Wag the Dog: Media Publish Photoshop Forgery To Sell Image of War Torn Syria!

• Wag the Dog: Media Publish Photoshop Forgery to Sell Image of War Torn Syria! 
  by Aaron Dykes, www.Infowars.com 
  While mainstream press have been hailing the virtues of the alliance between al Qaeda, the Syrian Free Army and the West  in opposing Assad in Syria, they’ve also been caught once again “faking the war” to play up sympathy for an all out invasion.
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  Austria’s largest daily paper, Kronen Zeitung, with some 3 million readers daily, published this sympathetic photo, seemingly portraying a man carrying a baby and a woman in burka fleeing from some war-torn corner of Aleppo. However, it was later exposed to be a Photoshop forgery, juxtaposing the people walking on a normal looking corner with that of a blown out city block ravaged by heavy damage.
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  The subjects were apparently taken from the previously-published file photo credited to the European Pressphoto Agency, as the publishing notes next to the image indicate. The revealing side by side comparison was first posted to Reddit.com. Gizmodo points out:
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  Just to be clear, the family in the photograph is, in fact, in Syria; the original photo (on the right) came from the European Pressphoto Agency. But merely fleeing a city ravaged by guns and mortars apparently isn’t quite dramatic enough on its own. The editors of the Krone—as it’s commonly called—needed this baby to sing.
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  A nearly identical example of war propaganda is depicted in the 1997 film Wag the Dog, where green screen technology was used to place an actor in a studio with a kitten in a war torn zone in Bosnia:
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