Recently, a bunch of rightwing bloggers counted coup on the MSM when they exposed a photographer who had enhanced his pics of war in the Middle east to make them more marketable.
All well and good, but then "fauxtography" fever took over and a whole bunch of rightwing bloggers dashed of to find their own scoops.
When they looked, Lo, they found. The recent reports of an Israeli attack on a Reuters van and a previous Israeli airstrike on two ambulances came in for some heavy accusations of "Palliwood" fakery.
The trouble is, those who looked hardest at both reports now have good reson to suspect the reports weren't fakes after all. Allahpundit has experts who debunk the debunking of the Reuters van story while Dan Riehl has had second and third thoughts about debunking the ambulance attack.
I'm not going to try to make a partisan point here because I know many on the lefty side of Blogtopia can be just as over-zealous in pursuit of a "gotcha" but I will give a warning.
Hand anyone a map and a straight edge and tell them to find "ley-lines" and soon the map will be covered in straight lines. That says far more about the willingness of people to find those lines than it does about the existence of actual ley-lines.
Human beings are instinctual pattern-makers and when we really want to see a pattern it will never be all that hard to find what we go looking for. Thus are all conspiracy theories born.
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