Daily Telegraph mock up of Mike Carlton as ‘Palestinian’ fleeing Gaza attack was originally image of Boston bombing victim
The image onto which The Daily Telegraph photoshopped the face of Mike Carlton along with a headscarf to make it look like a Palestinian man fleeing the bombing in Gaza was actually a photo of a Boston bombing victim, it has emerged.
The body for the image, which is being circulated on social media and shows a man with torn clothes, appears to have originally been sourced from an AP image featuring victim James Costello staggering away from the aftermath of the attack in the US in May 2013.
The Sydney tabloid had used it as part of extensive coverage of Carlton’s resignation from Fairfax after the commentator sent abusive tweets and emails to readers.
The image was first tweeted by the anonymous anti News Corp twitter account @TheMurdochTimes who was among a number of online users who then condemned the use of the picture. Comment is being sought from News Corp Australia and the Daily Telegraph.
At the time of the Boston Bombing an AP image taken by photographer Kenshin Okubo of James Costello who was severely burned on his right arm and leg in the attack was one of the most used images of the attack. Costello’s story and his decision to marry one of his nurses Krista D’Agostino gained wide traction in the US media.
Mike Carlton’s resignation from Fairfax has been one of the biggest media stories of the week after he resigned from Fairfax after being chastised by the Sydney Morning Herald’s editor-in-chief Darren Goodsir and then told by Goodsir’s boss Sean Aylmer that he would be suspended.
Carlton’s resignation came just a day after Fairfax issue an apology for a cartoon used to illustrate a Carlton column condemning Israel’s shelling of Gaza.
In the wake of the media storm the Daily Telegraph created two photoshopped images featuring Carlton including this mock up front page which showed Carlton as a Palestinian fleeing bombing in Gaza.
News Corp has been asked for comment on the decision to use the famous image and why it was presented as a Palestinian, with the addition of a headscarf, and in the context of the conflict in Gaza.
Link: Daily Tele editor offers “unreserved” apology
Nic Christensen
*Update This article originally credited Twitter user Bill Walters with spotting the source of the photo. Walters has since clarified that it was not him but @The MurdochTimes which revealed the similarity of the images.
I wonder if this will get a run in the USA?
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Nice write up Nic.
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this is just plain wrong in so many ways…i wonder if anyone at news corp has a moral compass…
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News Corp are a pack of hypocrites. That is all.
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Just like the LNP they cheer for, they just have to take a win and crap squarely on top of it.
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Is the Daily Tele a credible publication with moral standards? #nosuprises.
Short of flipping to Sydney confidential to see a photo of rhianna with her boobs out or some bogun from (insert reality TV show) get a parking fine, the daily Tele has as much relevance as rocking horse shit
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As if there were not enough reasons not to buy the Daily Telegraph already.
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“We’re even more cynical about the media than we were 12 months ago. And The Daily Telegraph has extended its “lead” as Australia’s least-trusted major newspaper.”
Quelle surprise.
http://www.crikey.com.au/2013/.....kes-a-hit/
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No one with half a brain would buy that LNP propaganda rag very rarely tells the truth about anything always goes out of it’s way to stir up emotions in the public to help gain more votes for a failing gov
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I use the daily telegraph to line the bottom of my guinea pig cage. It’s the only thing it’s good for. I get it for free from my local Maccas.
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I hope Mike Carlton has briefed his lawyers and will commence a defamation claim against the Tele with a big fat settlement. The Tele’s front page was outrageous.
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Call me crazy but the head scarf photoshopped onto the Boston bombing victim’s head looks like it has been taken from a stock shot of Yasser Arafat – which probably makes it ‘nearly true’ and ‘kind of okay’ in the mind of the Daily Tele’s editor.
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…..yawn……..people don’t care about conflict inside SMH anyway……..oh but you guys at the tele do care so everyone must right? – at the end of the day the guys at the Tele wish they were Mike…….
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Defeat from the jaws of victory.
Dickheads.
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The Daily Telegraph, ‘the keeper of editorial standards’ – I think not!
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Just another reason the Daily Telegraph should be burnt to the ground and forgotten about forever. It’s gone from being a joke to being poisonous.
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Maybe someone should ring round some of Fairfax’s advertisers and determine whether Carlton’s chastisement and threatened suspension was actually about his “response to criticism” or in fact the political leanings of some of Fairfax’s biggest advertisers.
Fingers crossed he gets picked up again soon (Guardian?) or there will be literally nothing to read in bed on a Saturday morning any more.
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@JD I’m surprised any self respecting guinea pig would shit on the Daily Terror, I always thought they looked for a clean spot.
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What better example of News Corps lack of moral and ethical compass and absolute indifference to the humanitarian crisis in Gaza. What shameless scum they are.
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No wonder their newspaper financial results released today are a disaster.
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Normally SMH couldn’t buy advertising in News Corp publications
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If any of you know the editor of the Tele, you will know that “cartoon” is not his style in any way at all.
You can be assured he was as disgusted as you were when he saw the offending piece. In addition, he would have been mortified that it got through the system.
It is clear none of you understand publishing a newspaper each day is a huge task. In fact, one could reasonably call each paper “The Daily Miracle”.
Try it some time and see if you can get so much right and so little wrong day after day after day. In the meantime, some mature and sensible comments would not go astray.
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I was able to catch the Monty Python reunion show at Quay Theatre last night.
Not even the most absurd, ridiculous, extremely silly Python skit would ever come close to this nonsense – does anyone at the Daily Terror have a brain at all?
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Yes, this is the thing that will convince advertisers to come back to the rag that is the Tele. This shining example of journa- nope. not going to finish that.
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The Murdoch flock clowns have done it again. I can imagine them all at church this Sunday angrily snarling to one another about further revenge attempts. Awful publication, awful organisation.
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@ Bob: I don’t buy your defence of the Tele’s editor for one second. Under his editorship over the last 3 years, the Tele has become an extreme partisan comic spouting progaganda on a daily basis. Not to mention the bullying. And the weird never-ending Clover Moore bashing obsession. It’s an editorial style that should not be welcome in this country, and does nothing to further healthy debate.
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Typical of the distasteful reporting of the Telegraph. I am inclined to cancel my SMH subscription because Mike Carlton’s column is no more.
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I’m sure I am not the first to point this out but surely:
Carlton’s resignation only serves to prove the accuracy of the column: that it’s next to impossible for anyone to criticise the Israelis for what they’re up to in Gaza and elsewhere.
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It’s pretty funny in its sick way. Whittaker and his drones devote far more time and energy to bucketing Carlton and the SMH than the Tele’s readers could possibly care about then proceed to shoot off it’s collective foot with an error of judge to rival that of the cartoon published with Carlton’s column. The difference is the SMH should know better. The Tele crew are too crass and clueless to know better.
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@ bob – I call bullshit.
His tenure has seen the comic go from tabloid dross to completely irrelevant tea party screaming. He’s just another of Rupert’s brain dead mouth breathers, just like the remaining unhinged readership of theirs.
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