CNN Drops AP Service to Focus on Own Newsgathering
Time Warner Inc.’s CNN, the 24-hour cable news network, stopped using the Associated Press service and materials to focus on its internal newsgathering efforts.
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Did Reuters Crop Photos to Favor Muslim Flotilla Attackers?
Reuters, cited in the past for extreme anti-Israel bias, may have cropped news photos to favor the image of Muslim flotilla attackers. Reuters published the photo in the insert on the left side of the picture, showing one of the attackers without a knife. In what appears to be exactly the same as the photo on the right side, published by the leading Turkish daily Hurriyet, the picture includes the knife in the hand of the attacker, in the lower right corner. The pictures show the attackers trying to take an IDF Navy commando hostage on the Mavi Mamara ship, which was stopped by the Navy from continuing on course to Hamas-controlled Gaza Monday morning. The attackers' use of a weapon in the clash is an important news item because the “peace activists” claimed they were unarmed. Reuters apparently thought differently or simply did not want to incriminate the terror activists. In the Second Lebanon War, Reuters was caught red-handed doctoring pictures, arranging photo opportunit...