This from MediaGuardian.co.uk: (google this for many more sources).
Looks like Reuters has admitted, once again, to using bogus images in a story. This time they were busted by a 13 year old boy from Finland who noticed something fishy about their coverage of Russian submersibles exploring the sea under the North Pole.
Seems the images they used were actually of two Finnish made submersibles filming bits of the Titanic years ago. I guess they didn’t have any actual pictures and just decided no one would know and it wouldn’t matter. Guess what? It’s getting pretty tough to cheat on the truth with millions of volunteer fact checkers with time on their hands (Way to go kid!).
Why does this matter? Considering this isn’t the first time Reuters has been caught like this, (see the amp’d up photos of damage done by the Israeli military in Lebanon) it goes to show the level of editorial integrity Reuters can be counted on to maintain.
In both of these cases, Reuters was reporting truthful events, they just didn’t have, or were not satisfied with the visuals they had to offer. So, out comes PhotoShop or stock photos to pump up the volume.
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