Reuters Reports Admit To Hizbullah Direction

Rusty at the Jawa Report points out this ABC News story courtesy of Reuters:

There was no sign of Hizbollah guerrillas as the Lebanese troops moved south. Even unarmed members of the group seen on previous days riding around on scooters and giving instructions to journalists and residents in the south had disappeared.

Hizbollah has promised to cooperate with Lebanese and U.N. troops, but has made clear it will not disarm or quit the south.

Two Reuters reporters, Yara Bayoumy and Lin Noueihed, produced this text. Reuters and other media types have defended the actions of journalists claiming that they would not be involved in cooking up news or exaggerating news items/photos, etc. And yet, we have still more evidence that Hizbullah was directing reporters and pushing their agenda.

The fact that we continually hear from reporters in South Lebanon claiming that they were coerced or intimidated by Hizbullah (see Michael Totten, et al.) and that we now have reports that Hizbullah was sending around their goons to direct journalists suggests that the media outlets might have been taken for a ride by Hizbullah, which is something that the news outlets deny, despite the growing evidence of chicanery.

Reuters and the other news outlets must account for their reporting in Lebanon - and their refusal/inability to provide facts and straight reporting despite the fact that Hizbullah was stage-managing incidents throughout the warzone in Lebanon.