Bin Laden Dead #2

[songline]

US releases photographic evidence that Osama Bin Laden is dead. Funny that one. Can hear Elton John singing 'Sandals In The Bin'.

:waitasec: evidence :floorlaugh: hhmmmm.

 

[songline]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lsWLATxtnxU

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6et-7XfGws8&feature=related

This video is pretty scary (only one link worked for me)
put any of it in the hands of the enemy and WOW!

 

[Fairy1]

http://religion.blogs.cnn.com/2011/05/09/religious-paper-cuts-clinton-from-iconic-photo/?hpt=T2


The ultra-Orthodox Jewish publication ran a doctored copy of the iconic “Situation Room Photo” last Friday – you know, the one taken of President Barack Obama and his national security team during the raid on Osama bin Laden’s compound.

Scrubbed from the picture: the two women in the room.

It’s as if Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, with her hand clasped over her mouth, and Audrey Tomason, director of counterterrorism, weren’t there and weren’t part of history.

 

[Steely Dan]

http://religion.blogs.cnn.com/2011/05/09/religious-paper-cuts-clinton-from-iconic-photo/?hpt=T2


The ultra-Orthodox Jewish publication ran a doctored copy of the iconic “Situation Room Photo” last Friday – you know, the one taken of President Barack Obama and his national security team during the raid on Osama bin Laden’s compound.

Scrubbed from the picture: the two women in the room.

It’s as if Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, with her hand clasped over her mouth, and Audrey Tomason, director of counterterrorism, weren’t there and weren’t part of history.

I started a thread about it. I thought it was a separate subject but if the mods don't think so they can merge them; Websleuths Crime Sleuthing Community

 

[Nova]

http://religion.blogs.cnn.com/2011/05/09/religious-paper-cuts-clinton-from-iconic-photo/?hpt=T2


The ultra-Orthodox Jewish publication ran a doctored copy of the iconic “Situation Room Photo” last Friday – you know, the one taken of President Barack Obama and his national security team during the raid on Osama bin Laden’s compound.

Scrubbed from the picture: the two women in the room.

It’s as if Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, with her hand clasped over her mouth, and Audrey Tomason, director of counterterrorism, weren’t there and weren’t part of history.

Un-flippin' believable!

As if we needed more proof that so much organized religion is a big game of "make believe."

In essence, this Orthodox publication is arguing that it has a Constitutionally protected right to lie. I think that's clear enough.

 

[Steely Dan]

Un-flippin' believable!

As if we needed more proof that so much organized religion is a big game of "make believe."

In essence, this Orthodox publication is arguing that it has a Constitutionally protected right to lie. I think that's clear enough.

Fox News went to court to fight for the right to lie in the news and they won; http://www.relfe.com/media_can_legally_lie.html

 

[Emma Peel]

Fox News went to court to fight for the right to lie in the news and they won; http://www.relfe.com/media_can_legally_lie.html

4 realzies? :banghead:

 

[Nova]

Fox News went to court to fight for the right to lie in the news and they won; http://www.relfe.com/media_can_legally_lie.html

Okay, now, no more complaining that some of us refer to it as Faux News.

 

[Steely Dan]

Okay, now, no more complaining that some of us refer to it as Faux News.

Fox is very good at it but this is even more disturbing. It comes from the article linked above;

...What is more appalling are the five major media outlets that filed briefs of Amici Curiae- or friend of FOX – to support FOX’s position: Belo Corporation, Cox Television, Inc., Gannett Co., Inc., Media General Operations, Inc., and Post-Newsweek Stations, Inc. These are major media players! Their statement, “The station argued that it simply wanted to ensure that a news story about a scientific controversy regarding a commercial product was present with fairness and balance, and to ensure that it had a sound defense to any potential defamation claim.”

“Fairness and balance?” Monsanto hardly demonstrated “fairness and balance” when it threatened a lawsuit and demanded the elimination of important, verifiable information!

 

[Kimberlyd125]

Okay, now, no more complaining that some of us refer to it as Faux News.

