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Ok, as reported on Monday, there was some sort of mix-up with "nuke plant" photos in Iran and North Korea. There were two stories on CNN about two nuke plants in two different countries, but the photo used was of the same plant!
CNN has still not posted any sort of retraction now that they've fixed the error, except for in a correction box, that "an image that was incorrectly identified..." However, apparently the story isn't closed yet!
Brad Blog reports today that the photo, supposedly of an Iranian plant as far as anyone can tell, has just been found on a story from March 2004 on an RFE/RL story on North Korean nukes. What's RFE/RL, you ask? It's a U.S. government funded European news agency! Their mission statement says the "corporate board of directors is composed of the nine Presidential appointees to the Broadcasting Board of Governors, which has oversight responsibility for all nonmilitary U.S. government-funded international broadcasting activities."
Shot of the RFE/RL story, courtesy BradBlog again:
More craziness is happening, though, because the filename of the photo used in the RFE/RL story is "Iraq-nuclear.jpg"!
Finally, BradBlog updates the story to tell us that the same photo also was used on Iraq stories at RFE/RL! While all North Korea and Iraq stories have now had the photo scrubbed from their web pages!
No telling what the truth is, but Brad got the following response from RFE/RL:"The photo in question was misidentified when our web editors first secured it in early 2004; months later (i.e. after the article you refer to below was posted) when they learned it was of an Iranian facility, they refrained from using it with any articles other than those linked to Iran. Unfortunately, that file (with "Iraq" in its file name, which is what you see when you mouse over the photo) has only just been replaced by one titled "iran-nuclear-satellite.jpg". We have gone through our website to make sure that this photo, with a properly descriptive name, accompanies only those articles where it is appropriate. Again, we regret any confusion that may have resulted from this mistake.
To my knowledge, our web editors got the photo file from a wire agency photo service, run by either AFP or the Czech news agency CTK. |
I guess we'll never figure out exactly what the hell is going on here, but it's all just too nuts.
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