The Air Force gets some--and what's the AP up to

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The Air Force gets some--and what's the AP up to?
Home Based Life! --Thermonuclear Thoughts ^ | 12 January 2007 | Me
On Thursday my brothers in the blue suits put 40,000 pounds of iron on Al Qaida with F-16s and B-1s. It appears that this is the last stage of clearing out the Baghdad area.
What I find especially interesting is that some versions of the AP story went out on the wire with this photo...

The caption (not included in some versions of the story, most notably the one on Breitbart) went like this: Children watch as U.S. army soldiers from Ghostrider Company, 3rd Squadron, 2nd Stryker Cavalry Regiment, unseen, search their home during Operation Phantom Phoenix in the village of Abu Musa on the northern outskirts of Muqdadiyah, in the volatile Diyala province, about 90 kilometers (60 miles) north of Baghdad, Iraq, Thursday, Jan. 10, 2008. The U.S. military launched Operation Phantom Phoenix on Tuesday as a nationwide campaign against al-Qaida in Iraq. (AP Photo/Marko Drobnjakovic) Source
Am I paranoid, or does it seem to you readers that the AP could have run any number of pics of warplanes taking off to execute these missions, or bomb damage or even stock photos of the B-1, but instead they run a picture of little kids looking out a window at a related ground operation and leave the caption off. Sure, the story includes coverage of ground action, but news photos require captions, especially if they are of something that's not directly related to the headline. I'm thinking the idea was to leave the impression that American warplanes are bombing targets right near little Iraqi kids who must stay inside to have any chance of avoiding the rain of iron death from the sky.
At this point, I can't really put anything past the media.

Hey AP...if you had done a 30 second photo search, you could have grabbed a public domain photo like this one:

Do y'all need me to write the caption for you, too?

At this point, I can’t really put anything past the media.
AKA “The EneMedia.”

Do they even teach ethics in Journalism programs nowadays??? Geesh...

Sure.
Except probably with titles like
"Circumnavigating Ethical Considerations 101"


Yes, but when you're convinced you're a crusader for all that is good, you start to think that's justification for a lot of things.

It’s the media template, TROOPS BAD, TERRORISTS HELD AT GITMO GOOD.