Posted by
Dave Perkins on Wednesday, November 12, 2008 10:31:50 PM
The ABC, Australian Broadcasting Corporation, is not like the American version of ABC. It's more like the BBC, a state sponsored media network. It's not just TV and radio, though; now they have blogs.
And
this blog of theirs has run a story about the Indian Prime Minister, a girl without a prom date, until finally President-Elect Obama got around to reassuring him by telephone that their relationship was very important.
Small problem-- the photograph accompanying the story is a pic of Obama sitting on a chair in a trashed out campaign room, one worker barely visible sitting on the floor at frame's edge, the clock on the wall reading three o'clock exactly (
presumably AM, as the room is deserted with lights on), and the TELEPHONE OBAMA IS HOLDING IS UPSIDE DOWN.
I don't know if he posed for this as a joke, or if it's photoshopped... but it is definitely NOT a pic of Obama speaking to the Indian prime minister.
The ABC hasn't noticed, and the pic is still attached to the story. I'll wager it's gone by tomorrow, but try the link anyway for your own amusement.
Thanks as always to our Aussie guiding light, the one and only Tim Blair,
now blogging at the Telegraph. As Tim says, the media is finding its own level, and sinking fast to do it.