I tend to think the whole point of this thread is pretty disingenuous. Are you trying to defend Israel's actions, discredit Reuters or discredit the flotilla passengers? To me it seems a bit like you're trying to say "see, they had weapons AND Reuters cropped a photo so the attack was justified and editing audio is ok since they did it too."
Reuters is not affiliated with the flotilla activists so the comparison seems a little misaligned. Further, so what if a flotilla passenger has a knife? They were on their own ship in international waters. Having what looks to be between a 4 and 6 inch bladed knife isn't an offense is it? It does nothing to justify either Israel's attack or manipulation of the audio. Smokescreeeeeeeeeeeeen On Mon, Jun 7, 2010 at 8:39 AM, Michael Dinowitz <[email protected] > wrote: > > > The knife looks like a little fish knife. > Doesn't look so small to me, but I guess the person holding it was > eating dinner right before stomping the soldier and just forgot he had > it in his hand. > > > And I don't know that Reuters is in the business of > > splashing big bloody photos everywhere. > No, they're in the business of news and should be in the business of > truth. Doctoring pictures is a crime against their readers. Other > papers didn't seem to have a problem with the undoctored photo. The > Turkish papers even lauded it. > > > It also doesn't indicate that the knife was used, or whether it was > picked > > up from the deck, or whether they disarmed the soldier trying to stab > them. > You're right. He was just holding it to clean his nails. > > > In comparison though, the actions of Israel were a direct attempt to > mislead > > the public and doctor recordings to make > > it seem that the people aboard the ship were terrorists. > Yep. No disagreement there. Israel sucks when it comes to media > presentation, especially media manipulation. They would be better at > pure, raw truth but they're afraid of showing things due to > 'security'. They have yet to come into the battleground of the new > world. > > > Reuters should have shown the knife though, so that people can see that > what > > was onboard the ship were common knives and other implements and > > nothing that was specially designed for combat. > I saw the knives they collected. Some of them were not for cutting > bread. I saw the bulletproof vests and night vision equipment. If > these were peaceful activists, then I'd hate to see what Turkish > soldiers are like. And I still have not seen clear evidence that any > of the people involved in the combat were soldiers, mercenaries, > experienced terrorists, or the like. > But it still makes me wonder why each of them were carrying envelopes > of so much cash. > > The story is far from over. > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology-Michael-Dinowitz/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:320446 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
