Big Media Photo Editors Apparently Willing To Believe Anything
Something here doesn’t quite add up:
An elderly Iraqi woman shows two bullets which she says hit her house following an early coalition forces raid in the predominantly Shiite Baghdad suburb of Sadr City. At least 175 people were slaughtered on Tuesday and more than 200 wounded when four suicide truck bombs targeted people from an ancient religious sect in northern Iraq, officials said.(AFP/Wissam al-Okaili)
For those of you not familiar with how bullets work (and I can’t imagine that’s many of you), a spent bullet is missing the tip. There’s no way those bullets were fired at this lady’s home. Someone is lying, and someone else is an ignorant sap for believing the liar.
I just sent an email to AFP to figure out who wrote that caption and how such an egregious error could make it through their editorial filters. I’ll post any response I get.
Update: According to Blackfive, this isn’t the first time this photographer, Wissam al-Okaili, has pulled this stunt.
My question is, why do these obviously staged photos and erroneous captions keep getting through?
