On one hand, yeah we’re losing to a bunch of clowns. On the other hand, admirable message discipline. These tools can’t decide on their media strategy for the West – “are we genocidal fanatics who can’t be stopped or peace loving victims who must be cared for” – but give them a cloying anti-American fantasy with overtly sexualized blue cat people and they’ll focus on it like a laser.
You’ll have to go over to the Telegraph for the full picture gallery, but I recommend to your attention pictures #4 and #8. On Zombietime’s definitive taxonomy of fauxtography they fall under numero tres, “photographers themselves staging scenes or moving objects, and presenting photos of the set-ups as if they were naturally occurring.” I can see an argument for why they might be examples of numero dos, “photographing scenes staged by [the Palestinians] and presenting the images as if they were of authentic spontaneous news events.” But honestly I don’t think these tools have the wherewithal to frame a shot.
Anyway, here are the Avatar reviews from the single greatest film critic of our generation. If you have some time you should make a point of checking out the rest of the reviews on Red Letter Media. If you don’t have a couple hours to spare I wouldn’t click through though, since you’ll have wasted a couple hours and you didn’t have them to spare. You will never be the same. Also, content warning:
H/t goes to SP. Again.
References:
* Filmmaker: You Know Who’s A Lot Like Avatar’s Na’vi? The Palestinians. [MR]
* Palestinians dressed as the Na’vi from the film Avatar stage a protest against Israel’s separation barrier [Telegraph]
* Media Fauxtography Now In Full Swing [MR]
* Reviews [Red Letter Media]
Related Mere Rhetoric Categories:
* Palestinians
* Media Bias
* Anti-Israel Journalism
