Posted by
Rich from NW Indiana on Tuesday, August 08, 2006 9:50:07 PM
Once upon a time, the media would try to beat each to "press" with the latest news. Not so much today. Instead it seems like a cozy little club that no longer likes to compete with each other. You would think that someone would want something to beat up the competition.
Well there is someone. Only it isn't from the traditional media. Its a blogger. In the case I am writing about it is the blog
Little Green Footballs. Reuters, the wire service many newspapers obtain news stories from, was running doctored photos. Why they thought they could get away with that, I don't know. The photos are poorly done (I used to be a graphic designer so I know) with typical mistakes people make with photoshop.
What gets me is that it is getting little time with the "Mainstream" Media. There is a article on
Christian Science Monitor, but thats about it. They seem to want to bury this one even more then the Dan Rather fake story on the president. I guess that don't want that to happen again, when they were forced to run the story (late of course). Most of the info on this scandal is only found on the blogs. At least Reuters pulled the photos when they were busted, instead of fighting it for no reason. The freelance photography was let go as well, but this goes much higher then him.
Good luck reading about this one at the New York Times. This is one of the most cool things about the internet. People can do more about these types of false and slanted "stories". I am really enjoying reading the other blogs here at Townhall. Maybe someday one of us will break a story that the media misses. You can almost count on it!
UPDATE: Little Green Footballs is reporting that the originals of the doctored photos were mostly likely stolen from the AP wire-service!