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A LGF article Reuters Doctoring Photos from Beirut? points out that the MSM is faking news again. This time, Reuters published a photo that was apparently badly PhotoShopped to look a lot worse. The news service admits that the photo was essentially faked and talks of its steps to prevent this, but we are left with the impression that, again, political bias had a hand in not looking closely enough at sources that fit those biases. Not surprisingly, they same guys who were involved in exposing the RatherGate forgeries were involved in exposing this one. LGF here also has a picture of the same "rescuer" in a green helmet who keeps showing up in a lot of the graphic pictures of civilian casualties. His repeated presence in so many photos is starting to be questioned too.

I don't agree with LGF that we are facing an imminent MSM meltdown here, but rather, it is just more evidence that the MSM seem to so uncritically accept "evidence" that supports their points of view, allowing themselves to be repeatedly manipulated by those with political agendas.

The question that is arising is how do we, as educated, intelligent, people, know what is real and what is fake any more? What is reality? We used to be able to trust that Reuters, CBS, the NYT, etc. would give us the facts. But so often any more, they are allowing themselves to be duped. Their moral claim of being objective reporters of facts is in tatters.

So, last night, I was watching CNN a bit, and they had an exclusive tour of a Hezbollah installation. And I had to wonder how much of it was staged for our benefit? What did CNN have to compromise for this "exclusive"? After all, this is the news source that apparently struck a deal with Saddam Hussein that they wouldn't report anything negative about his brutalities in trade for his not kicking them out of Iraq.