Oops.
A bunch of TV stations and news Web sites across the US used the same Aaron Hernandez photo to illustrate the Patriots win last night that WCVB used on its Twitter feed.
In its apology last night, WCVB blamed an unspecified "news service" for making the mistake. All of the Hernandez-illustrated links we found this morning linked to an identical story that now has a generic playoff graphic supplied by Associated Press and ends with "The Associated Press contributed."
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Well...
By dmcboston
Mon, 01/22/2018 - 1:10pm
...so everyone stole it from a Susquehanna Valley station? Or are they all Hearst stations and distributed it to all?
Or... Lazy incompetent
By Anon
Tue, 01/23/2018 - 7:03am
Or... Lazy incompetent journalists are simply parroting news and not vetting the info. I can get that quality of information on twitter and reddit. (which is probably where the journalists get the majority of their "facts" anyway) We dont even need these other news sources anymore. Definitely don't need them if they're just going to auto repeat the same misinformation.
Except...
By An0n
Tue, 01/23/2018 - 12:56pm
...the facts of the story were correct. You read the words, right? Or are the pictures easier for you?
why bother
By Paul
Tue, 01/23/2018 - 10:48pm
yes, journalists whose photo editors make a mistake are lazy and incompetent, but anonymous internet trolls are hard-working and wise...
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