In these times when huge technological advancements have been made in the media industry, especially in live transmissions, it is nearly impossible to fool the people. That is why people seeking to spread false propaganda stand exposed. The likes of Ahmed Saeed and Al-Sahhaf have lost their credibility, and so also have people in the Persian media, such as Walid Al-Muallem, Bashar Jaafari and Hassan Nasrallah. The days of fabricating images in the media are long over. Even children can now easily differentiate between what is fake and genuine. Media organs are now ineffective in depicting falsehoods and enjoy credibility only when, and if, they reflect reality. But the rebel media in Yemen have apparently failed to comprehend this new reality. They are regularly attempting to hoodwink viewers with their desperate stories of "achievements" on the ground when, in reality, there are none. They use photo-editing software, freely available online, to relay doctored images to unsuspecting viewers. Such software can help in changing the background of images to resemble a battlefield, or a simple matchstick flame to be a fiery inferno on the war front. This deceitful media game is being played by Iran and has been adopted as a war strategy, with the outskirts of southern Beirut as the base for churning out fiction. The Hezbollah group is a master at the game through years of experience. They have been turning defeat into illusionary victory through falsified imagery for the Yemeni rebels to air, as part of their misinformation campaign. Today's viewers are well-informed and will not easily fall for such fraudulent media operations. The rebels and their masters simply fail to realize this.
