This expose of photographic manipulation techniques is also highly relevant to many aspects of the Srebrenica narrative. While focusing on a different conflict, it shows how images can be deceptive and it warns that often a professional eye—or professional guidance—may be required for the misleading impression to be identified and dispelled.

BYZANTINE BLOG Orthodox Journal

Deceiving the World with Pictures:

The role of the media in fanning and then misrepresenting the Balkan conflict of the 90s has been one of the dirtiest. To paraphrase, the media became a handmaiden of power politics. Most of the media proved no more than pathetic transmission belts for the rankest sort of propaganda which originated in various government and PR offices.
Skeptical readers are invited to view the recently emerged evidence that some of CNN’s Gulf War “reporting” from Saudi Arabia actually emanated from a studio and was therefore fake:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xIZh1nm8Lzg

We present Jared Israel’s incisive critique of the famous video of six young men being killed which was used as “smoking gun” evidence in the Milošević trial to corroborate the official version of the Srebrenica narrative.
Mr. Israel has his own website, “The Emperor’s New Clothes” [http://www.tenc.net/], where he comments on a wide variety of issues. We offer his thoughts on the Srebrenica video for his trenchant analysis of that particular issue, which stands or falls on its own merits. The reader is the ultimate judge.

By Brendan O’Neill
http://www.thoughtleader.co.za/brendanoneill/2009/01/07/whoring-the-holocaust/

During the civil war in Bosnia from 1992 to 1995, Holocaust imagery was rife in Western media coverage and in the pronouncements of Western politicians. Then, the Bosnian Serbs were labelled as the “new Fourth Reich”. The Guardian called them the “tinpot Nazis of the Balkans”. Others said the Bosnian Serbs were “committing the same crimes” as the Nazis, carrying out a “Holocaust” against Bosnian Muslims. Anyone who argued that, while the war in Bosnia was unquestionably terrible, it could not be compared to the crimes of the Nazis or seriously described as a “genocide”, was labelled a “denier” – a slur that provocatively sprung from the phrase “Holocaust denier”.

Russell Gordon was a stretegic policy analyst for The international Strategic Studies Association, specializing in Mexico and the Balkans. He is a journalist and photographer, based in Serbia.

Gordon produced the Media War Project (Media War: The Use and Mis-Use of the Visual Image in News Coverage and Propaganda), a 15 year study of the visual media war against the Serbs, and how photographs were manipulated to influence world public opinion against the Serbs.

Please view Russell Gordon’s presentation: MEDIA WAR, The use and Mis-Use of the Visual Image in News Coverage and Propaganda, at the following web address:

http://www.slideshare.net/marktwain381/media-war-presentation