Photo Fraud in the media

[Lazybones]

http://www.aish.com/movies/PhotoFraud.asp

Very interesting. Makes you think the movie "Wag the Dog" was on to something.

[Mr. Analog]

It's sad to see how frequent this is, also that was the worst photoshop I've ever seen!

[Thorin]

I've seen worse, like Bert in the crowd around Osama...  But yeah, I've been telling my kids that anything they see on TV was put there by people with a camera, and that those people may well have set up the whole scene in front of the camera.  The first footage that got me thinking about that was when CNN showed a gathering of Muslims in Indonesia.  The reporter said that all these woman wailing out loud showed how all of Indonesia felt about the US's attack on Iraq, but when you look a little closer you see about ten women right in front of the camera wailing, and a whole bunch of people behind them just standing around doing nothing.

[Shayne]

The problem with this kind of exposure of fraud is 2 fold, on one hand it shows that some of these scenes are nothing like they really are, however now we can point and say its not real when in fact it could very well be real.  Boy who cried wolf type thing.

I personally don?t want the news as its out of date when it airs and i find that our local news representation in either film or in print is a total disaster (reporting things sometimes weeks old as new).  I live by newsgator (filed with about 50 rss feeds) and news.google.com

[Darren Dirt]

"Wag The Dog" viewing parties are gonna be happening in countless homes this month I am sure.

[Lazybones]

I have never seen it, but I know what it is about.

[Mr. Analog]

I don't think it's that popular enough to be partyworthy... 

[Darren Dirt]

I have never seen it, but I know what it is about.

It's as timelessly applicability, and hilariously/sadly rewatchable as Dr. Strangelove. Pretty much for the same reasons too.

[Mr. Analog]

I have never seen it, but I know what it is about.

It's as timelessly applicability, and hilariously/sadly rewatchable as Dr. Strangelove. Pretty much for the same reasons too.

An over the top performance by Peter Sellers and directed by Stanley Kubrick?

[Darren Dirt]

An over the top performance by Peter Sellers and directed by Stanley Kubrick?

No , the lose-count-it's-so-many # of times that you hurt your stomach bellylaughing at how ridiculous the situation is, then soberly realize how precisely applicable it is (without much modification) to the current political situation...