Back in July, when Iran first launched Press TV, a state-subsidized, 24 hour, English-language news network, Louis Wittig wrote a piece for THE DAILY STANDARD analyzing some of the station’s early reporting. His conclusion: “Press TV broadcasts a guy in a collarless shirt telling the story the Iranian government wants us to hear.” But Press TV also has a website, and like most internet propaganda from that part of the world, the people that put it together are often pretty lazy about where they pull their images from–which, on occasion, leads to a phenomenon commonly referred to in blogosphere geekspeak as “pwning.” We’ve covered this here before, but I always find the result amusing. So here’s the latest from a site called The People’s Cube. It’s a screen capture of a Press TV story about how Iranian Jews have denounced foreign press reports that they were helping some of their own get out of the Islamic Republic in order to emigrate to Israel. Whoever is getting their news from these clowns must have been a bit startled by the accompanying photo…
HT: Jawa Report
