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[webofevil]

Many people have noted that eight UK newspapers ran with the exact same image of a protester kicking in a Tory window yesterday, with the Guardian standing out from the herd by running with a different photo of the same incident. Political Scrapbook collated them:

It's instructive, however, to see a wide shot of this spontaneous scene unfolding:

/via @bengoldacre

Comments

[andrewducker]

That image doesn't support hotlinking.

Visitable here:
http://img6.glowfoto.com/images/2010/11/11-0534039401L.jpg

[zagreb2.livejournal.com]

I had to go to Goldacre's twitter feed to see the pic, since those links weren't working.

Unsurprising, really: the media homing-in on an act of violence and treating it like a circus before going home to help turn it into "outraged" front pages, and the "anarchist" looking like nothing so much as someone showing off for the cameras.

[therealjo.livejournal.com]

I just saw this on BG's twitter. I actually find it much more sinister than the one they all printed - all of the newspapers complicit in manipulating the truth, thank god for the internet.