LaPrensa airbrushed the blood out of the Isis Obed Murillo photo

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http://narcosphere.narconews.com/thefield/honduras-whats-black-and-white-and-gets-red-out

Comparison photos at the link.

CubaDebate has an illuminating find regarding the coverage of the crisis in Honduras by the pro-coup newspaper, La Prensa.

The now-iconic photograph of the late 19-year-old Isis Obed Murillo, being carried by his friends to seek medical help moments after his shooting by gunmen during Sunday’s demonstrations in Tegucigalpa, was also published by the Honduran daily… Except that La Prensa chose to airbrush the young man’s blood out of the photo.

Media that literally whitewashes the story to this extreme, of course, is not shut down, destroyed or attacked by the coup regime. That treatment is reserved only for real journalists.

But nor can these two-bit propaganda rags – members of the Inter American Press Association (IAPA) industry lobbying group of newspaper owners - be described as journalism at all.

[magbana]

1. I'm not surprised. Two pictures keep popping into my head over and

over. The picture of Murrillo being carried by his friends and his mother lying across his casket.

[Judi Lynn]

2. Too bad nothing can be done to charge them for this deceit. It's unforgiveable.

Thank you for making sure people get the chance to examine this treachery.

It's overwhelming.

[flamingdem]

3. That is so lame. The power of the photo is the blood of a young man

I know that photo got to me precisely for that detail.