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UPDATE [Brian]: I just got word from DMartyr that Newsweak has silently corrected the map in question. No admission of error, no correction, no nothing.

Welcome to the New Soviet Era, my airbrush-loving friends.

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FINAL UPDATE [DMartyr]: As Brian mentioned, Newsweek quietly changed the map without acknowledging the egregious error. The pop-up now shows the Palestinian Territories properly.

Some of you may wonder why the incorrect display was such an issue. It is a major issue, as I see it, for one of two reasons - either the Newsweek editors are ignorant of basic Middle East geography or they have an agenda.

If ignorance was the cause of the error, how can we trust the reliability of the article "Learning to Live with Radical Islam"? If they can't even differentiate between Israel and a Palestinian Territory on a map, what makes them credible when it comes to the complex nature of Islam? (And I won't even go into the inconsistencies, fallacies and misstatements within the article.)

If they have an agenda - if the map 'error' was some sort of political statement - then the article accompanying the map should be immediately discredited as a product of biased reporting.

At best, Newsweek lacks the knowledge to attempt to educate readers on Radical Islam, and at worst, the article is propaganda. Either way, Newsweek has demonstrated a lack of integrity in this matter, and that reflects on the organization as a whole.

Thanks to all who helped spread this post. Your support, as always, is greatly appreciated.

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I see Brian is on the ball with the story about Newsweek's latest cover. The dhimmis at Newsweek suggest how to 'live' with radical Islam. I'm assuming that's not an inside joke, and that in 'live' they mean accepting as a part of life, as opposed to mocking victims of Islamic terrorists.

I could be wrong there.

But Newsweek online also includes this interactive map. If you mouse-over the 'Palestinian Territory', you get this:

(Click for entire screenshot)

FYI, that's a map of ISRAEL, not Palestine.

Hmm, now I'm starting to believe that 'live' is a bad dhimmi joke...

(Hat Tip: Avid Editor's Insights)
(Cross-Posted at Al Salibiyyah)

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From a post at LightStalkers, we hear that photojournalist Paolo Pellegrin, working for the New York Times Magazine, was injured in Tyre, Lebanon on the 6th of August. We wish Paolo a speedy recovery!

Paolo has an extensive portfolio of his work on MagnumPhoto, which includes shoots of Kosovo which are reminiscent of the recent Qana imbroglio; though for the record, Paolo is more of an artistic photographer than a wire service stringer. Paolo has published five books of his photography, and his work has been featured in Newsweek, along with other magazines.

Here is the post from LightStalkers, sent in by fellow photographer Robert Goddyn:

photograph journalist Paolo Pellegrin has touched on 6 augusts wounded at a rocket attack in the south of Lebanon. Pellegrin stayed in the city Tyre with report donor Scott Anderson van The New York Times magazine. Anderson, Pellegrin and their driver incurred lord shaking thing and wounds of grenade shards. They got first aid in Tyre and have been vervolgens examined in a hospital in Beirut. Meanwhile they are to the work.

Pellegrin and Anderson reason in the first car of a convoy, and stopped beside a man who had touched at a rocket attack wounded. Exactly then they from their car stepped a second rocket meant about six meters distance, where the gewonde man came for living.

Pellegrin, born in 1964, have been since 2005 member of magnum Photos and have been have experienced conflict photographer. He had won already a lot of prices (among other things at World Press Photo) and has worked since 2000 as a contract photographer for the illustrated magazine Newsweek.