August 07, 2006

Blogometer PM Extra I

BLOGGERS VS. MSM II: An International Investigation Righty Bloggers Can Get Behind

Following more evidence of Adnan Hajj dupery righty bloggers are not satisfied with Reuters official response to the growing scandal. Power Line forwards this reder observation after examining the complete works of Hajj: "You are missing the bigger point. There is NO WAY this one guy could be taking all of these pictures - look at the images and dates. Does he have a flying car? The question: is he simply a clearinghouse for Hezbollah propaganda, routed expeditiously through Reuters? Looks like they pay the guy to forward unverified images (sometimes doctored or staged, as you've helped explain) taken by others."

Law professor David Bersteinwrites at Volokh Conspiracy: "And remember how the various news agencies, including Reuters, were shocked at the very suggestion that some photos in Qana might have been staged? Certainly, photographers willing to doctor photos would be willing to stage them."

American Thinker was the first to call for an external investigation: "Reuters now admits supplying the world’s media with crude propaganda pictures, faked by an Arab photographer. The agency’s journalistic standards are now a global laughingstock. If the agency hopes to regain credibility it must appoint an outside panel of experts to review other work of the same photographer, including the controversial photos supplied from Qana."

Michelle Malkin reports that Rush Limbaugh is also calling for an inverstigation into what could be "the tip of the iceburg."

Posted by Conn Carroll at August 7, 2006 03:12 PM