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August 7, 2006

More phony Reuters "reporting"



A correspondent from Israel, whose young daughter was murdered in a terrorist bombing several years ago, wrote how necessary it is to have in-depth knowledge of a situation in order to see through Reuters’ narratives, as compared to analyzing its phony photos.

Another example was served up by Reuters today. It had featured the hysterionics of Lebanese Prime Minister Siniora about 40 Lebanese civilians killed in an Israeli air attack, and repeated such assertions from local Lebanese townspeople.

Now, as CNN reports:

Lebanese Prime Minister Fouad Siniora said Monday that one person was killed in an Israeli airstrike on the southern village of Houla, not 40 as he had earlier reported.
"The massacre in Houla, it turned out that there was one person killed," Siniora said. "They thought that the whole building smashed on the heads of about 40 people. ... Thank God they have been saved."
Siniora had earlier told Arab foreign ministers in Beirut that the attack "was a horrific massacre ... in which more than 40 martyrs were victims of deliberate bombing."

Dinocrat blog’s Jack Risko gets to the heart of the deceptive reporting by Reuters:

We just asked, “What if it were true?’ It wasn’t. The Reuters story was wildly wrong. A new Reuters story now reads this way in the second paragraph:
Choking back tears in an emotional speech to an emergency meeting of Arab foreign ministers in Beirut, Siniora said more than 40 civilians were killed in an air raid in a southern village. But he later revised the toll to one.
“He later revised the toll to one.” How then did Reuters get the reactions from the residents of that village, Houla, who said they feared that up to 60 people had been killed, and identified them as children and shepherds? Did they get that information from their Hezbollah handlers and allies? You may believe any story from Reuters / Hezbollah at your peril.

Bruce Kesler | Aug. 7, 2006 | 6:07 PM