Times Magazine Alters Blackout Caption

Pajamas Media has a post about the media's collusion with the Hamas hoax about blackouts in Gaza. Roger L. Simon and Michael Weiss note how Time changed the caption to their picture below--
The original caption was:

Blackout
The Israeli embargo has left the Gaza Strip without electricity. The Palestinian Parliament was forced to meet by candlelight on Tuesday night.

The light coming through the curtain in the upper left leaves the accuracy of that caption in doubt, so now the caption reads:

Blackout
The Israeli embargo has left the Gaza Strip without electricity. To emphasize its plight the Palestinian Parliament met by candlelight on Tuesday.

Of course, the fact that Israel did not cut off all electricity cannot be contradicted by the photo, so that part stays in. So much for journalistic integrity.

So who is responsible for the the captions?

Stelios Varias of the Reuters Washington bureau told me that all the variable captions on the above photograph were filed by Reuters on Jan. 22. None of them contained the word “night.” The version that did therefore must have been created by TIME. —MW

Technorati Tag: Media Bias and Gaza.