During international incidents such as that on the Mavi Marmara (Gaza Flotilla) this past week, people around the world rely on media outlets to report and disseminate news and media accurately, portraying what took place on the ships without making our minds up for us. Unfortunately photos disseminated by Reuters, a leading international news service, inaccurately portrayed the scene aboard the Mavi Marmara, showing a clear doctoring of the photos to omit weapons held by the supposed ”peace activists.” While other photos have emerged of some aboard the ship treating injured Israeli soldiers, the group of “peace activists” in these photos show another story all together. Look for yourself:
A Turkish newpaper has released photos taken by the “peace activists” aboard theMavi Marmara, showing them attempting to take injured Israeli soldiers hostage.
Here’s one of the pictures; notice the knife held by a “peace activist” in the lower right corner:
And here’s the same photo as released by Reuters earlier today:
That’s a very interesting way to crop the photo. 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.
Unless someone was trying to hide it.
And this would not be the first time that Reuters has been caught altering photosfor propaganda purposes.
One picture cropped to remove a knife might be explained as incompetence or a simple mistake.
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, as they attempted to take soldiers hostage.
Reuters has published this picture from the activists:
The picture is a cropped version of this photo from the IHH website (IHH is the Islamist group whose members rioted aboard the Mavi Marmara):
What did the Reuters photo editor crop out? A big knife and a big pool of blood.
Click here to read more – Thanks to LittleGreenFootballs for exposing this!
