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.
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4 comments:

  1. Angry Exile29 May 2009 at 08:36

    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.

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  2. Mark Wadsworth29 May 2009 at 11:53

    And it's obviously not CCTV footage either.

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  3. Umbongo29 May 2009 at 15:15

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

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  4. JuliaM29 May 2009 at 16:45

    "...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?

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