Friday, April 24, 2020

"Fake news", caught in the act


The Gateway Pundit reports:

Many of you have by now seen various photos of medical workers boldly standing in front of lock down protesters like they are in Tiananmen Square or something — but what the media hasn’t shown you is that the photos are being faked.

In an instance of photo staging by the media caught on Facebook Live, a car with lock down protesters comes to a stop at a traffic light. As soon as they did, a medical worker hopped in front of their car with photographers, had a few photos snapped, then crossed the street like nothing happened.

The woman filming the staged photo-op quickly called the photographers out and urged them not to publish the faked photos.

“You’re a fraud!” she screamed as they walked off, never having actually protested.

Click over there to follow the Twitter link and see the video for yourself.  It's a classic example of media fakery - and proves that photographic "evidence" may not necessarily be true at all.

It's come to the point where one should automatically distrust any and every media report about the coronavirus pandemic, or President Trump's handling of the situation, unless and until it's corroborated by independent, trustworthy sources.  The media generally isn't interested in the truth - only in how they can twist the "facts" to suit their partisan political agenda.




Peter

15 comments:

Old NFO said...

Considering the number of photos that are showing up in the MSM and claimed to be from Italy and New York when they are the SAME picture, just like the beach scenes that are identical, I don't believe anything I see anymore... sigh

Bob said...

Yep... probably not even a nurse. Just another "reporter" dressed up to look like one. What a bunch of worthless creeps.

Sam L. said...

I never believe the media. They/it lieeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeees.

mark leigh said...

Nothing new really Staged reporting is the rule. Got to get the right look for the camera. A few of the fakerys caught on camera of weather fantasy are hilarious and utterly condemning.

Ray - SoCal said...

Anyone can buy a set of scrubs.

To me it’s more Alinsky tactics.

Ritchie said...

Photos of the counter protest in Denver have been widely circulated and social media coverage got thousands of "likes" in just a few hours, suggesting that arrangements were made in advance. A local talk host at radio station KNUS has identified most of those involved, and interviewed several of them on the air. One of the scrub-wearers appears to be a disc jockey at a strip club.

Aesop said...

"A Lie is halfway around the world before the Truth has got its boots on."

Gordon Scott said...

Back when the Lightbringer was running things, the White House was pushing Obamacare. They had a photo op set up in the garden so that the president could hector a bunch of invited MDs. One of the aides told the doctors they should wear their white coats. The doctor pointed out that those are called lab coats for a reason; they don't wear them outside the clinic. The aide had the solution all ready; each doctor was given a white lab coat to wear.

It's kind of like when you see Dr. Oz wearing scrubs in the studio, or one of his guests wearing a lab coat.

Derfel Cadarn said...

A mask and scrubs,available in Amazon, does not make one a healthcare worker. Just more take news.

Unknown said...

Yes. I first read that DJT was recommending people inject bleach to kill the virus, 2 days ago. I scrolled up to check the site, and yes it was an MSM site... CNBC as I recall. I mentally filed the report away as probable BS. And so it proved to be.

Tom in NC said...

At this point, I am baffled as to why anything done by the media is taken as a representation of any truth. Remember the report on Dateline when NBC rigged a pickup truck to explode when it crashed? That was quite a while ago. There's also a myriad of times reports by 'well respected journalists' have been caught pushing baloney dressed as news, a lot of it maliciously done. Hello, Dan Rather etc all.

Bibliotheca Servare said...

That particular photo is fake, and despicable, but it looks like this sort of thing has really happened, in Arizona at least: https://www.foxnews.com/us/arizona-coronavirus-nurse-lockdown-protesters

Reading the article, it's clear that the nurse has no idea why she opposes ending the lockdown, just that she knows she's supposed to, and "patients" allegedly oppose ending the lockdown. She herself admits that she knows nothing about the rate of spread, how it's changed, or any of the information that is a involved is assessing the decision to end the lockdown.

So, a stupid stunt by (in this area) ignorant twits, but these ignorant twits happen to be legitimate nursing professionals.

Unknown said...

Rather reminds me of the "brave" Palestinian teen throwing rocks at Israeli soldiers. Someone turned their camera around to show a couple of hundred photographers snapping pix of the incident.

Unknown said...

Actually, IIRC, Obozo's photo op with "doctors" actually used a bunch of his White House staff members with lab coats on -- they weren't even doctors.

Of course, being the darling of the Proggies, he was given a pass and the story buried.

cheeflo said...

The media is also running the same professional stock photography of crowded beaches as re-opened in Florida and California. Drone photography shows people are still observing distancing.