This weeks Wednesday's Weird Web Thievery image is a nice segway into one of the big news stories this week, the reported assassination of an unarmed Osama Bin Laden in the middle of the night in his retirement villa deep in Pakistani territory.
Many of you may have already seen the "leaked" image supposedly of Osama Bin Laden's dead body. New Zealand major TV Network, TV3, even ran with the image on the far right yesterday before realising that it was a fake. All of this amongst an increasingly loud background conversation anout the suggestion that the US Government is debating whether or not they will release images at all.
Pays to check I guess.

In this digital age it has become increasingly easy to generate an image of anything you want, no matter how fanciful. Where this all comes unstuck is in times like these when sensationalist journalism runs rampant. In a bid to gain leverage on a story some journalists will take things they see at face value. This only perpetuates and embeds the problem even more.

We have become a collective society full of mistrust and paranoia of late. The levels of skeptisim must surely be at an all time high. It is photoshop fails such as this which just make matters worse. It has become harder and harder to know just what to believe anymore, with so many conflicting sides to every major story, all backed up by "facts".
As much as I want to wade right into this conversation regarding the demise of Osama Bin Laden, this business blog is not really the appropriate forum. Check out my personal profile on TussockJumper.com for that angle!