{"id":677,"date":"2010-06-10T21:27:50","date_gmt":"2010-06-11T01:27:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/faculty.bbc.edu\/mstallard\/?p=677"},"modified":"2010-06-10T21:27:50","modified_gmt":"2010-06-11T01:27:50","slug":"honesty-integrity-and-the-gaza-flotilla","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/our-hope.org\/blog\/2010\/06\/honesty-integrity-and-the-gaza-flotilla\/","title":{"rendered":"Honesty, Integrity, and the Gaza Flotilla"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am not sure if you saw this or not.\u00a0 But I ran across an article discussing the fact that Reuters, the well-known news service, modified pictures of the Gaza Flotilla episode when Israeli forces stopped the boats headed to Gaza.\u00a0 Reuters apparently removed weapons in the pictures such as knives\u00a0in the hands of the activists on the boats as they attempted to fight the Israelis who had boarded.\u00a0 Why would Reuters do such a thing?\u00a0 Apparently they are not just reporting the news.\u00a0 They are trying to manipulate opinion in a direction against Israel by portraying the activists as more helpless than they actually were.\u00a0 If you are interested in checking out the photos, go to this link:\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wnd.com\/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&amp;pageId=164073\">http:\/\/www.wnd.com\/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&amp;pageId=164073<\/a>.\u00a0 The article is entitled &#8220;Reuters cropping knives out of flotilla photos?&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am not sure if you saw this or not.\u00a0 But I ran across an article discussing the fact that Reuters, the well-known news service, modified pictures of the Gaza Flotilla episode when Israeli forces stopped the boats headed to Gaza.\u00a0 Reuters apparently removed weapons in the pictures such as knives\u00a0in the hands of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/our-hope.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/677"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/our-hope.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/our-hope.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/our-hope.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/our-hope.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=677"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/our-hope.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/677\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/our-hope.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/our-hope.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/our-hope.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}