The Princess and the Preposterous Press Panic

 So this past weekend, Kensington Palace issued a photograph of the Princess of Wales with her 3 children, in wake of her recovering from a recent surgery.  Eagle-eyed reviewers (their own term, not mine) immediately began calling the photo into question, and caused numerous publications and news outlets to retract it; claiming multiple evidences that the photo was either fake or at very least digitally altered.   The AP (Associated Press) essentially said that they could not publish something that they willingly know is false because it would damage their reputation as journalists.  So in unison, numerous Press outlets are saying they cannot and will not publish erroneous images or information.  

What  A  Crock  Of  Shite. 

The press regularly lies to the public, publishing altered or doctored photographs; as well as publishing completely WRONG photos to bolster a fictitious story they're peddling at any given time.  Case in point in recent history-  When the Associated Press (and others by extension) decided that Israel had absolutely bombed that one hospital in Gaza and subsequently killed over 500 people.  They didn't investigate the matter themselves, took Hamas' story without question, and began publishing photos that were not related to that incident or even the current Gaza war at all; and yet, they do not acknowledge this as a stain to their beloved reputation.   After all, it's always easy to throw the Jews under the bus rather than anyone else, isn't it?  

I don't know about you, but I think that the people who have willingly peddled outright LIES on behalf of an internationally labeled terrorist organization, have no right to claim that a photo of a mother with her children is the main threat to their "Journalistic integrity".  

Here Endeth the Lesson.




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