News agencies demand our uncritical acceptance
A number of news agencies announced today that they stand by their photos of the Qana incident where an Israeli air strike early Sunday morning left a number of Lebanese civilians dead. The old cliché about a photo being worth a thousand words may be true, but those words do not necessarily include the context (i.e., the metadata) of the photo.
Fortunately there are a number of people, exemplified by EU Referendum, who are not uncritically accepting the main stream media’s (MSM) narrative of the photos:
And in this war, this second war, we have been offered the iconic figure of “Green Helmet” who, a number of our readers suggest, is Abu Shadi Jradi. His pain as he carries the body of a dead girl sums up the outrage of the Qana incident and conveys to us the horror of a war which all good people want to end. We are being asked to share that pain and, overtly in many cases, to condemn those whom we are told caused it.
But we, in turn, are entitled to know whether that “pain” is real and even if it is, whether it is being used to manipulate our thinking and turn our sentiment one way or another. On the other hand, no one is entitled to demand our uncritical acceptance of that which we are shown – that we should necessarily and always accept it as the unvanrished truth.
It is in this context that we are asking: “what is the truth”? We ask it because we have done something we were not supposed to do… we have put all the separate photographs that we can find of one sequence of events. And they simply do not stack up.
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Propaganda War
The War on Militant Islam is being fought on multiple fronts: among them economic, political, and military. One dimension that the enemy seems to excel at is in information warfare. Their dissemination of misinformation is both breathtaking in its savagery and in its effectiveness. Here is a must read on the issue with many examples by Michelle Malkin.
World War III?
The West is currently in the midst of a world wide war with the adherents of Militant Islam which the Bush administration refers to as the “War on Terrorism”. As has been pointed out by many, this is a very poor moniker since it does not clearly define the enemy. In the interest of clarity I’ve referred to this war as the “War on Militant Islam”, “War on Radical Islam”, and “War on Islamofascism“.
Recently Newt Gingrich referred to it as World War III in his July 16 appearance on “Meet the Press”. Click here to see the video. It is worth considering if this is the most accurate name for the vital struggle the West is currently engaged in.
