The Freedom Tower

A Yahoo photo slideshow of Ground Zero allegedly demonstrates the bias news agencies frequently insert into captions., according to a  website called NewsBusters (newsbusters.org). ”Instead of just describing the photo, Yahoo included captions with partisan cheap shots unrelated to the image to score typical anti-War On Terror points.
Out-of-place comments about waterboarding, the downturn in the economy and a criticism of Rudy Giuliani were captioned under photos of a smoking World Trade Center and Ground Zero rubble
Go to the site and you’ll  see morning light that illuminates the wreckage of the World Trade Center on September 25, 2001 in New York. The site says the head of the CIA is saying that it is uncertain whether the use of waterboarding, a form of simulated drowning widely condemned as torture, would be lawful if used today against Al-Qaeda detainees. This photo and those comments have nothing to do with each other and when juxtaposed in a story like this, the message it suggests is clear to me.
In the same photo, the caption says  CIA director Michael Hayden for the first time admitted publicly Tuesday that the agency had used “waterboarding,” or simulated drowning, in interrogations of three top Al-Qaeda detainees nearly five years ago.

Yahoo also used a photo of the “Tribute in Lights” at Ground Zero  to criticize Giuliani, which is, of course, the appropriate time to address his fatal decision to locate a police command center in Ground Zero after earlier attempts to destroy the buildings had failed.
“The ‘Tribute in Lights’ shines on the skyline of lower Manhattan as the sixth anniversary of the attacks on the World Trade Center is observed in New York, September 11, 2007. A detailed 1998 New York Police Department analysis opposed the city’s plans to locate its emergency command center at the World Trade Center but then-mayor Rudolph Giuliani’s administration overrode the objections, The New York Times reported on Saturday.

This series of six photos perfectly illustrated how the media skew captions to drive home a specific message. In this case, Yahoo used photos of Ground Zero construction to make negative comments about the economy. The news agency started with different captions for each photo and then cut-and-pasted the same negative statement about the economy into each one.”