Manipulation?

War is cruel. No argue about that. And not only due to the fact that many people, innocent civilians and soldiers , die or are harmed by the actions. War has it’s political face as well. Some say Napoleon is a hero, some say he was a plain murderer. Some say Hitler was not as bad as he was pictured. I say he was a vicious murderer and I hope he will never ever be reborn with other name in another country. One was enough.
As I already mentioned, war is used for political matters. The best way to show the world what is going on in the battle field is the use of modern media : the one and only internet itself. Videos, photographs, written stories, witness statements etc. They are all brought to us by the internet (first hand information).

Some time ago, one of my favorite street photographers Chris Weeks wrote in his uber blog about photographers manipulating with photographs just to “bring the real picture” to the world. Here is one example, here is another one. Even a famous photograph of unnamed Russian photographer of Berlin was found to be manipulated. There was a Russian flag added to the shot.

Big story revealed. British reporters faked a picture. This brings us to the latest war affair, Georgia. Kicked the lion in the butt, got it’s leg in his jaws. No argue, that’s the way things work. A sort of natural flow. One would be fool to expect something else to happen. On the other hand, the great powers who rejected Georgia in NATO (my country Macedonia was also rejected due to nazi-like politics of greece) are jumping around like chicken in a boiling pot and threatening Russia with sanctions. Oh please.

So, back to the point. Someone analyzed the Reuters photos from the conflict. And, they most probably are fake, too. I just got this news, can’t say anything. You make a decision for yourself.

For the record, I’m on noones side. However cruel this might sound, the conflict can only help my country to get rid of the nationalistic greek politicians blocking Macedonia to get in the European family. Doors to NATO are closer than ever. I just fell sorry for the victims. The real ones.