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This is the definition of....
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   ....[1]obtuse. The AP paints a picture of "Green Helmet" as if he's
   your selfless, self-sacrificng aid worker, laboring tirelessly to
   rescue victims from the rubble. They even asked him directly if he was
   a member of Hezbollah. He, of course, denies it all.
   Then there's this.

     The baby at Qana died when Israeli missiles slammed into a house â
     a response, Israel said, to rockets that Hezbollah fired from
     nearby. The building collapsed on two families that had taken
     refuge inside. Twenty-eight bodies were recovered â more than half
     of them children.
     The recovery, as witnessed by an AP team that arrived at the scene
     along with other journalists, was exhausting, heart-rending work.
     Because of debris from earlier Israeli airstrikes, ambulances could
     not reach the site. Rescue workers, tired and sweating, ran uphill
     to the ambulances with bodies of women and children on stretchers.
     After hours of digging, Daher emerged with the youngest victim. In
     a parched voice, he shouted something in Arabic and held the child
     up for the photographer.
     To many in the West, such photographs are surprising; but they are
     not unusual in the Middle East, where grief and drama are often
     intertwined, and that can include displaying of bodies.
     Bloggers have accused rescue workers and volunteers of showing off
     victims for the media. The Lebanese make no apologies for wanting
     the world to see the civilian suffering in the Israeli onslaught
     aimed at uprooting Hezbollah.

   Isn't this amazing? Here, with a completely straight face, AP admits
   that the Lebanese pose their dead for photo ops. Yet just the other
   day they [2]vehemently protested that they do no such thing.
   "......a response, Israel said, to rockets that Hezbollah fired from
   nearby." In other words, we don't really believe Israel, but we'll
   print what they said. Nevermind that we have photographic and
   eyewitness proof that Hezbollah was firing rockets from the roof of
   the house. Minor detail. Minor detail. Not really important to our
   story.....besides, we never covered that, so it never happened.
   "Because of debris from earlier Israeli airstrikes, ambulances could
   not reach the site." And yet, we have [3]video of an ambulance nearby,
   with a young boy being loaded into it, then taken out and paraded
   before the cameras, by none other than "Green Helmet".
   This entire "explanation" is a pack of lies. At one time, we would
   have accepted it, because we didn't know any different. No longer.
   EU Referendum [4]rips the AP to shreds in a blow-by-blow analysis of
   their lies and bias. Blue Crab Boulevard [5]nails the AP as well,
   writing, "They literally cannot keep their lies straight anymore.
   There are simply too many of them." Say Anything [6]astutely observes,
   "the techniques journalists apply to the President of the United
   States, for instance, stand in stark contrast to the way they treat an
   alleged "civil defense worker" who is accused based on some pretty
   good evidence of being a propagandist for terrorists."
   Look for media credibility to take a further dive, perhaps even into
   the single digits. They may have the bully pulpit, but fewer and fewer
   are listening. (Hat tip to [7]memeorandum.)

References

   1. http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060812/ap_on_re_mi_ea/mideast_fighting_green_helmet_1
   2. http://www.antimedia.us/posts/1155269669.shtml
   3. http://littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/?entry=22063
   4. http://eureferendum.blogspot.com/2006/08/corruption-of-media.html
   5. http://bluecrabboulevard.com/2006/08/12/ap-to-the-rescue/
   6. http://sayanythingblog.com/2006/08/11/ap_goes_on_defense_for_hezbollah_propagandist/
   7. http://www.memeorandum.com/060812/p7#a060812p7