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Topic started on 28-5-2012 @ 09:57 AM by seenavv

BBC Caught In Syria Massacre Propaganda Hoax


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The British media has been caught yet again with its pants down in the effort to sell a NATO-led attack on Syria, with the revelation that BBC News used a years-old photo of dead Iraqi children to depict victims of an alleged government assault on the town of Houla.
In a report issued hours after the massacre, the BBC used a photo that was first published over nine years ago and taken in Al Mussayyib, Iraq. The image shows a child skipping over the dead bodies of hundreds of Iraqi children who have been transported from a mass grave to be identified.
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reply posted on 28-5-2012 @ 10:04 AM by seenavv
The BBC is facing criticism after it accidentally used a picture taken in Iraq in 2003 to illustrate the senseless massacre of children in Syria.

www.telegraph.co.uk...
I appreciate the telegraph is also covering this... but this is FAR from an accident! BBC did this because it fit the agenda of its backers

Examples of deliberate dishonesty and illegitimate reporting




www.abovetopsecret.com...
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reply posted on 28-5-2012 @ 10:14 AM by Bixxi3
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I often wonder if we should blame the media outlets or the government for forcing them to censor them self.

I know in WW2 there something called a DA Notice basically volunteer censorship.

most media complied because who didn't want to support there country?
Well i think most can agree in WW2 that type of stuff was necessary its nothing like it is today.


I think it still goes on today but it may be getting less and less voluntary and more compulsory.
journalist them self may not completely realize it, but there editors are the one who pass on the order from the top.
that way we will truly never get to the top as there are alot of scapegoats on the way up.

Despite all of this i still see the BBC as the best in world. off course that doesn't mean I eat up there words blindly
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reply posted on 28-5-2012 @ 10:18 AM by QQXXw
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Unfortunately the BBC gets a lot of respect and little missteps like this are not going to change anybodies opinions. There have been plenty of documented cases of Western media either outright using actors or unrelated footage and nobody seems to care.
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reply posted on 28-5-2012 @ 10:19 AM by QQXXw
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they are the best in the world, best in the world at propaganda.
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reply posted on 28-5-2012 @ 10:50 AM by this_is_who_we_are



reply posted on 28-5-2012 @ 11:12 AM by Aim64C
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The picture you post is a simple one. News agencies will often green-screen a "live" scene's background (to make it seem as though their reporter is there). It makes sense from a logistical standpoint... why pay legions of reporters to sit around within an hours' distance from likely news locations when you can simply use some footage (from perhaps a few hours ago) to make it appear as though they are present there?

That said - the OP's issue is a much more damaging act of deception. It's become typical for the media to use images that garner attention from the viewers as opposed to using actual images from the scene. The reasoning behind it is simple - and dangerous; particularly in instances like this.

The BBC may have received a report of what they describe as a massacre - but lacking images of it - use a picture they believe will "illustrate the idea." I see it often in poorly written articles about technology or other such areas where sub-humans are put in charge of writing articles that make them feel intellectually relevant for a brief period. Not that 80% of the population is intellectually relevant enough to catch the farce (which is why they remain employed, unfortunately). Anyway - they decide to supplement their article with something that grabs attention and is "related" as opposed to documented.

This is the result.

Which makes one have to question the legitimacy of the reports of violence in Syria, to begin with - or at least, to the extent that it is reported by various news agencies.
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