So the other news agencies don't fabricate?
GMAB

 

[Steely Dan]

So the other news agencies don't fabricate?
GMAB

There aren't nearly as many fabrications on the left as there are on the right. JMO.

Fox News either makes a lot of mistakes or intentionally changes facts. Either answer is a good reason to turn them off and watch something that is truly "fair and balanced" and/or competently vetted.

 

[Kimberlyd125]

There aren't nearly as many fabrications on the left as there are on the right. JMO.

Fox News either makes a lot of mistakes or intentionally changes facts. Either answer is a good reason to turn them off and watch something that is truly "fair and balanced" and/or competently vetted.

BBM - Is there such a thing?

 

[Nova]

So the other news agencies don't fabricate?
GMAB

Kimberly, I will not claim the other news agencies are perfect.

But none of them gets a daily memo instructing employees how to slant the news. Only Fox. And this is a well-demonstrated fact.

 

[Nova]

There aren't nearly as many fabrications on the left as there are on the right. JMO.

Fox News either makes a lot of mistakes or intentionally changes facts. Either answer is a good reason to turn them off and watch something that is truly "fair and balanced" and/or competently vetted.

I agree, but let's be clear that most major new agencies are very much centrist. The truly progressive press (The Nation, Mother Jones, a few radio stations, some blogs at HuffPo) is very small.

 

[Kimberlyd125]

Kimberly, I will not claim the other news agencies are perfect.

But none of them gets a daily memo instructing employees how to slant the news. Only Fox. And this is a well-demonstrated fact.

Fact?
Sounds more like opinion to me.

You think CNN and MSN are not obvious in their bias?

 

[reportertype]

Also I would like to point out that, as someone who has worked for multiple news agencies, including one of those five named in the link above, there really is no such thing as a massive liberal media.

The vast majority of the decisionmakers at the top are conservative with a few more liberal thinkers sprinkled in here and there. Only the rank and file has several liberal people and many of the reporters and editors I worked with there were leaned more toward the conservative. Whatever I thought about anything never made a difference in how I reported it, as least not purposely. Since we are all human, no doubt there is never true, absolute objectivity.

 

[Nova]

Also I would like to point out that, as someone who has worked for multiple news agencies, including one of those five named in the link above, there really is no such thing as a massive liberal media.

The vast majority of the decisionmakers at the top are conservative with a few more liberal thinkers sprinkled in here and there. Only the rank and file has several liberal people and many of the reporters and editors I worked with there were leaned more toward the conservative. Whatever I thought about anything never made a difference in how I reported it, as least not purposely. Since we are all human, no doubt there is never true, absolute objectivity.

Exactly. And worth repeating.

Even Newt Gingrich once admitted there was no such thing as a "liberal media," but that complaining about it was part of the game.

Which would be fine if more people recognized that it is just a game. And if the price of playing the game weren't "life and death" to so many people.

 

[Nova]

Fact?
Sounds more like opinion to me.

You think CNN and MSN are not obvious in their bias?

Not opinion. Here are just a couple of links.


http://mediamatters.org/research/200611150009


http://archive.pressthink.org/2003/10/30/fox_thememo.html


If you don't like online sources, you can find the "daily memo" discussed in at least one of the books by Bob Woodward (a volume I don't have handy at the moment).

Of course, the "columnists" at other networks have biases, just as newspaper columnists do. But there's a difference between having a point of view and having an entire network's slant dictated by a daily communication from above.

 

[Fairy1]

"Because of laws of modesty, we are not allowed to publish pictures of women, and we regret if this gives an impression of disparaging women, which is certainly never our intention," it continued. "We apologize if this was seen as offensive."

THIS is what I have a problem with. YOU CANNOT ERASE WOMEN!

 

[Nova]

"Because of laws of modesty, we are not allowed to publish pictures of women, and we regret if this gives an impression of disparaging women, which is certainly never our intention," it continued. "We apologize if this was seen as offensive."

THIS is what I have a problem with. YOU CANNOT ERASE WOMEN!

And what are you saying about women if their very images (however clothed) are immodest? Of course, it's disparaging!