Sure, Editor & Publisher continues to attack blogs over the recent fauxtography scandals, but the blogs (bless their confrontational little prole hearts!), continue to fight back—and some in the media have even taken their side!—from Newsday’s Jim Pinkerton to the folks at FOXNews, who just today aired Zombie’s expose of the alleged attacks on Lebanese ambulances (this after they had earlier aired a German TV clip showing Green Helmet man directing the shooting of propaganda footage).
Which, no wonder FOXNews is so reviled. Clearly, such an affront against the journalistic establishment—who is at great pains to minimize the importance of this rash of exposed fakeries—is reason enough to obliquely justify the fate of a kidnapped FOX reporter and his camera man.
Unified voice, people. Unified. Voice.
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There’s got to be a word that rolls up “repulsive,” “loathsome,” and I-can’t-keep-thinking-of-the-words-at-this-hour, that might come close to hinting at a ballpark estimate of my opinion of Bob Laurance’s comment.
The best I can come up with is “the gunk pond scum scrapes off its shoe.”
proggtrescent?
Here’s the letter I sent him, Kev.
You can’t keep insulting people and then expect friendship when you need it.
As Ace said, “They’re not asking for ‘friendship,’ you vicious, vile asshole. They’re asking for a modicum of concern for two human beings’ lives. We’ll even take feigned concern at this point. There is no distinction anymore between the MSM and Democratic Underground. DU openly prays for Steve Centanni’s beheading; the MSM simply says the same thing in slightly more ‘nuanced’ language.”
You disgusting piece of shit. You and the rest of your psychotic brethren on the crazed left don’t even have human feelings. You’re soulless. You’re no different from the islamonazis, so I have no guilt whatsoever in telling you to fuck off and die.
CraigC
San Jose CA
That’s my favorite Hillary quote. She’s so dreamy.
I’m thinking it’s time to implement salary caps on the media. The ratio of reporters to news stories is far to high and the result is manufactured “news”. And while I’m on a mini-rant, talking head news anchors are NOT reporters…they are readers.
I question the timing of these “hoaxes.” Clearly you “bloggers” know no limits in your attempts to derail, defame, deride and depants Lamont. We will not be stopped.
I said GOOD DAY sir.
progloathsive—? Not quite there.
tw: bad
just bad, that’s all
Vetter, is that a Don and Mike reference?
So, since Bob “Who?” Laurence is upset that Fox News “has deliberately set itself apart from other news media,” when do the media critics gather outside the offices of the NYT with pitchforks and torches for that rag’s abject failure to repudiate their reputation as “The Paper of Record”? Why, with a label like that, one might say that the Times is laying claim to being “the one source of the real truth.” That’s not very fair to other news outlets, now is it?
And does this mean they’re going to stop awarding Pulitzers? Wouldn’t want to let some reporters, papers, and other news organizations to set themselves apart. Bad form, that. Not at all sporting.
When all of this started up I offered my two cents on it, from having been through the industry forums on graphic arts and the publication media back in the 1990’s to just a couple of years ago. Basically, there are methods that photojournalists and reputable news sources can use to promote transparency and make available *all* of the images taken by a photographer at an event. Do that will all who cover it and you can work out a geospatial timeline of the event itself.
As the fraud level increased, I suggested a media review panel type to review documentary evidence of events to verify that honest reporting had been performed. Such a panel includes the expertise of the imagery world and examines not only the things viewed in a photo, but questions of the actual technology used and the artifacts it leaves behind to ensure that fraud is not being pulled. For a single image, fraud is relatively easy… but for tens or hundreds from different cameras and sources, it is quite difficult.
I find the initial MSM reaction to be disingenuous at best, and supporting of a system that encourages fraud, misreporting, lies by ommission, and fakes at worst. And as more of the media is turning into fictitious reporting, I am left wanting fictional reporters who, at least, are honest and transparent in their work. I took E&P to task for their glossing over of the issues on their first editorial, and really cannot believe the lack of skill, candor or comprehension with this second individual they put up.
This problem was first batted around the graphic arts and publication world back in the early 1990’s with the emergence of Pshop and desktop publishing. As image capture devices would follow Moore’s Law and computing power double at a given price level in short periods of time, the ability of the individual to do photoretouching was moving from MSM capability to that of the desktop. As this progressed 3D scene rendering, animation and photorealistic rendering of same started to be seen as the *new* issue… and the *old* one still had not been addressed.
The MSM has had over a decade to figure out how to add tranparency and veracity to their reporting. Today, with storage cheap and the ability to make photoarchives readily available inexpensive, those media outlets that do NOT open their archives and those photojournalists who do NOT put *all* their work on an event out for review must be seen as having something to hide. The photogs may worry about the fact that their ‘bad shots’ will be available, but, really, they are *historical* records that give an exact placement of an event in time and place with distinct color capture and motion capture artifacts. Professionals should be willing to say: ‘Yes, I over-record an event, because editors and public needs niches are so variable that I must address the diverse audience wanting to have compelling images of the events I am at.’ That goes for NASCAR races, ballroom dancing and battle damaged areas. Each of those communities has expertise and appreciation of good, contextual images… and, who knows, the photogs might actually SELL a few more this way. Their professional reputations can be *built* this way… while it can be destroyed if they do NOT do it.
Best to start getting this concept and methodology in place *now*, before full 3D scene creation hits the MSM fans in a few years. Adnan Hajj was not captured because of the fraud, but because he was a poor *artist*. How many *good* artists have been doing this same thing and for how long?
Guys, guys – he’s a TV critic. I mean, how much more obviously could he be an ignorant asshole? Huh? I ask ya.
SB: him
self
I love the line from his latest little missive:
“Reminds me of those who deny the Holocaust for political purposes”.
Great, now he’s comparing us to the Iranian President. Brilliant way to show that the MSM is fair and balanced. Idiot.
THAT’S what I was struggling for! Thanks, Mojo.
…though I think even pond scum is generally smart enough not to step in TV critic.
I started wondering about staged news during the Australian riots last year. In one TV news piece, about what xenophobic racists Australians are supposed to be, there was a shot of an immensely fat, shirtless guy snarling into a camera: “This is our land! You are not welcome here! Get out!” At the time, I wondered why is he talking like that into a TV camera? I now think that he must have been coached by the producers to “send a message” to Lebanese in the TV audience.
Turing = common, as in Common decency & ethics, is what’s lacking here.
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