Qana Media Swarm Revealed
Charles Johnson (H/T: Jules C.)
Here’s a photograph taken during the ghoulish dead baby display after Israel’s bombing of the town of Qana, at the height of the Hizballah media blitz, but from a different angle than the dozens and dozens of similar photos that were splashed all over the front pages of the newspapers of the world.
This angle’s a revealing one, an angle that for some reason, we haven’t seen before: the view from behind the “paramedics” who paraded with bodies for hours, staging and arranging them for an obviously very eager world media. (Hat tip: Viggo.) [image] ...
UPDATE at 2/9/07 5:03:06 pm:
Why was this picture left in the editor’s kill file until now?
Because it really wrecks the suspension of disbelief that actors need to convince the audience.
It’s like seeing the scaffolds and lights and fake landscapes behind the scenes at a theater, in the middle of a performance.
The Qana photographs are some of the most gut-wrenching, heart-breaking images you could ever imagine. And that’s why it’s important to recognize that there are people with souls so dead and intentions so evil that they will use this fact to manipulate your feelings.
But imagine if pictures like the one above had the same 24/7 coverage as all those pictures with a weeping rescuer running alone down a dusty road. Context, anyone?
UPDATE at 2/9/07 6:03:18 pm:
More context: [video link]
