Photographer: News Magazine Changed Caption to Bash Israel

By Al Brown (Bio | Archive)
November 14, 2006 - 17:00 ET

The fauxtography scandal that characterized reporting of the Israeli-Hezbollah war continues. Charles Johnson at little green footballs reports that, according to the photographer who took a dramatic picture that ran in Time and US News & World Report, editors at Time deliberately changed the caption to slant the story against Israel. The caption claimed that the picture showed an Israeli plane burning after being shot down. It actually showed a fire at a Lebanese army base caused by a ground to ground missile that misfired after Israeli bombing.

What neither magazine chose to report is that the presence of the missile and launcher hidden in a civilian truck on the army base is a clear indication of collusion between the Lebanese army and the terrorist group Hezbollah.

Photographer Bruno Stevens has posted a full account of the incident at Lightstalkers, a photography forum.

Johnson sums it up:

As I’ve written before, mainstream media is an absolute disgrace—and this time we can’t even blame it on local stringers doing the work of Hizballah. These distortions were perpetrated by Western editors, sitting in comfortable offices, demonizing Israel and covering up evidence of Hizballah war crimes and collusion with the Lebanese Army.

Via The Jawa Report; more commentary at Michelle Malkin.


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Unethical journalists a dime-a-dozen

November 14, 2006 - 21:19 ET by Placebo

Of course, the anti-Semitic/Israel mass-media loathes Israel. This is not the first, nor will it be the last time, this unprofessional tripe will be used by these biased and unethical journalists. Furthermore, when they are caught “red” handed and, thus apologise or retract the professed "error"; the damage is already done and more so, the lie had met its intent and end.