{"id":121333,"date":"2012-05-28T01:49:10","date_gmt":"2012-05-28T01:49:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chrisroubis.com\/2012\/05\/bbc-news-uses-iraq-photo-to-illustrate-syrian-massacre\/"},"modified":"2012-05-28T01:49:10","modified_gmt":"2012-05-28T01:49:10","slug":"bbc-news-uses-iraq-photo-to-illustrate-syrian-massacre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jewworldorder.org\/bbc-news-uses-iraq-photo-to-illustrate-syrian-massacre\/","title":{"rendered":"BBC News uses &#8216;Iraq photo to illustrate Syrian massacre&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>\nMr di Lauro, a professional photographer, said: \u201cI went home at 3am and I<br \/>\n  opened the BBC page which had a front page story about what happened in<br \/>\n  Syria and I almost felt of from my chair.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\u201cOne of my pictures from Iraq was used by the BBC web site as a front page<br \/>\n  illustration claiming that those were the bodies of yesterday&#8217;s massacre in<br \/>\n  Syria and that the picture was sent by an activist.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\u201cInstead the picture was taken by me and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.marcodilauro.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">it&#8217;s<br \/>\n  on my web site<\/a>, on the feature section regarding a story I did In Iraq<br \/>\n  during the war called Iraq, the aftermath of Saddam.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\u201cWhat I am really astonished by is that a news organization like the BBC<br \/>\n  doesn&#8217;t check the sources and it&#8217;s willing to publish any picture sent it by<br \/>\n  anyone activist, citizen journalist or whatever. That&#8217;s all.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nHe added he was less concerned about an apology or the use of image without<br \/>\n  consent, adding: \u201cWhat is amazing it&#8217;s that a news organization has a<br \/>\n  picture proving a massacre that happen yesterday in Syria and instead it&#8217;s a<br \/>\n  picture that was taken in 2003 of a totally different massacre.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\u201cSomeone is using someone else picture for propaganda on purpose.\u201d\n<\/p>\n<p>\nA spokesman for the BBC said: \u201cWe were aware of this image being widely<br \/>\n  circulated on the internet in the early hours of this morning following the<br \/>\n  most recent atrocities in Syria.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\u201cWe used it with a clear disclaimer saying it could not be independently<br \/>\n  verified.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\u201cEfforts were made overnight to track down the original source of the image<br \/>\n  and when it was established the picture was inaccurate we removed it<br \/>\n  immediately.\u201d<\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>Views: 0<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mr di Lauro, a professional photographer, said: \u201cI went home at 3am and I opened the BBC page which had a front page story about what happened in Syria and I almost felt of from my chair. \u201cOne of my pictures from Iraq was used by the BBC web site as a front page illustration [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1721],"tags":[14483,1722],"class_list":["post-121333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world-news","tag-jewish-lies","tag-world-news-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jewworldorder.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121333","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jewworldorder.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jewworldorder.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewworldorder.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewworldorder.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121333"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewworldorder.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121333\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jewworldorder.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewworldorder.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewworldorder.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}