Americans Buy Satellite Photos of Their Own Destroyed Houses

Families barred from going home are paying more than a hundred dollars an image to find out whether their houses are still standing. The pictures work. They show what happened, where it happened, and roughly when. They have never once shown why. And the why was stated on the record, by Israel's defense minister, in his own country's press, months before anyone paid for a picture. Nearly one hundred percent destruction in the border villages. It just came without an image, so almost nobody heard it. This episode goes to Yaroun, southern Lebanon, where a hundred and eighty of about two hundred houses are gone and some of the owners are American citizens. Then to a 1951 football film that two psychologists showed to students from both schools, and to the count that came back more than double depending on who was watching. A machine made the picture. A person chose the coordinates, the date, the resolution, and the crop. Every claim in this episode is traced to its source in the Episode Receipts, along with the Corrected Record for everything that moved after we filmed, including a correction to our own Outlook: [RECEIPTS URL PENDING] Sources include NPR, The Times of Israel, Israel Hayom, Middle East Eye, L'Orient Today, Reuters, and Hastorf and Cantril's 1954 study in the Journal of Abnormal and Social Psychology. Structure first. Pattern second. Conclusion yours.