Altered States
Posted August 16th, 2006 by Chip Bok
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It turns out a freelance photographer for Reuters has been blowing smoke on his pictures. Adnan Hajj was fired for using Photoshop to doctor Beirut bombing photos. Reuters removed all 920 of Hajj's pictures from its database.
Like the smoke in my cartoon? Photoshop.
August 16th, 2006 at 10:50 am
Seeing as though the US armed Israel and helped with the planning of the Lebanon invasion, it would have been just
as appropriate to have Bush's hand up an Israeli puppet's butt.
August 20th, 2006 at 8:39 pm
Mencken is a complete idiot.
No recognition that it was Hezbollah that started the whole thing by invading Israel, murdering Israeli soldiers, and kidnapping two of them.
The U.S. helped plan the Lebanon invasion? That's another howler. The IDF may have a lot of U.S. made arms, but they've never looked to Uncle Sam for how to use them.
Mike Rohrer
August 21st, 2006 at 10:07 am
Mike.. from Sy Hersh's piece in the New Yorker:
"The Bush Administration, however, was closely involved in the planning of Israel’s retaliatory attacks. President Bush and Vice-President Dick Cheney were convinced, current and former intelligence and diplomatic officials told me, that a successful Israeli Air Force bombing campaign against Hezbollah’s heavily fortified underground-missile and command-and-control complexes in Lebanon could ease Israel’s security concerns and also serve as a prelude to a potential American preëmptive attack to destroy Iran’s nuclear installations, some of which are also buried deep underground."
August 21st, 2006 at 11:42 pm
Hersh says it is OK to lie:
http://newyorkmetro.com/nymetro/news/people/features/11719/
August 22nd, 2006 at 4:03 am
Conratulations on your Google search Slope… but that's not what he said.
August 22nd, 2006 at 4:35 am
I thought the link provided some very interesting insights into the alternate reality you and that old has-been seem to live in, Mencken.
And, yes, that is what he said.
August 22nd, 2006 at 7:43 am
Larry, if you call changing someone's name or changing a date
slightly to protect a source, then fine, Hersh is a liar- just like I'm a liar for using a psuedonym here so I don't lose my job… Just like Woodward and Bernstein changed Mark Felt's name to Deep Throat…. We're all liars.
If you don't understand what a protected source is, or what "off the record" means, or citing an anonymous source, then investigative journalism must be a very confusing thing to you.
Calling Hersh a has-been? As that as good as it gets?
What were you….ever?
August 22nd, 2006 at 9:02 am
Hersh acknowledges that he goes way beyond changing names and dates to protect sources, at least in his speeches.
There are ways writers can avoid citing anonymous sources in any case. In the old days, they'd confirm "off the record" information through other avenues. Journalists are just too lazy to do so nowadays, several high-ranking editors at national publications have told me.
By the way, I'm happy to hear you're gainfully employed, but why would you get fired for commenting on Bok's blog? Do you work for the Chinese government?
August 22nd, 2006 at 10:42 am
"Journalists are just too lazy to do so nowadays, several high-ranking editors at national publications have told me."
The editors that told you that are has-beens and hacks….
Didn't you get the memo?