Friday 19 April 2013

Star illustrates new story with photo from 2008

The front page of today's Daily Star includes a dramatic photo of an explosion in Texas:


As Scott Bryan points out, the same photo is prominent on pages 8-9, illustrating their double page spread.

The Star is reporting on the explosion yesterday at a fertiliser plant in West, Texas.

Unfortunately, the photo the Star uses is from an explosion at an oil refinery in Big Spring, (west) Texas in 2008.

(Big hat-tip to Scott Bryan)

4 comments:

  1. Is it true that the Sun published a photo which was stated (or strongly implied) as being of the Thatcher funeral crowds, when it actually wasn't?

    From what I have heard, it was actually a picture Jubilee and the giveaway is the Shard in the background, clearly still under construction!

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    1. No, it's not true. The building in question wasn't the Shard.

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  2. What on earth is nuclear about it anyway?

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    1. Absolutely nothing. Presumably that's why they deployed the magic quotes of untruthfulness.

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