With your support we continue to ensure media accuracy

Misleading, Mismatched Photos Miss Mark

UPDATE 2/3: The Scotsman replaced its photo. While Israeli jets were on target hitting a Syrian arms convoy, The Scotsman and Daily Telegraph badly missed the mark with their choice of photos. The Irish Independent…

Pesach Benson
January 31, 2013
12:00 am

Reading time: < 1 minutes

UPDATE 2/3: The Scotsman replaced its photo.

While Israeli jets were on target hitting a Syrian arms convoy, The Scotsman and Daily Telegraph badly missed the mark with their choice of photos. The Irish Independent also flunked.

If I didn’t know any better, I’d think those nasty Israelis killed the kids.

With all the resources available to these papers — file photos, maps, graphic artists — these images were the best they could do with?

▶ A Picture May Speak 1,000 Words—but What if Those Words Are Lies?

Israel at War: The Media Battlefield – Briefing #46

Media Celebrate Images by Photographers With Unethical Ties to Hamas

▶ The Merneptah Stele – History in Stone!

▶ Syrian Druze to Israel: “Take Us In”

Tags: Daily Telegraph, images, Irish Independent, photo bias, Syria, The Scotsman

Pesach Benson

A Baltimore native, Pesach was with HonestReporting from 2011 to 2020. He edited the Israel Daily News Stream and authored the e-book, Red Lines: HonestReporting’s 8 Categories of Media Bias. Before moving to Israel in 1995, he worked as a reporter for the Baltimore Jewish Times. Pesach has a B.A. in political science from the University of Maryland-Baltimore County, where he was executive editor of the campus newspaper.

HonestReporting is a USA non-profit 501(c)(3) charitable organization as recognized by the Internal Revenue Service (IRS).

Tax ID# 06-1611859. Your generous tax-deductible donations make a real difference.