The Mexican Border

[Ben]

The Mexicans are apparently doing more to protect our border than we are.

More MSM fake news, and check out the angle of the photo, that conveniently cuts the soldier off right below the shoulder patches. The uniform is likely a giveaway, but the average MSM reader wouldn't know that, and it thus allows fake news about evil American soldiers confronting "asylum seekers" to proliferate.

https://twitchy.com/dougp-3137/2019/07/25/fake-news-in-real-time-reuters-tweet-showing-guatemalan-mother-begging-soldier-to-let-her-enter-u-s-is-missing-some-important-context/

[BobR]

I saw that pic earlier today and the soldier was identified as Mexican National Guard. But it is much easier to leave that detail out, less typing involved.

bob

eta link: https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/photo-captures-guatemalan-mother-begging-soldier-to-let-her-enter-us-2075511

[230RN]

Lying by omission is standard practice in the MSM.  Why include material facts which contradict your own views?

A lot of times this is due to higher-up editors and not necessarily because of the original reporter.  Or in this case, the  photographer, who as a matter of "good photography" and composition, would probably have included the full human figure in his original framing.

Some folks would say that omitting material facts is not lying in terms of actually telling an untruth, but I wonder how it fits in to the concept of "thou shalt not bear false witness."  I heard that phrase somewhere, but don't remember where.

Terry, 230RN

[brimic]

The article itself mentions the Mexican soldiers many times.
I can't tell if the tweet is spin, disinformation, or simply trying to cause outrage to get people to their site.

[Perd Hapley]

Comment gold:

Thankfully this Mexican soldier saved these people from the American concentration camps.

[Hawkmoon]

I can't tell if the tweet is spin, disinformation, or simply trying to cause outrage to get people to their site.

I don't see those options as mutually exclusive.