The news fabrication in Time magazine

The story, or the big lie, is growing.  Time magazine must have felt that because I had difficulty finding the item on its site.  This will soon be embarrassing for a magazine that has a history of embarrassing moments.  But I read carefully the "interview" and what struck me is that it was not Arabic.  I can assert that it was written not from translation from Arabic but in original English.  Secondly, after reading the full text of the interview, it becomes clear that this is not a Hizbullah member, let alone a commander.  There is a bravado and bombast in the "interview" that makes it clear it is a fabrication or hoax.  Now I have read in the Lebanese press that Nicholas Blanford has distanced himself from the interview (which carries his byline) and now claims that another (unidentified) person conducted the interview.   Is that a friend of a friend who conducted the interview?  And notice that bizarre quality: how this internationally wanted man insisted on showing his interviewer two--TWO NOT ONE--Lebanese identification cards that he holds.  But this kind of propaganda ploy is not new at all in Hariri and Saudi media, which are very close to Blanford.  It was fun to see yesterday some of the most crude and vulgar propagandists for the House of Saud and House of Hariri, like Faris Khashshan, insist that Blanford is a professional journalist.  This is like Salam Fayyad insisting that Muhammad Dahlan has fine resistance credentials.  So Hariri and Saudi media since 2005 has a consistent propaganda ploy: they run (especially on Now Hariri and on the mouthpiece of Prince Salman and his sons, Ash-Sharq Al-Awsat) what they purport to be an interview with "someone close to Hizbullah" or a "leading source" in Hizbullah and then they proceed to attribute the most unbelievable and damning attribution, as in:  "A source close to Hizbullah tells Now Hariri: I admit it. We are terrorists and criminals, and we are agents of Iran.  Hariri has the best mind since Hegel.etc".  This is a joke and it is fun watching it reach Time magazine.  I told Arab readers on Facebook that it is high time that Arabs end their undeserved reference or respect for Western media.  For potato's sake, there are some in the Arab world who still think that Barbara Walters is a journalist.