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From: joseffy	6/7/2010 4:56:37 PM
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LOL Reuters will stop at nothing to falsify photographs it distributes to exclude "peace activists" knives. littlegreenfootballs.com jpost.com “That’s a very interesting way to crop the photo,” Johnson wrote. “Most people would consider that knife an important part of the context. There was a huge controversy over whether the activists were armed. Cropping out a knife, in a picture showing a soldier who’s apparently been stabbed, seems like a very odd editorial decision." “One picture cropped to remove a knife might be explained as incompetence or a simple mistake,” wrote Johnson. “But now we have two pictures from the ‘peace activists’ that were cropped by someone at Reuters to remove knives in the hands of the activists" “That was supposed to be a peace-activist flotilla, with nothing but love for the whole world. And indeed, the worldwide indignation over Israel’s killing the nine on board depends on this story. If they were a bunch of bloodthirsty, street-fighting Jihadis, armed for close quarter combat, then the story doesn’t quite work.” Reuters crop job By YAAKOV LAPPIN 06/07/2010 jpost.com “However, when these pictures were initially distributed on the wires by Reuters picture service, they were cropped to exclude the knives and blood that bore evidence of the violent intentions of those who participated in the attacks"

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