03-05-2011, 01:49 PM
Albert Doyle Wrote:Why would they do something so dumb as make fake pictures obviously taken directly from 10 year old photos of Bin Laden?
It depends on who "they" are. One thing I've noticed about the press lately is that they've gotten really really lazy. One of them digs up a photoshopped image on the net and the rest pile on so as not to be scooped by the other guys. It might be interesting to track where this image first appeared, if someone has a whole lot of time to kill. We might even manage to figure out who "they" are after all.
Something I've also noticed lately is that there is a certain segment of the press that grew up without the internet and still does not understand the ease with which this kind of fraud can be "busted." It's not "dumb" so much as ignorant.