http://www.theguardian.com/media/mediamonkeyblog/2013/sep/30/mail-on-sunday-kenya-photo
The article above focuses on how the newspaper The Mail on Sunday page 17 included a exclusive picture which was not true. The Mail on Sunday printed this picture conveying that it was from the Westgate shopping mall in Nairobi with an Al Shabaab gun man aiming to fire at hostages lying underneath the desk. However, the problem with this is the picture is it is in correct, as it was from a wrong shopping mall, city, country and continent. Providing further evidence that this picture was wrong is that on the 16th April 2010 the FBI presses released a CCTV picture of a bank robbery in Miramar Florida. Furthermore, The Mail on Sunday publishers stated that the picture was provided by a reliable Kenyan who received it alongside with genuine CCTV images from the mall. As a result, The Mail on Sunday newspaper stated that they are sorry for this misunderstanding and regret their publication to their readers.
Overall, this clearly conveys that readers must not always believe what newspapers provided them as some of the issues can be in correct or exaggerated in order to caused a moral panic. As a newspaper reader, I would be shocked by this issue as it would make me stop reading articles from The Mail on Sunday as they are not true.
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