Alarming News: I like Morgan Freeberg. A lot.
American Digest: And I like this from "The Blog That Nobody Reads", because it is -- mostly -- about me. What can I say? I'm on an ego trip today. It won't last.
Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler: We were following a trackback and thinking "hmmm... this is a bloody excellent post!", and then we realized that it was just part III of, well, three...Damn. I wish I'd written those.
Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler: ...I just remembered that I found a new blog a short while ago, House of Eratosthenes, that I really like. I like his common sense approach and his curiosity when it comes to why people believe what they believe rather than just what they believe.
Brutally Honest: Morgan Freeberg is brilliant.
Dr. Melissa Clouthier: Morgan Freeberg at House of Eratosthenes (pftthats a mouthful) honors big boned women in skimpy clothing. The picture there is priceless--keep scrolling down.
Exile in Portales: Via Gerard: Morgan Freeberg, a guy with a lot to say. And he speaks The Truth...and it's fascinating stuff. Worth a read, or three. Or six.
Just Muttering: Two nice pieces at House of Eratosthenes, one about a perhaps unintended effect of the Enron mess, and one on the Gore-y environ-movie.
Mein Blogovault: Make "the Blog that No One Reads" one of your daily reads.
The Virginian: I know this post will offend some people, but the author makes some good points.
Poetic Justice: Cletus! Ah gots a laiv one fer yew...
And So, I Wonder
This appears to be yet another humdrum story about the high standards of an international news agency being enforced, at the expense of a freelance photographer who may or may not have been up to shenanigans. Until you get to the paragraph about how he was busted.
He was among several photographers from the main international news agencies whose images of a dead child being held up by a rescuer in the village of Qana, south Lebanon, after an Israeli air strike on July 30 have been challenged by blogs critical of the mainstream media’s coverage of the Middle East conflict. [emphasis mine]
And, the thing that got him so busted.
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. [emphasis mine]
Now granted, digital image manipulation has been around for much longer than what we call “blogs,” and you wouldn’t need to look far-and-wide for someone who can see there’s skullduggery afoot with the image that appeared in the original Reuters dispatch. But facts is facts, as they say. The “ekspurts” had the first shot at this thing and passed it on through, and the blogs took ‘er down.
Little Green Footballs has an excellent rundown on the malfeasance that’s been going on.
And so, once again, I wonder. Our news ekspurts are oh so trustworthy and oh so unbiased, the ekspurts tell me so…oh, how do they put it. Here it is. “Reuters has strict standards of accuracy that bar the manipulation of images in ways that mislead the viewer.” Why, there it is in black-and-white. And yet, since the “blog” as we know it is such a recent phenomenon, the question naturally arises…what other kinds o’ crap went sliding in under the radar in years & generations past? Is there a way of even finding out? Not completely, no.
Next sanctimonious know-it-all who tells me a thing is so because “the ekspurts are in complete agreement” about it…pow, right in the kissa. God bless the blogs. Not so much the opinionated ones like the one you’re reading now, but blogs in general, for reasons that should be obvious. I wonder how we ever got along without ’em. …sadly.
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