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| Posted: 17 May 2009 10:54 | ||
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Shelling doesn't spare even babies in wombs
"Shelling doesn't spare even babies in wombs" lamented the pro-Tiger media Tamilnet yesterday (15 March,) citing some photographs, as it put it of the allegedly injured or burnt-out children, to prove its point. However, what the editor of the Tamilnet did not know was the fact that the analysis of these images is neither his monopoly nor the divine right. 
The Asain Tribune felt the need of turning its microscope on these photographs as it had a sense of dejavu, on seeing them. We didn't use any sophisticated software for our analysis; any man in the street can do it by a click of a mouse: download the images to the desktop and then right click the images to view its properties. There is a warning, however: if you are a very loyal reader of the Taminet, you are in for a shock; the photographs are actually nearly two years old! We attach the photographs along with their own properties that let the cat out of the bag. These photographs were taken on 23rd September 2007 and included in the article as if the incidents took place yesterday on 15 March 2009. This is a dangerous form of journalism, as the Tamilnet never hides where it real loyalty lies in; Tamilnet is prepared to go to any length to safeguard the interests of its beleaguered paymasters at the eleventh hour - the Tamil Tigers. With the publication of the photographs, the Tamilnet takes the international community on an emotional roller-coaster, only to leave them in a dizzy state in the end - by the stale air of misinformation. 
The first people to be let down by these deliberate acts, while exploiting the freedom of speech, are the sections of Tamil Diaspora who read this publication for 'fresh news' from the troubled corner of Sri Lanka; cooked up stories are not going to provide the ingredients for a tonic to quench the thirst of curiosity. Tamilnet has been in hot water in recent times by the over-use of phrase 'genocide'. By going too far in media manipulation, it puts its battered credibility under even more intense spotlight. A section of Tamil Diaspora, who has been blindly following the Tigers, is puzzled by the lukewarm reaction by the international community to the reported news about the 'genocide'. The behavior of the Tamilnet accounts for this mystery now; it has taken people for a ride for so long that they take some of its information with a pinch of Paranthan Salt! Things of this kind show the pressure that the poor editor of the Tamilnet has been subjected to, by various quarters to appease the sections of Tamil Diaspora. Unfortunately, the gentleman has been at it, time and again. Resorting to obvious form of distortion may be his way of saying that "I don't have any thing to lose." Credibility may be just one of them. |
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