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Speaking of reporting, I noticed something both odd and disturbing about the relationship between headlines and pictures on MSNBC and several newspapers (probably using the same wire service), on at least a couple occasions (I didn't take the time to copy links at the time, and I don't remember specifically which days, so I suppose this counts as hearsay):
On the front page, a large picture showing survivors and rescue workers holding each other and weeping over battered bodies in the rubble, a compelling picture of human misery - above the picture, a large headline saying something like Rockets Continue to Pound Israel - and, under the strikingly tragic picture, the small-print caption which indicates that this scene of graphic destruction (seemingly accompanying the headline, yes??) is actually in Beirut after an attack by the IDF, and the grieving relatives (and the dead) are in fact Lebanese.
To anyone skimming the front page on the newsstand, or simply not reading carefully, the obvious connection (and emotional response) is ISRAELI SURVIVORS CLUTCHING THEIR DEAD CHILDREN AFTER A HEZBOLLAH ROCKET ATTACK, a gross distortion of what the image actually shows. I don't know whether this was done deliberately or through gross journalistic negligence (probably the latter, but who knows), but I wonder what kind of effect this sort of thing has had on the (already) muddled American view of the war and the various parties involved? |
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