FRIDAY'S LETTERS: More on Greg Mitchell's Defense of War Photogs

By: E&P Staff In today's letters' readers respond to Greg Mitchell's columns in defense of photojournalists.

Read the first part of the column here, and the second part here.


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Mitchell and War Photogs

Whilst I aknowledge that many blogs are attempting to suggest that the victims at Qana were not caused by Isreali fire, I have to say that the Eureferendum site makes no such claim. No hinting about "Green Helmet" being an undertaker or bringing corpses to the scene have been made by Richard North. His article does not suggest that the children were not killed by the IDF, he simply indicates how the vast majority of photographs and videos taken at the scene were anything other than spontaneous. If the shots are not spontaneous then they are staged.

As for myself, I have been left-wing in my views and opinions for as long as I care to remember but North has raised many questions regarding selective news reporting and media bias.

Michael Horsley
Norway



You have written possibly the most disingenous article I have ever read. The blogs were not trying to discredit photo journalism; rather they were pointing out the fact that the majority of photojournalists shoot what they are presented without being willing (or in many cases able) to check if what they are shown is true.

It is interesting that you cannot actually disprove the fraudulent ambulance story. The best you can muster is an Israeli admission that it "carried out the attack" or was that "an attack".

Jay Currie



Right Wing Bloggers are looking for altered photographs and they are offended. Their hypocrisy is showing. If they're offended at altered photographs, whey are they not offended by the altered reality presented by the Bush Administration almost daily? It's my opinion that but for George W. Bush, Jimmy Carter would be remembered as America's worst president.

William Adkins
Williamstown, Ky.


Only those photographers coloring their shots need be embarrassed, the majority are not tainted, as your column states. Brave is for those covering both sides.

Al Zimmerman


[Greg Mitchell is] a joke and a fraud. Failure to acknowledge the overwhelming documentation of fraud by your terrorist friends, and either accessory by Western journalists (worst case) or utter negligence and incompetance (best case) proves this to be true.

That fraudulent stories on the Red Cross ambulance hoaxes appeared in Time, NY Times, Boston Globe, NBC, and via AP exposes them all as utterly incompetant, but only if you don't buy the theory that they are actively involved in propagandistic deception against Israel and America.

Phil Connors