One for You, Nineteen for Me

Statistics, can't make head nor tail of them sometimes.

8 photos on a BBC website, none showing Hissbullies shooting rockets even though they started it. Ah but there is one of the IDF shooting rockets, so what's that? 100% more rockets being shot by the Israelis? Or just one to zero? Or one to eight? Can we define that as Disproportionate?

Trust the BBC to put their usual spin on things:

A BBC photo display entitled "In pictures: Conflict impact," made up of eight images, uses six out of eight pictures to illustrate damages in Lebanon."

The photographs show images of Lebanese civilians and bombed out buildings and Beirut, and carry captions such as: "A woman in Beirut cries amid the destruction."

Luckily it's not the scar faced woman from the AP photos who seems to cry about the destruction of so many of her homes. The BBC pulled her photo from their website yesterday.

The seventh photograph in the succession shows an image of an Israeli woman mourning at a funeral, with the caption "Israelis are also counting their losses."

The last picture in the series is of an Israeli in an air raid shelter, but the person in the photo is made black by shadows, and appears to be a silhouette of a human figure. The person's age, sex, or any human features are impossible to make out – an odd choice by the BBC considering the large number of available photographs of Israeli children and families in bomb shelters.

Faking war damage photos or staging war destruction photos is no big deal by the way. People smarter than you say so and you MUST take THEIR word for it because they're so trustworthy:
The BBC's website photo editor, Phil Commes, has also taken a neutral line on the faked photographs from Beirut supplied by Reuters , saying: "One man's color balancing is another man's grounds for dismissal."

I'm going to go out on a limb here with my opinion:

I think faking news photographs is wrong.

Save the CGi magic for advertising and movies.