Iraq: Mainstream media and trust

From bobharris.com:

If you missed it -- and that was actually surprisingly easy to do -- hundreds of thousands of protesters marched in Baghdad, demanding a withdrawal of U.S. and U.K. troops.


Just for fun, compare and contrast the size of the crowd with this photo of the supposedly massive celebration when Saddam's statue was ripped down by a U.S. military vehicle for the benefit of CNN and similarly honest western news outlets.



The whole thing was eventually revealed as an Army psyops job. Really, it was. The Army itself admitted it. Like, almost a year ago.

If you read the link to CNN, note the careful framing of the photo, the lack of a crowd in the background (matching this wide-angle shot), and just how little the article actually says about the size of the "crowd."

(And now that the fakery has been officially admitted, you'd think the folks who published things like this laughably doctored photo of a large crowd, containing obvious Photoshop artifacts, would admit it. But so far... not so much, nope.)

You'd think that learning all this would have crippled the American public's faith in both the government and media.

Maybe it would have... if we had heard about it."

Just for info, CommonDreams reproduced this LA Times article which acknoedges the US Army and Psyop's role in the staute being taken down. Ie, it was a staged event.