CNN confuses N. Korea and Iran
Fine things are happening at CNN - their number two person resigns because of some bloggers and now this -- from
The Brad Blog:
bq.
CNN's Nuke Plant Photos Identical for Both Iran and N. Korea!
Who's the source for the photos?!
And are there any responsible corporate media outlets left in America?!
bq. Two stories posted in the last week on the CNN website, one on nukes in Iran last Wednesday, and another on nukes in North Korea on Saturday, both use the same aerial photograph of the same purported nuclear power plant!
bq. But one is supposed to be in Iran and the other is supposed to be in North Korea!
bq. A story posted Saturday to CNN's website suggesting that North Korea is rallying behind their leader Kim Jong Il in his latest nuclear saber-rattling makes use of a satellite photo described in the caption as "An aerial photo of North Korea's Yongbyon nuclear plant outside of Pyongyang".
Here are the two photographs in question:
Brad then goes on to list several updates that CNN made - slipstreaming another image for the N. Korea site, issuing a correction, Brad tries to call CNN but in 15 attempts, gets 15 different answering machines and the last entry so far is that another news service picked up the N. Korea story and is running it with the same image.
As he says -- developing...
Posted by DaveH at February 15, 2005 6:08 PM