philippines flood news
Posted in Philippines General Information on 05/03/2006 02:36 am by admin
Why does Yahoo News want to use irrelevant pictures for their news articles?
In a 1500 article about South Korean Investment in Afghanistan to preach Christianity, the picture with the article showed dozens of "Afghans" (they look more like Pakistanis or Indians) looking at a wrecked car in the scene of an accident. In another article about a typhoon that wreaked havoc in the Fujian province of China, photo showed many villagers wading through a flooded street and they are clearly not Chinese. It looked like a flood scenes from Indonesia or the Philippines.
I am not personally familiar with the issue you describe (I get my news the old-fashioned way, from the paper), but if I make an educated guess, I want to lay the blame on shoddy journalistic standards caused by rushing to meet deadlines. I currently in high school, and job a paper that is, unfortunately, not particularly good. I know that sometimes, when we are going hit the next day and can not find pictures, there a mad scramble to find something, anything, tangentially related so we do not have a big hole in our pages. For standard web news needs a picture, and I think that they provide a template for the post as well, I figure how they do the same. Also, if the news was posted just as it breaks, they can not have pictures available yet, and so decide to recycle old photos instead. For an exact answer, though, of course, want to contact Yahoo responsibility for the content.
