Media manipulation

A thorough study on the effectiveness of Hezbollah’s manipulation of the international media… this is how we’ll lose the war on terror, if we don’t wake up real damned soon to the way we’re being deceived in the papers and on the evening news. Lose is probably not the right word… give up is probably more accurate.

Qana – the director’s cut

I have called this post, “the director’s cut”, as that is what it is. The narrative here is of how the combination of Hezbollah’s media management and modern photo-journalism has turned the recording of a tragic event into theatre, in the best tradition of Michael Moore.