How Does SABC News Explain This Recycled Photo?

Question: You're an editor looking to illustrate an article about Israeli efforts to curb the arrival of African migrants. With…

Question: You’re an editor looking to illustrate an article about Israeli efforts to curb the arrival of African migrants. With a wide pool of current and archived wire photos available, which of the following images would you choose?

A) African migrants in Israel.

B) Israeli police looking for African migrants.

C) Israelis protesting for African migrants.

D) Indonesians protesting the Mavi Marmara raid in 2010.

Care to guess what the South Africa’s SABC News selected?

How does the SABC explain this?

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.

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