.
daveintexas on August 21, 2006 at 8:45 PM
Thank you for the Ernie Pyle story. I read of book of his war columns as a kid. My parents got it in the Book-of the-Month Club back in the days when Americans took self enlightenment seriously and when Americans unabashedly loved their country.
Love is the word. Al Capp the cartoonists said during the Vietnam era, we gave our kids everything but failed to teach them love of country.
Anyone with a drop of Love in them could not perpetuate the contunual frauds we are being drenched with. Anyone with a capacity to love could not ever hate this nation so much to bring it down with lies
entagor on August 22, 2006 at 1:56 PM
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