Comments on: Update: Citing Promises, AP Lifts Military Photo Ban

By: Gregg W

Gregg W — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 19:55:04 +0000

Forget altered pictures, how much longer will these needless wars for Israel continue? Will it 'change' under Obama? Highly doubtful. Israel already owns Obama after he picked Rahm Emanuel, the son of a terrorist, as Chief of Staff. Obama will probably let Mossad slide on their 9/11 involvement and Obama will continue Middle East wars. So who won the US election? Israel did, as always.

By: lester ness

lester ness — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 09:06:55 +0000

So what did they change? If it’s something minor, like hiding the name tag on a shirt, OK. If it’s something major….

Anyway, one should always be sceptical of whatever one reads/sees/hears, from public media or private, like this outfit.

Lester Ness

By: K Street Kriminal

K Street Kriminal — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 20:53:21 +0000

I heart the AP, and Bizarro World! You should see how much it pays!

By: Andy

Andy — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 18:33:23 +0000

Hey if the Pentagon “promises”, that’s good enough for me.

By: liberranter

liberranter — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 15:36:21 +0000

Today, citing a promise from the Pentagon to avoid distributing altered images, they lifted the ban.

Uh-huh. Junkies and alcoholics routinely “promise” that they’ve sworn off the substance of their addition, just like Barack Obama “promised” that he’d bring “change.” Adolf Hitler also “promised” not to invade any of his other neighbors after swallowing up Czechoslovakia.

Would anyone care to lay a bet as to how soon it will be before the Pentagon provides AP with pics even more blatantly “doctored” than those that prompted this uproar, with nary a peep from AP from here on out?

By: Richmond Greens » War on Terrorism = War on Journalism

Richmond Greens » War on Terrorism = War on Journalism — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 20:06:54 +0000

[...] I don’t think we can retire from speaking truth to power. From Liberty Underground: Antiwar.com reports that the Associated Press (AP) has lifted a ban on using photographs provided by the [...]

By: Andy

Andy — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 04:35:10 +0000

They don’t call them the sheeple for nothing you know.

By: Lear K

Lear K — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 16:28:08 +0000

CNN to Al Jazeera: Why Report Civilian Deaths?
“As the casualties mount in the besieged Iraqi city of Fallujah, Qatar-based Al Jazeera has been one of the only news networks broadcasting from the inside, relaying images of destruction and civilian victims– including women and children. But when CNN anchor Daryn Kagan interviewed the network’s editor-in-chief, Ahmed Al-Sheik, on Monday (4/12/04)– a rare opportunity to get independent information about events in Fallujah– she used the occasion to badger Al-Sheik about whether the civilian deaths were really “the story” in Fallujah.”

http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=1587

By: Brad Smith

Brad Smith — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 16:25:13 +0000

Right on. It sounds like your lucky to have the leaders you have. In the US there haven’t been leaders for a while only rulers. If things keep going the way they are you may soon see some emigration back from the US. My Great Grandfather was in the Guards during the reign of the Czar and fled with his family including my Grandfather. I would love to come and visit your country sometime but you know how it goes always one thing pushing out another.

Peace!

By: Lear K

Lear K — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 16:22:23 +0000

“The five Algerians were joined for most of their stay at Guantanamo by Al Jazeera camerman Sami Al-Haj, who was abducted in 2001 while attempting to enter Afghanistan to cover the war there for Al Jazeera, imprisoned at Guantanamo without ever being charged with any acts of terrorism, questioned almost exclusively not about Al Qaeda, but about the work of Al Jazeera, and then, after more than six years, unceremoniously released with no charges or findings of any wrongdoing whatsoever. As Reporters Without Borders summarized:

Regularly tortured and subjected to close to 200 interrogation sessions by his jailers, Sami Al-Haj began a hunger strike on January 7, 2007, in protest against his detention and to demand that his rights be respected. In retaliation, his jailers force-fed him on several occasions. His lawyer, Clive Stafford-Smith, who visited him in July last year, said he had lost about 40 pounds and was suffering from serious intestinal problems. He was also subject to bouts of paranoia and was finding it increasingly difficult to communicate normally.”

http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2008/11/21/journalists/index.html

By: Vassili

Vassili — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 14:16:13 +0000

I don’t like shepherds much more then I like wolfs – both work towards the ultimate goal of slaughtering the sheep – sooner or later :-)

But so far I have not heard anything from both of them that I can call an obvious lie. So far they manage the Russia corporation well enough, prompting sheep to convert into humans, and containing fat-cats, and that is best one can expect from a politician.

Being blessed with not having an ideology helps a lot…

By: subHuman

subHuman — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 11:06:51 +0000

AP is pro-regime media house, of course their duty is to promote regime’s agenda.
Pravda and TASS performed same function in the other evil empire till the collapse.