Lies and More Lies

This is how it read, coming off the tickertape (okay, computer Internet connections), at 9:07 AM ET this morning:-

Lebanon says Israeli air raid kills 40
Mon Aug 7, 2006
By Lin Noueihed

BEIRUT (Reuters) - An Israeli air raid killed more than 40 people in a Lebanese village on Monday, Lebanon's prime minister said, and other air strikes killed 19 after diplomatic efforts to end the 27-day-old war stalled.

"An hour ago, a horrific massacre took place in Houla village as a result of the intentional Israeli bombardment that resulted in more than 40 martyrs," Prime Minister Fouad Siniora told an emergency Arab foreign ministers meeting in Beirut.

Residents of Houla said they feared up to 60 people, including many children, had been killed. They said most of the people were shepherds who had refused to flee the fighting.

Nineteen people were killed in separate strikes on other villages in the south and the eastern Bekaa valley.

Speaking before news of the Houla raid, Lebanese Health Minister Mohammad Khalifeh said the war had killed 925 people, mostly civilians, with 75 missing, presumed dead.

About one-third of the dead were children under the age of 13, he told Reuters. Ninety-four Israelis have also been killed.

and this is how it now appears:-

AP News Alert
Aug 07 11:17 AM US/Eastern
BEIRUT, Lebanon

The Lebanese prime minister says only one person died in an Israeli air raid on the southern village of Houla, lowering the death toll from 40.

Add this:-

Reuters admits to more image manipulation

Reuters has withdrawn a second photograph and admitted that the image was doctored, following the emergence of new suspicions against images provided by the news organization. On Sunday, Reuters admitted that one of its photographers, Adnan Hajj, used software to distort an image of smoke billowing from buildings in Beirut in order to create the effect of more smoke and damage.

and the previous photo story:-

Reuters admits altering Beirut photo

Reuters withdraws photograph of Beirut after Air Force attack after US blogs, photographers point out 'blatant evidence of manipulation.' Reuters' head of PR says in response, 'Reuters has suspended photographer until investigations are completed into changes made to photograph.' Photographer who sent altered image is same Reuters photographer behind many of images from Qana, which have also been subject of suspicions for being staged.

for laughs, read this excuse.

and interest.

and this too.

all of which adds up to "anti-Israel media bias", which is not antisemitism but it sure looks and reads and sounds like it.