BBC Caught In Mass Public Deception With Iran Propaganda

By GottaLaff

News corporation uses photo from pro-Ahmadinejad rally, claims it represents anti-government protest

UPDATE: I've been told to consider the source, and that Ahmadinejad hasn't been around for a couple of days, so... I copy and paste, you decide.

UPDATE #2, courtesy of Oliver Willis: Those guys are crazy conspiracy theorists. 9/11 truther nutjobs.

So: Take this post with a grain o' nutjobs. I'll leave it up just to expose them.

Wrong. No. And not too wise, I might add:

The BBC has again been caught engaging in mass public deception by using photographs of pro-Ahmadinejad rallies in Iran and claiming they represent anti-government protests in favor of Hossein Mousavi.

An image used by the L.A. Times on the front page of its website Tuesday showed Iranian President Ahmadinejad waving to a crowd of supporters at a public event.

In a story covering the election protests yesterday, the BBC News website used a closer shot of the same scene, but with Ahmadinejad cut out of the frame. The caption under the photograph read, ‘Supporters of Mir Hossein Mousavi again defied a ban on protests’. [...]

As soon as the truth about the misrepresented images surfaced on the WhatReallyHappened website yesterday, the BBC changed the photo caption on their original article. The caption now reads, ‘Tehran has seen mass demonstrations by all sides since the disputed election’.

This is not the first time the BBC has been caught red-handed using crude image and video framing techniques for the purposes of political propaganda.

Much more here.

Do they not realize the consequences of this kind of deception, especially in light of the enormity of this story?