søndag, august 06, 2006

"I think it's more than fair to say that Reuters has a big problem."

herlig historie: rutineret pressefotograf taget med bukserne nede, Reuters eneste handelsvare - troværdigheden - siver ned i grøften. Og dertil trusler mod bloggeren der afslører propagandaen. Nyd alle links her, barnet har allerede et navn : Reutersgate:
Reuters employee issues 'Zionist pig' death threat
Worker suspended after telling American blogger: 'I look forward to day when you pigs get your throats cut'
A Reuters employee has been suspended after sending a death threat to an American blogger. The message, sent from a Reuters internet account, read:
"I look forward to the day when you pigs get your throats cut." It was sent to Charles Johnson, owner of the Little Green Footballs (LGF) ( http://littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/ ) weblog, a popular site which often backs Israel and highlights jihadist terrorist activities.
- In the threat, the Reuters staff member, who has not been named, left his email address as "zionistpig" at hotmail.com. Reporting the message to his readers, Johnson wrote on his website:
"This particular death threat is a bit different from the run of the mill hate mail we get around here, because an IP lookup on the sender reveals that he/she/it was using an account at none other than Reuters News."
Speaking to Ynetnews, Johnson said:
"I was surprised to receive a threat from a Reuters IP, but only because it was so careless of this person to use a traceable work account to do it." He added: "I think it's more than fair to say that Reuters has a big problem."
'Employee suspended'
After bringing the threat to the attention of Reuters, Johnson was told by the news organization's Global Head of Communications, EdWilliams: "I can confirm that an employee has been suspended pending further investigation. The individual was not an employee of Reuters' news division."
http://littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/?entry=21956_Reuters_Doctoring_Photos_from_Beirut&only


Worst Excuse of the Decade
Make sure you aren’t consuming any liquid substances when you read Reuters’ explanation of why Adnan Hajj concocted an entirely faked photograph of a nonexistent Beirut:
Reuters drops freelance Lebanese photographer over image.
LONDON, (Reuters)
- Reuters, the global news and information agency, told a freelance Lebanese photographer on Sunday it would not use any more of his pictures after he doctored an image of the aftermath of an Israeli air strike on Beirut. ...Reuters withdrew the doctored image on Sunday and replaced it with the unaltered photograph after several news blogs said it had been manipulated using Photoshop software to show more smoke. Reuters has strict standards of accuracy that bar the manipulation of images in ways that mislead the viewer.
“The photographer has denied deliberately attempting to manipulate the image, saying that he was trying to remove dust marks and that he made mistakes due to the bad lighting conditions he was working under,” said Moira Whittle, the head of public relations for Reuters.
“This represents a serious breach of Reuters’ standards and we shall not be accepting or using pictures taken by him,” Whittle said in a statement issued in London. Hajj worked for Reuters as a non-staff freelance, or contributing photographer, from 1993 until 2003 and again since April 2005.
Notice they don’t accept any of the blame themselves, even though any competent editor should have noticed the fraudulent nature of this photograph long before it reached the newswires.
http://littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/?entry=21956_Reuters_Doctoring_Photos_from_Beirut&only

Forgiveness
In a recent interview, General Norman Schwarzkopf was asked if he thought there was room for forgiveness toward Hizbollah. The General said:

" I believe that forgiving Hizbollah is God's function. The Israeli's job is to arrange the meeting ."



'Gå ad helvede til. Vi vil tage de kraftigste midler i brug mod jer'
Politiken har idag et Süddeutsche Zeitung interview med Ehud Olmert der, skønt han ikke ønskede krigen, har svært ved at skjule sin tilfredshed med på et sølvfad at få leveret chancen til at reducere Hizbollah til perifere tinsoldater. Upopulære i Libanon og store dele af Mellemøsten efter krigen. En fatal fejlkalkulation af Nasrallah at vække den sovende løve. Bemærk Olmerts fine forståelse med kansler Merkel, der lever mere i realiteternes verden end den franske udenrigsminister:

Krig i Libanon: »Ingen kan stoppe os«
Politiken 6. august 2006
Israels ministerpræsident Ehud Olmert taler i dette interview om krigen i Libanon, tyske soldater som del af fredsbevarende styrke og Syriens rolle.
»Resultatet af vores invasion er, at en stor del af Hizbollahs infrastruktur er blevet ødelagt. Derudover er befolkningsgrupper, som støttede Hizbollah, blevet fordrevet fra deres hjem og har mistet alt, hvad de ejede. Det er de frygtelig bitre over«.
Og hader derfor Israel?

»De hadede også Israel før. Men de gav Hizbollah husly og gjorde plads til deres raketaffyringsramper i deres hjem. Nu retter deres vrede sig mod Hizbollah«.
Er det ikke lidt af en fortolkning? Fra Libanon hører man jo det stik modsatte. Ifølge forlydender fra Libanon har militæroffensiven medført en styrkelse af Hizbollah, ikke en svækkelse?
Det afhænger af, hvem De mener. Blandt ekstremistiske grupper i nogle arabiske lande er tilslutningen måske vokset. Men Hizbollahs frihed til at gøre, hvad de vil, er næsten forsvundet. De vil snart opleve, at Hizbollah er fuldstændig forsvundet fra det sydlige Libanon. De vil dermed have mistet deres strategiske fordel, nemlig evnen til når som helst at fremprovokere sammenstød med den israelske hær, som kan sætte hele regionen i brand. Jeg tror, der vil gå meget, meget lang tid, før Hizbollah igen får lyst til at udløse en israelsk reaktion«.
Nasrallah fuld af løgn

Hvordan når De frem til den konklusion?
»Man behøver blot at se på Hizbollahlederen, Hassan Nasrallah, så ved man alt. Han fortæller løgnehistorier for at holde modet oppe hos folket. F.eks. løgnen om, at vi skulle have haft planer om en militæroffensiv i oktober. Gang på gang fremhæver han betydningen af denne krig og dens resultater.
Han befinder sig i en fortvivlet situation. Og derudover beder han nu om våbenstilstand. Vi har aldrig bedt om våbenstilstand. Vi bryder os godt nok ikke om, at der hver dag falder 180 raketter ned over hovederne på os, men Hizbollah udgør ikke længere en trussel mod Israel. Vi har ikke bedt om medlidenhed eller om, at raketbeskydningen indstilles. Vi har sagt: 'Gå ad helvede til. Vi vil tage de kraftigste midler i brug mod jer'«.

tyskkyndige kan læse hele interviewet:
Süddeutsche Zeitung
"Niemand kann uns stoppen"
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