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None more so than when used by the politicised broadcast media, such as the BBC and CNN. A tightly framed shot of chanting imbeciles that is gone in twenty seconds doesn’t allow for detailed analysis.

But it certainly gets the desired message across.

I wouldn’t be suprised to find out that half of them were paid to show up for the pictures…..

Palistinian street theater is becoming a worldwide event these days.

Oh. OH! That reminds me — BBC is going on strike. Who knew state-run media could strike? And they’ve voted to make it coincide with the Tory party conference.

Oh, no partisanship THERE.

They probably needed the time off to put on their SEIU shirts (or whatever union fulfils that niche in the U.K.) and go beat the shit out of a few hapless schlubs at the conference…….

don’t you LOVE pictorial misinformation? It’s like “where’s waldo” only with more extremists.

The only thing missing from these pics is Islamic Rage Boy with a Pancake on his head….. 🙂

Bearded rage guy on the left has a fab-U-lous henna job on the facial hair! I’m sure his goats swoon every time he he sashays by…

It happens in radio too. I was listening to NPR news a couple of months back when they were reporting a battle in Afghanistan. As background to the report, I heard machine guns. However, there was no possible way that they’d gotten a sound clip out of the middle of God (and Allah et al) foresaken Afghanistan and some six hours later used it as background to that report.

They’d gotten a machine gun off the shelf and dubbed it in..

Improved reality – whata concept.

Hell. I think the guy on the right IS Islamic Rage Guy!

The guy on the right with the pointer on his head, that is.

LOL… maybe Lady Gaga can show up at the next rally with her meat dress……..

Are you telling me the meeja aren’t letting the facts get in the way of a good story? Tell me t’ain’t true . . .

(weeps pathetically but in a manly way . . .)

Actually, those bad henna dye jobs are very common over wide stretches of the Gulf, Pakistan, etc.

Saw a pic of a protest by the Aussie version of Code Pink back in 2005 — papers cropped it real tight, and it looked like the street was packed.

Tim Blair posted a montage of the whole deal — a dozen moonbats packed onto one streetcorner, and the photog crouched three feet in front of them, directing them.

Back in ’71, Jane Fonda took her FTA Tour to Ft. Dix to protest — NYT reported “thousands” of protesters. I was flying perimeter patrol — if there were more than 200 people waving signs and shaking fists the main gate, I’ll turn in my calibrated eyeballs.

Trouble (for the media) is that they’ve gone to that well just a bit too often.

Most of the people I know, semi-educated rednecks to a man and woman, pay little attention and less credit. Cleverly cropped exaggerations move no-one who isn’t looking at them, and many of my peeps look at that sort of thing and draw valid, if not precisely correct, conclusions, i.e. that something is wrong here.

PhotoShop has been a Godsend in that respect. The default assumption nowadays is that any image has been tampered with.

Regards,
Ric

For Chef Mojo:

His goats don’t swoon when he sashays by – it’s too dangerous. But they DO make sure they NEVER turn their backsides to him…
}:-]

BillT, you are wanted over at Lex’s place, to comment on the Boeing thread.
http://www.neptunuslex.com/2010/09/14/big-day-for-boeing/

Thanks, Scott.

%$#@! Server keeps timing out before I get to the end of the comments at Lex’s.

A fixed-wing driver plot, is what it is…

Most likely, How Like Them.