Friday 29 May 2009

'Telegraph' Photo Editor Motto: "Meh! Close Enough..."

The 'Telegraph' has a story today about a goshawk chick being blown out of it's nest by a gust of wind, caught on a birdwatch CCTV.

They chose to illustrate this story on their front page with a picture of....


....a peregrine falcon!

*sigh* Time to add a new tag. I'm obviously going to need it.

4 comments:

Angry Exile said...

Give 'em a break. It was an African elephant when I looked a few hours ago ;-) I was going to give them a little leeway for the birds looking vaguely similar apart from size, which can be tricky in a photo, but then I noticed that the lazy twats got the image from the RSPB page they linked to in the article, and the the filename is "pegnest300_tcm9-140599.jpg". Doesn't sound very goshawk-y, does it? Silly bastards probably assumed that because it was on the same page as the goshawk video it was a photo of a goshawk. You were right. They're shitehouse at photo selection at The Telegraph.

Mark Wadsworth said...

And it's obviously not CCTV footage either.

Umbongo said...

As the Telegraph lurches leftward it seeks to emulate its nearest rival - the Grauniad.

JuliaM said...

"...then I noticed that the lazy twats got the image from the RSPB page they linked to in the article, and the the filename is "pegnest300_tcm9-140599.jpg"."

Good grief, that's even worse then! I was assuming they let some YTS trainee wander through the photo archives...

"And it's obviously not CCTV footage either."

I guess they couldn't be bothered to just take a screengrab from the video footage.

"As the Telegraph lurches leftward it seeks to emulate its nearest rival - the Grauniad."

It does seem to be going downhill quite rapidly, doesn't it?