Tuesday, September 03, 2013
BBC News uses 'Iraq photo to illustrate Syrian massacre' - Telegraph
Time and again, their sloppiness gets the facts (and images) wrong.
Sadly, their corrections, if any, are seen by only a few...
In the U.K. Telegraph, Hannah Furness calls attention to this occurence:
"'What I am really astonished by is that a news organization like the BBC doesn't check the sources and it's willing to publish any picture sent it by anyone: activist, citizen journalist or whatever. That's all. He added he was less concerned about an apology or the use of image without consent, adding: 'What is amazing it's that a news organization has a picture proving a massacre that happened yesterday in Syria and instead it's a picture that was taken in 2003 of a totally different massacre. 'Someone is using someone else's picture for propaganda on purpose.' "
