doodle
05-04-2011, 06:53 PM
I had asked if such restrictions for news againcies could be enacted but was rightfully pointed out that free media market should handle any fabrication/alteration of facts by news companies. But ould you support a law banning all tax payers funded agencies from using photoshop software?
Republican Sen. Scott Brown of Massachusetts said Wednesday that he had been fooled by a fake photograph ostensibly showing an image of bin Laden post-mortem.
"Listen, I've seen the picture," he told Fox-25 TV, according to the Boston Globe. "He's definitely dead. And if there's any conspiracy theories out there, you should put them to rest."
But Brown is now telling media outlets that "the photo that I saw and that a lot of other people saw is not authentic." His office would not say who showed the senator the fake photographs.
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-20059844-503544.html
Three senators -- Sens. Scott Brown (R-MA), Saxby Chambliss (R-GA), and Kelly Ayotte (R-NH), all Republicans on the Armed Services Committee, said they had seen a picture of the deceased bin Laden, but now are backing off.
http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/05/04/6586256-fake-out-senators-confused-over-bin-laden-photos
Republican Sen. Scott Brown of Massachusetts said Wednesday that he had been fooled by a fake photograph ostensibly showing an image of bin Laden post-mortem.
"Listen, I've seen the picture," he told Fox-25 TV, according to the Boston Globe. "He's definitely dead. And if there's any conspiracy theories out there, you should put them to rest."
But Brown is now telling media outlets that "the photo that I saw and that a lot of other people saw is not authentic." His office would not say who showed the senator the fake photographs.
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-20059844-503544.html
Three senators -- Sens. Scott Brown (R-MA), Saxby Chambliss (R-GA), and Kelly Ayotte (R-NH), all Republicans on the Armed Services Committee, said they had seen a picture of the deceased bin Laden, but now are backing off.
http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/05/04/6586256-fake-out-senators-confused-over-bin-laden-photos