Australia’s Foreign Minister, Alexander Downer (pictured), slammed media coverage of Lebanon, singling out Reuters’ doctored photos and the recent ambulance incident. Wrote The Australian:
He accused “some of the world’s most prestigious media outlets” of falling for a hoax in their reporting of an alleged aerial attack on a Lebanese Red Cross ambulance by Israel.
“After closer study of the images of the damage to the ambulance, it is beyond serious dispute that this episode has all the makings of a hoax,” Mr Downer said.
“Yet some of the world’s most prestigious media outlets, including some of those represented here today (Monday), ran that story as fact – unchallenged, unquestioned.”….
A spokesman for Mr Downer said the media had failed to prove its case the ambulance had been struck by a missile.
