{"id":49606,"date":"2012-05-28T17:18:45","date_gmt":"2012-05-28T17:18:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=49606"},"modified":"2012-06-24T05:49:09","modified_gmt":"2012-06-24T05:49:09","slug":"bbc-caught-passing-off-old-photos-from-iraq-as-being-of-syrian-massacre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=49606","title":{"rendered":"BBC Caught Passing Off Old Photos From Iraq as Being of Syrian Massacre"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\">Syria Massacre Condemned As Outrage Grows<\/h1>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">BBC Online \u2013 May 27, 2012<\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/BBC-fake-photo.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-49607\" title=\"BBC screen shot. Click to enlarge.\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/BBC-fake-photo-1024x629.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"629\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/BBC-fake-photo-1024x629.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/BBC-fake-photo-300x184.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/BBC-fake-photo.jpg 1984w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h5 style=\"text-align: left;\">The photo used above is real enough, only it wasn&#8217;t taken in Syria on Sunday but in Iraq in 2003. Once the photographer who took the original pointed this out the BBC removed the offending photo\u00a0but without any explanation or apology. So if the BBC is prepared to use photos from Iraq in 2003 and claim they were taken in Syria yesterday,\u00a0what else in the above story has been contrived?<\/h5>\n<h5 style=\"text-align: left;\">The story <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-middle-east-18224559\"><span style=\"color: #ffff99;\">remains on\u00a0BBC Online<\/span><\/a>, minus the photograph in question, and without any reference to\u00a0 its earlier featuring a photo taken in Iraq in 2003.<\/h5>\n<h5 style=\"text-align: left;\">This is what BBC licence fees pay for: contrived reports and outright lies. Ed.\u00a0\u00a0<\/h5>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The BBC is it again. Using a photo from Iraq in 2003 and claiming it was of the Houla massacre. Once the photographer who took the original shot cries foul it\u2019s removed. But not before a screen shot is saved <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[19,42,28,83],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-Behind_The_News","category-controlling-the-news-andor-the-free-exchange-of-ideas-and-information","category-Iraq","category-syria"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49606","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=49606"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49606\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51159,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49606\/revisions\/51159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}