So What to Believe - Your Lying Eyes?

Here are the smiling and happy hostages in a spontaneous burst of appreciation for Ahmedinejad . . .


And here they are in a slightly wider view, not all seem quite so happy . . .

And you have to get to the Scotsman to get the whole story, where not all faces are happy and the Iranian stage manager is attempting to get the best shot . . .



This is a bit of insanity. I hope that the choice of photos and the cropping was not done to make a journalistic point by either the Guardian or the Telegraph. The two papers occupy the far left and the conservative viewpoints, respectively, of major British papers, so I think it more likely just sloppy work by the publishers. Still, it does give one pause about accepting what one sees in the news at face value.

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