News- no, it's propoganda

[Alex]

Ok, nobody was around so I read the first link. If accurate (and I have no way of judging that) in the accounts of the timestamps it is an interesting analysis and the wires should be troubled by it.

Anderson Cooper did an interesting bit last week (I think, maybe the week before) where they showed a clip that someone had broadcast from inside southern Lebanon and then he showed the footage his crew had done of the same scene with context showing that it was a publicity stunt put on by Hezbollah (essentially it was showing the ambulance crews and stuff going out on call to much crowd adulation but the crowd had been gathered for the press and the ambulances were just driving around the block.

This is not to imply that propoganda doesn't come out of the other side, just that they haven't yet achieved Reagan-like subtlety in staging them.