http://bigjournalism.com/jdunetz/2010/07/01/uk-telegraph-tries-its-hand-at-anti-israel-fauxtography
"Last week the UK Daily Telegraph ran an article about the Gaza Blockade, this is how the article looked:
Does the picture look familiar? That’s because it is the same exact photograph from two years ago. This time the caption says:
The blockade prevents Gaza from exporting any goods, putting a crippling squeeze on the local economy, and restricts imports to a limited amount of basic humanitarian aid Photo: AP
There is the possibility the Telegraph used a two-year-old picture because they were just too lazy to find a new one. But, more likely is that the newspaper couldn’t find a new photograph because there is no humanitarian crisis in Gaza.
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After protests lead by the media watchdog site Honest Reporting, the Telegraph has changed the picture to:
Not to be prevented from telling the story without bias, they used a picture of a terrorist entering one of the tunnels Hamas uses to smuggle weapons across the Egyptian border but gives it a benign caption:
A Palestinian tunnel worker is lowered into one of the tunnels on the Egyptian border.
It seems every time one hole of bias is plugged, another leak of misinformation springs up.
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