Just how far are media outlets willing to go to advance a liberal agenda?
Well, consider if you will a major wire service changing the picture included in an article about rare snows in Baghdad, Iraq, several days after said article was published.
For some background, on Friday, NewsBusters drew attention to an Agence France-Presse article concerning the first snow in Baghdad for at least 100 years.
The picture included with this AFP piece is featured above right. Nice little snowy scene, yes? Makes you want to put your Christmas lights back up.
Unfortunately, if you click on the link to that AFP article now, this is the picture available (h/t NBer Popular Technology):
Why the change, folks? Did the first picture look too much like snow actually fell?
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Agenda, agenda, agenda, protect the "message" at all costs
January 14, 2008 - 21:31 ET by planetrepublicanSevere winter makes the Global boloney artists go to warm climes and stay there until summer (most crawl under the rocks they came from). You just don't hear much from the Gaea worshippers during these cycles.
1st Pic= Happy Iraqis,
January 14, 2008 - 21:35 ET by Warner Todd Huston1st Pic= Happy Iraqis, playing in the snow without a care in the world.
2nd Pic= Dour Iraqi walking in an empty street.
Final analysis= pic 1 is baaaad because it shows happy Iraqis, and THAT is baaaad because we don't want the American people to think that Iraqis could ever be happy. 2nd pic is better because it ain't so flippin' happy.
If we are going to write
January 14, 2008 - 21:39 ET by MidAmericaIf we are going to write the same thing at the same time I'm going to have to type faster so I don't look like I'm just repeating you.
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January 14, 2008 - 21:51 ET by Noel SheppardWarner,
Interesting. In my own anthropogenic global warming consumed world, I hadn't considered the problem being "Happy Iraqis."
As the wizard accurately noted, that's a horse of a different color, which actually has a Shakespearean component for those that have read such. ns
Why the change, folks? Did
January 14, 2008 - 21:35 ET by MidAmericaWhy the change, folks? Did the first picture look too much like snow actually fell?
That and the first picture showed a couple having fun.... in Bagdad! The second picture is a nice dreary gray.
Is beyond agenda
January 14, 2008 - 21:46 ET by Lame CherryMr. Shep, I for example admit I was wrong on the Pats loosing and the Colts winning as it was posted here and one is always open to the fluidity of the human condition.
The MSM on the other hand bases itself not just on agenda but on absolutes.
Absolute 1: We are "god" and our amoral state is unchanging therefore we are absolutely perfect to judge and convict situations.
Absolute 2: Our judgments are the ends justify the means.
Absolute 3: To maintain absolute control any measure is viable.
When one is a Saddam Hussein or a Ossama bin Laden, there are fusings in the psyche which occur at a very young age. Liberals are of the same psyche in fused development. They are all children existing in adult form hoping every moment they are not discovered.
A child caught with his hand in the cookie jar lies blatantly to maintain the aura of innocence. A liberal changing a photo when the entire world has seen snow on the ground in Iraq is the same child reacting to being caught in a lie.
"Honey it's not what it looks like"........sounds familiar as the child Bill grows up and rapes women and little child Hillary "believes" the lie as she has her own lies to carry out too.
This is the heart of the matter. It is why liberals in fear promote fear to move people as it is at their entire core. It is beyond agenda. It is the very essence of their scratch and sniff soul.
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So, what happened to the
January 14, 2008 - 21:46 ET by R D HelmSo, what happened to the snow in the second picture? Should not an article about "rare snow" at least include a picture with actual snow?
None are so hopelessly enslaved as those who falsely believe they are free. -J.W. von Goethe
snow melted as it hit the ground
January 14, 2008 - 23:25 ET by Gary HallNoel. I noticed this as I read the piece the first time. The piece stated, "The snow in Baghdad, which melted as it hit the ground..."
The editors probably saw that the facts on the ground did not match the news which they had constructed, so.... they changed the picture to match the perception they had presented.
Simple.
Bunch of quacks.
Inconsistency
January 15, 2008 - 00:40 ET by justmeI remember distinctly finding their article to be a bit puzzing because that line was obviously not factual, at least in the area where they took the initial photograph.
All in how you spin it
January 15, 2008 - 10:28 ET by PopularTechSnow frequently only sticks to non paved areas but melts when it hits concrete or asphalt. The media will frequently report that it is "melting as it hits the ground" or "not sticking" when you can clearly see snow sticking to non-paved areas. So the first picture is still valid.
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Oops!
January 15, 2008 - 06:31 ET by GrannyGrump42For a minute there, they made it look like Baghdad wasn't 100% smoking hole in the earth after the relentless carpet bombing by the America soldiers who eat babies for breakfast.
Snow vs Rain
January 15, 2008 - 10:25 ET by PopularTechThey had to remove any trace of snow, since more rain fits in with their religion and that is what the second one looks like. They obviously had to change it once us "deniers" started using this as obvious evidence against AGW.
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Bingo!
January 15, 2008 - 10:43 ET by pbanks7There can be no joy in Mudville.
Ignorance is bliss. It's easier to repeat a mindless slogan than to do some actual research.
Who says either picture is of Baghdad?
January 15, 2008 - 12:16 ET by PawpawNWho says either picture is of Baghdad? They probably used a photo from France or HELL!