The Keypoints and a note on media drive

The mess Mr. North created is so much that it is time to get some hands on it. His behaviour does call for some caustic remarks on him, however one may mess the facts with my IMNSHO (In My Not So Humble Opinion). So to avoid this I will remark several posts with a "KEYPOINTS" word. There I will put only the facts and the moments where Mr. North does a job no better than Adnan Hajj.

Am I comparing Adnan Hajj to Mr. North? No I'm telling the man is much worser than Hajj. I explain why.

Hajj didn't make the war. He used it. Yes, we may speculate that there's someone behind him. Well, possibly. But, presently, we know that:

1. Hajj retouched the photos.
2. He was caught up and the media went overdrive on him.
3. He seems to have confessed it to his bosses.
4. He was punished.

So, what we know of Hajj is that he, at least, tried to take a profit of it. By making the show more "bestial" for the audience. But the media is like that. If Rome's Coliseum still worked, it would be no surprise for me, if the media showed from every angle the show.

Now let's see Mr. North. He does the same thing as Hajj. He is using the war. For what? At least for web hits as one can read on his blog. He is eager to reach a million hit mark. Is there anything else? Possibly, but I will not speculate here my suspicions. Now, what I know of Mr. North?

1. Mr. North used the photos in a deliberate manner, not even taking the care to double check them.
2. He created a whole story by himself, contradicting himself sometimes.
3. He doesn't recognise his own errors.
4. The media is going overdrive over his speculations and multiplying them.
5. He still has to be debunked for that, or else we are just giving more ground for the Hajjs and Norths of this world.

The speculations of Mr. North are wild and cheap. But why the media is not after him but just overdriving him? I think I know why.

As an expert on my field, I had to deal with journalists. They don't want facts. They want sensation, the hot show and the scandal. And, for that, they are ready for everything. They ambush you, they pick you up somewhere and bomb an avalanche of "hot" questions. And even if you dare to say a three word phrase, that will be more than enough for them. I saw how one colleague did that mistake. Next day a popular newspaper had its second page half covered with an article that started "Expert John Doe said "What's the Hell about?"". The article was bashing him from left to right and everyone of us in our field for incompetence. The World was about to end and we could only say "What's the Hell about?"

Imagine half-page just because you dared to open your mouth. That's why when such people com to me and ask me I simply say: "Went on travel..."

Now what this has to do with Mr. North? Simple. Mr. North created a nearly soundless "debunk" of Qana's massacre. As Mr. North is not the last person in this world (he is a member of a powerful think tank btw), the media picks his junkery and overdrives it (a little at its own cost, still they did do a show there). It's a scandal! Qana's was staged up! Oh, My! Besides, the media is happy with Mr. North. He speaks in megatonnes. So they push him to the highlights. And Mr. North likes the show and overdrives even further, for his million mark hit. And the media drives him even further.

But there will be a moment when things go puff. People, like me, are noting how Mr. Norton is going on his creating "drive". The media does not have interest on it, of course. For now they need Mr. Norton, but later they will come over him. They will show blogs like this or even pick up a freelancer "in situ" which will tell "the real story behind". And then Mr. North will know what the phrase "How dare!" means to the media. He would wish to be under that building. Well under. Because the media will pick up not only him but what is behind him (no matter if they did have a part on it or not). And this will be another drive to go further...

Why I am remarking this? Well I just passed over several news and sites about EU Referendum and the BIG DEBUNK he made... But I was looking for "Qana" and not Mr. North. So I got the message. That will not stop me of debunking this jerk but I will not be sympathethic to our mass overdrivers. If things will come hot, "he's on travel"...

Oh, btw... I did see the show nearly a day before Mr. North started his overdrive... Sincerly... I noted a three photos taken from different angles when "White Tee-Shirt" started crying. Quite fashionable photos. And immediately the little lamp came up: "and here is the media for another show..." But, I saw it so many times that I didn't care. As I will not care in the future. What I care, now, is not for Mr. North, Mr. Hajj, Israel or Hezbollah. I don't even care too much for the children that died there. Nothing can help them now, apart of giving some justice to their tragedy (which they cannot use anyway). But I hope that, one day, it will not be so easy to create such involuntary actors for the Mr. Norths, Mr. Hajjs of this world.