The Boston Herald weighs in on the recent Reuters controversy.
The lesson of the Reuters photo fakery scandal is nothing any hapless once-bitten carnival mark couldn’t have warned them about.
Discredited photographer Adnan Hajj was employing the oldest and worst-kept secret in any con artist’s bag of tricks: People will see what they want to see. They will believe what they want to believe.
And when you're done, you can go burp Ned Lamont!
Ned Lamont’s grandfather (see "Whoops" at end of post), Corliss Lamont, was a brilliant, very wealthy by inheritance, communist fellow-traveler through the ‘30’s and ‘40’s and ‘50’s, who continued in such anti-U.S. foreign policy crusades on to his death in 1995, having opposed the 1991 Persian Gulf War.
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