Thursday, August 10, 2006
They were all complicit.
Every so-called "journalist" at Qana was complicit in this ghoulish act of child abuse.
I wonder if anyone will follow up with Associated Press vice president Kathleen Carroll, who defended the Qana stringers in an August 1 news report:
Nothing more pathetic than an unsuspicious journalist.
I wonder if anyone will follow up with Associated Press vice president Kathleen Carroll, who defended the Qana stringers in an August 1 news report:
The AP said information from its photo editors showed the events were not staged, and that the time stamps could be misleading for several reasons, including that web sites can use such stamps to show when pictures are posted, not taken. An AFP executive said he was stunned to be questioned about it. Reuters, in a statement, said it categorically rejects any such suggestion.
"It's hard to imagine how someone sitting in an air-conditioned office or broadcast studio many thousands of miles from the scene can decide what occurred on the ground with any degree of accuracy," said Kathleen Carroll, AP's senior vice president and executive editor.
Carroll said in addition to personally speaking with photo editors, "I also know from 30 years of experience in this business that you can't get competitive journalists to participate in the kind of (staging) experience that is being described."
Photographers are experienced in recognizing when someone is trying to stage something for their benefit, she said.
"Do you really think these people would risk their lives under Israeli shelling to set up a digging ceremony for dead Lebanese kids?" asked Patrick Baz, Mideast photo director for AFP. "I'm totally stunned by first the question, and I can't imagine that somebody would think something like that would have happened."
Nothing more pathetic than an unsuspicious journalist.
Comments:
Post a Comment
