Lxxx Posted May 28, 2012 Share Posted May 28, 2012 Yet another example of everyone's favourite propaganda machine showing it's incompetence. http://www.independe...re-3120174.html An innocent mistake or selective programming to coincide with government policy? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GD4ELI Posted May 28, 2012 Share Posted May 28, 2012 Read the story. It was a mistake, probably made by a stressed-out employee. It was not the whole BBC, just one person. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lxxx Posted May 28, 2012 Author Share Posted May 28, 2012 For such an important topic this was lazy journalism at it's finest. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
woolley Posted May 28, 2012 Share Posted May 28, 2012 Stressed out at the BBC???????????? Priceless! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
prism10 Posted May 28, 2012 Share Posted May 28, 2012 Bad journalism. There was a lot of it around in the run up to the Iraq war as well! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lxxx Posted May 28, 2012 Author Share Posted May 28, 2012 Bad journalism. There was a lot of it around in the run up to the Iraq war as well! It's all just a little bit of history repeating.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
censorship Posted May 28, 2012 Share Posted May 28, 2012 Horse shit. There was a massacre, this picture was doing the rounds on the net as being evidence of the massacre, the BBC used it with a disclaimer and tried to verify. Millions of news photos are submitted to the BBC every year, is every person expected to remember every photo ever taken? Given the extent to which the picture was being used on the net in association with the syria massacre it was fair to assume it was connected, but, responsibily, the BBC made it clear it couldn't verify and removed once it was discounted. If it was so obvious this picture was wrong, why did the Independent need the photographer to come forward and tell them, why didn't they just know? Personally, I would be more concerned if the BBC had chosen not to try and give maximum coverage to this story. I would rather occasional mistakes are made in shining a light on these dark acts than they are covered up because journalists are scared of pushing the limits and sometimes getting it wrong. As a result of this BBC mistake no one died, no one lost out (except the murderng filth ruling Syria). A photographer probably makes some money and one of the greatest horrors happening on earth today gets increased exposure. As a result of the west's refusal to take decisive action in Syria thousands are dying. I know actually deserves a discussion thread. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pongo Posted May 28, 2012 Share Posted May 28, 2012 “Efforts were made overnight to track down the original source of the image and when it was established the picture was inaccurate we removed it immediately.” They obviously did not check very hard since the image should have been well known to anyone on the picture desk and since, anyhow, the image is trivial to trace even without knowing its original source. And given the obvious sensitivity of such an image if there had been any doubt then they could have called in a second opinion - either internally or at any of the agencies. It would instantly have been recognised. What this points to (at least) is the increasing over - dependence of the media on unaccredited and often unverified sources. So eg you get these ridiculous situations where 24 hour news is reporting what someone unknown is saying on Twitter - and this is shaping what people believe. The respectable media was always about verifiying the source and preferably getting corroboration. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lxxx Posted May 28, 2012 Author Share Posted May 28, 2012 Horse shit. There was a massacre, this picture was doing the rounds on the net as being evidence of the massacre, the BBC used it with a disclaimer and tried to verify. Millions of news photos are submitted to the BBC every year, is every person expected to remember every photo ever taken? Given the extent to which the picture was being used on the net in association with the syria massacre it was fair to assume it was connected, but, responsibily, the BBC made it clear it couldn't verify and removed once it was discounted. If it was so obvious this picture was wrong, why did the Independent need the photographer to come forward and tell them, why didn't they just know? Personally, I would be more concerned if the BBC had chosen not to try and give maximum coverage to this story. I would rather occasional mistakes are made in shining a light on these dark acts than they are covered up because journalists are scared of pushing the limits and sometimes getting it wrong. As a result of this BBC mistake no one died, no one lost out (except the murderng filth ruling Syria). A photographer probably makes some money and one of the greatest horrors happening on earth today gets increased exposure. As a result of the west's refusal to take decisive action in Syria thousands are dying. I know actually deserves a discussion thread. The BBC also used the wrong 'LIVE' footage last year in saying that rebel forces were celebrating their victory over Ghaddafi in Green Square, when in fact it was footage in India and the flags being waved were clearly Indian flags. They even claimed to have spoken to the journalist there who sent them the pictures! This sloppy journalism from over-stressed employee's is spreading rapidly. [media=] [/media] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
P.K. Posted May 28, 2012 Share Posted May 28, 2012 The BBC also used the wrong 'LIVE' footage last year in saying that rebel forces were celebrating their victory over Ghaddafi in Green Square, when in fact it was footage in India and the flags being waved were clearly Indian flags. They even claimed to have spoken to the journalist there who sent them the pictures! This sloppy journalism from over-stressed employee's is spreading rapidly. This is clearly going to comer as a major shock to you Lxxx but guess what? Organisations like Aunty Beeb are run by people. People make mistakes. Always have, always will. Claiming they should never get it wrong is simply not living in the real world. Oh, how silly of me.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tameelf Posted May 28, 2012 Share Posted May 28, 2012 biggest mistake was reporting building 7 demolition 25 mins before the event Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lxxx Posted May 28, 2012 Author Share Posted May 28, 2012 biggest mistake was reporting building 7 demolition 25 mins before the event That was just another mistake obviously.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MilitantDogOwner Posted May 29, 2012 Share Posted May 29, 2012 biggest mistake was reporting building 7 demolition 25 mins before the event That was just another mistake obviously.... And why not? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
P.K. Posted May 29, 2012 Share Posted May 29, 2012 Because then the conspiracy theory nutters wouldn't have anything to fester away in their tiny little minds, that's why not.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ballaughbiker Posted May 29, 2012 Share Posted May 29, 2012 Reading some of these posts on here you might be led to believe that the BBC was the only news source available and that we were being manipulated by some pravda like propaganda. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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