Press skepticism II
Aug. 15th, 2007 07:09 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
doc_strangeOr... "But wait, gets better!"
Now the AFP has re-tagged the photo. The change control field says they only added "unspent" to the description, but in fact they deleted all reference to the rounds actually having been claimed to hit her house. Nice, they lie in the change control field. Sheesh.
See: http://minx.cc/?post=237239
So now it's captioned, "An elderly Iraqi woman holds up two unspent bullets at her house following an early coalition forces raid in the predominantly Shiite Baghdad suburb of Sadr City, 14 August 2007."
Meaningless. Might as well be, "A person holds up a broom following the moon landing." Or maybe this, or even this...
Also, sources are now indicating those are almost certainly not US military rounds, but plain old box civvy .223 rounds. Nice, nice, very nice. Oh so many morons use the same device.
Now the AFP has re-tagged the photo. The change control field says they only added "unspent" to the description, but in fact they deleted all reference to the rounds actually having been claimed to hit her house. Nice, they lie in the change control field. Sheesh.
See: http://minx.cc/?post=237239
So now it's captioned, "An elderly Iraqi woman holds up two unspent bullets at her house following an early coalition forces raid in the predominantly Shiite Baghdad suburb of Sadr City, 14 August 2007."
Meaningless. Might as well be, "A person holds up a broom following the moon landing." Or maybe this, or even this...
Also, sources are now indicating those are almost certainly not US military rounds, but plain old box civvy .223 rounds. Nice, nice, very nice. Oh so many morons use the same device.
