Where’s Waldo? – informative post on /. about the photoshopped LA Times cover photo
The LA Times takes the right stand. It’s their responsibility to present ‘objective’ truth (read: facts), or at least to try to, regardless of what an appellate court might rule. That’s what makes the whole ’embeds’ situation distasteful. You’re throwing out the bias precept out the window before you even get started. At the Annenberg Discussion, the army guy gave a spiel justifying massaging of information and PR as par for the course, that all corporations and other organizations do it. And that’s true, however, there’s a word for that when used by governments and militaries. It’s called propaganda.
See also: psychological warfare, use of media as weapon