Media What’s More Terrifying than Iran Testing Three Missiles?
posted by on July 10 at 14:36 PM
Iran testing four missiles. At least, that’s the logic we can glean from Iran’s state media. Images that hit the wire a couple days ago depicted four rockets blazing toward the heavens, and the photo ran on the front page of the The Los Angeles Times, The Financial Times, The Chicago Tribune and a bunch of news sites.
But, um, when the AP ran the photo, lo and behold, there were only three missiles.
The doctored photo (up top) is dissected over at The Lede.
Personally, Iran firing any missiles at all is terrifying. Not that the first thing we should do is bomb Tehran or anything, but this ordeal makes me nervous. At least now I am 25 percent less nervous about Iran than I was a minute ago (but much more concerned about our gullible mainstream press that will unquestioningly publish photos from Iran’s state media).
That's the problem with all that digital crap---any college freshman with basic Photoshop skills could gin up a picture of Lady Bird Johnson on the grassy knoll, with a smoking rifle in one hand and a bottle of Southern Comfort in the other, and no one could call it a fake.
What were those news agencies doing running a government handout, anyway? This morning it was announced that Iran had test-fired another set of missiles, then the Pentagon denied that any tests had taken place. Does anyone bother to confirm this shit anymore, or do we go to war on the basis of rumors, again?
But ... Oil Prices are up, so Cheney's happy.
Um, wait, that's a bad thing ...
Iran firing missiles (in any quantity)--not so terrifying.
What Israel will do if any of those said missiles should fall on Tel Aviv--truly terrifying.
It's beautiful. I wish everyone were doing this.
What WOULD Israel do exactly? I would actually call out to sloggers to give their opinions on the response should such a thing occur as what @3 suggested.
Are they really so volatile and narrow-viewed that they wouldn't see what a full-scale retaliation would do?
Wednesday’s Shahab firings seemed to be simply a way for the Iranians to clear out old inventory. The biggest missile that the Iranians apparently fired — known as the 3a model — is no longer even in production.
not to mention that the big cloud rocket in the middle of the "undoctored" photo is NOT the same as the one it is supposed to be above it. It does look like maybe another photo in the same timeline, but the two photos are not the same image with just an extra rocket added.
@7: I say they are the same image, or very nearly the same (+/- a couple meters, or a fraction of a second). The dust clouds kicked up by the rockets to the left and right are exactly the same in both images, so unless the majority of both photos are 'shopped, they originated from the same photo.
the added rocket and exhaust looks like an amalgam of two or all three of the originals, but it is definitely a dupe.
Uh, they're different photos - the second one shows three missiles and a truck about to fire a missile? The first one presumably is after the second one, when the truck has fired the missile, and is presumably obscured by the smoke/dust from the shot.
Presumably.
whoever made the fake sucks at photoshop. he probably doesn't even know where the photoshop is.
http://i29.tinypic.com/67ji2g.jpg
The added rocket is a combination of the dust cloud from the rocket on the right and the smoke trail from the rocket on the left. See http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/07/10/in-an-iranian-image-a-missile-too-many/index.html?hp
The artistic composition is better with four missiles going off.
If that one hadn't have been a dud, there would have been four missiles going off.
Why are we talking about this again?
I call that "errorism."
@12: You linked to a blog called The Lede? What is wrong with you?
Toe Tag wrote:
Yeah! It's as if the news media were all owned by just a handful of companies, some of whom were war contractors, many of whom are heavily influenced by the United States government, and that those media all assist with the U.S. government's efforts to keep us all afraid of our shadows. Strange.
Oh my God, the Iranians have PhotoShop? The time for diplomacy is over.
Toe Tag wrote:
Yeah! It's as if the news media were all owned by just a handful of companies, some of whom were war contractors, many of whom are heavily influenced by the United States government, and that those media all assist with the U.S. government's efforts to keep us all afraid of our shadows. Strange.
@15: I know, I know. But I wanted their good graphic.
Anyone actually scared by this is such a sheeple ... you are Bush bait. You are why Iraq got invaded with little public protest.
Some time in the future the middle east is going to be a green, glowing doughnut of radioactive material and Israel is going to be the livable hole in the center.
Iranian Revolutionary Guard seeks new Photoshop Pro :)
http://seattle.craigslist.org/see/rnr/750267822.html
That's hilarious. Really obvious photoshop job, too. Looks like they tried to vary it a bit with the little rubber stamp tool, but sheesh... surely someone over there is better with photoshop than that?
The obviousness of the Photoshop job is intentional. This is to get the public to believe Iran is playing games with its military image, which in turn will get the American public to feel Iran is vulnerable to attack.
You do want to support the Israeli families of the same central bankers who are destroying your retirement and standard of living, don't you? You will support Israel at all costs, won't you? Israel is, afterall, the 53rd state of the USA.
Feh,
It's not like despots haven't been doctoring their photos for propaganda purposes - pretty much since the invention of photography.
Just check out some of Stalin's famous "disappearing party leaders" photos from the 30's and 40's as an example.
'Course they looked just as ineptly doctored as these do, but at least they had the excuse of not having access to digital rendering software "back in the day"...
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