Post edited 9:33 am – February 22, 2012 by News 1

Yesterday, AP published the photo below. They presented it as a story were about Palestinians throwing rocks at Israeli cars on the main highway near Hebron. This photo is particularly interesting because the photographer caught the rock right as it shattered an Israeli woman's window.

But that isn't the story, the story is really about what you see in the background. AP and the other photographers are the real story. The photograph is the real story.

If you look in the background of the picture you''ll see a Press photographer, and obviously there are others around because a different photographer took this picture.

Is it by chance that a gaggle of international media photographers happened to know exactly where to be for a "spontaneous" stone throwing event? From all the towns and all the roads in the entire Judea and Samaria, a group of international media photographers just happened to be just at the right time and place. Coincidence? Hard to believe.

The real story is about the international media apparently receiving advanced warning as to where to go to regularly get these photographs. There have even been cases in the International media where photographers helped stage the stone throwing for the story. And certainly, when a gaggle of photographers are around, the Palestinians are happy to oblige them by creating a custom story, making the photographers part of the story itself.

So which one is it here? We'll probably never know. 

But we do know there is obviously collusion, direct or indirect, going on between the organizers of these "spontaneous" stone throwing events and the international media which distributes their productions for them.