BBC News uses 'Iraq photo to illustrate Syrian massacre'

[RichyBoy]

Imagine if we didn't have the internet, they'd get away with this kind of thing:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleea...

[martin84]

I doubt it was on purpose. Most of the Syria related news is nearly impossible to verify because they cant get in to the place, so they take what they're given. The BBC clearly failed to check its sources properly before publishing it though.

[hornet]

I'd lean towards incompetence rather than malice, but it's still pretty shoddy. I'd have thought running images through a reverse image search like Tineye would be the first thing to do in this sort of situation?

[Tycho]

They really don't check do they?

Another one

[anonymous-user]

Tycho said:

They really don't check do they?

Another one

Now that one's funny

[rohrl]

I liked the one when ITV claimed that they had footage of the IRA when in fact they had footage from a video game.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-16677...

[Tycho]

rohrl said:

I liked the one when ITV claimed that they had footage of the IRA when in fact they had footage from a video game.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-16677...

Linky to the video

[MX7]

hornet said:

I'd lean towards incompetence rather than malice

Agree. The BBC really let themselves slip sometimes. They are very shoddy sometimes.

[Shaw Tarse]

Reminds me of Globelink News!
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[eccles]

Shaw Tarse said:

Reminds me of Globelink News!
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I think of that every time we see a disaster on the news!

[dave stew]

That's what did Piers Morgan in wasn't it? Shoddy so called army pictures of torture.

Where is he now?