Fresh off of being caught trying to pass off unfired civilian ammunition as evidence of soldiers shooting into the home of an elderly Iraqi woman, the French news agency Agence France-Presse (AFP) has been caught once again in a photography scandal involving the U.S. military, this time misidentifying a U.S. military photo taken by a member of the 173rd Airborne in Afghanistan last month as one of their own. Full Story »
Posted by Kaizar Campwala
1) Not newsworthy 2) Apparently no attempt to contact BBC or AFP to ask about the provenance of the photo
The discussion after the story explains why there might be a discrepancy in the attribution of photos. In any case, this is not a major issue.
Another Gotch moment for the AFP. First the photograph of the bullets that supposedly hit an elderly woman's house in Iraq (unfired ammunition) and now outright plagiarism and attempted intellectual property theft. The ethical character of the newspaper business has not changed since Ben Franklin started printing.
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