Media Frenzy Rant

Hoefully post in some stuff here for the seminar that im giving in a couple of weeks about "Photojournalism: Media Frenzy"

Havnt got around to putting stuff up here yet but ive been thinking about lots of things for it:

-The Iranian Doctored Photos of the misslie launch - propaganda yet created a frenzy in the press.
-The APA (or was it Getty?) photographer that was fired for doctoring photos of a bombing in Beirut in 2006
-I'm sure there was another one recently when Israel attacked Gaza (not last time but the time before)
-The way in which these images are treated as "the truth" because they come fomr the press/meida. But thanks to the Internet they do get questioned...
-The Image of James Bolger being lead out of the train station...i think the word 'frenzy' definatly applies to the treatment of that image. The effect that this image and the medias treatment of it has had on the use of surveillance??
-Uhhh should probably slip in some photographers??

Maybe the ones that look at the perception of teh real and what is the truth. The way in which we accept the image as the truth because it is a photograph, a moment of time captured. Yet today more than ever this is so changable and easily manipulated but it do we now see more people trusting what they see on tv/in the press??