Media mountain of trash - Part I

The media is continuing to hemorrage credibility with photo after photo after photo being exposed as fraudulant. Today Michelle Malkin with help from Gatewaypundit and Hot Air associates has two major case studies showing photos that go well beyond the terms "staged" and "doctored". The first photo from the New York Times website shows a young man from the Lebanon city of Tyre being pulled out of some war wreckage. The photo and caption gives the appearance the young man is dead. Michelle has other photos showing the same young man walking around in the rescue operation looking just fine. In addition to his looks he can be identified by his distinctive shorts and hat.

Even if the other photos of the man walking around did not exist, to the critical eye the photo is enough to show it is clearly staged. He has no apparant injuries that would cause death or even render him unconscious. He wears no shirt at all and he has no dust from any explosion on his chest. Neither his front in this photo or his back in later photos show any injury at all. He does, however, have cement dust on his hands - perhaps from moving things around to stage the scene? If you look at the surrounding wreckage that he is lying in, it is a very uncomfortable looking spot with jagged edges of this or that all over. If he fell where he was struck, he would simply land on the ground no matter how uncomfortable. Instead his back and legs are conveniently in places where the least or no pain or discomfort will be caused. His right foot seems to be pushing against something to keep the stone from digging into his back. The most obvious giveaway (that should have tipped the photo editor) is the young man's hat. We see him wearing it in other photos. Here it is neatly tucked in his arm as he lays "dead". If he was wearing it when the bombs struck, how did it get neatly in his arm? If he was holding it at the time, how did it remain in his arm and not fall to the ground?

Such an obvious fraud and the NYT "fell" for it. The next photo example will be added in Part II of this two-part series.