fuckthisshitagain

You are right I should have check the source as I was sent the image by a friend on my social media... I am definitely not trying to get anyone to follow my agenda, I was just interested in what other people had to say about the topic. As stated above I should have posted this in a different sub but as it seems to be bullshit I'm deleting the post.

I'm definitely not trolling, just interested in people's opinions, thanks for yours.

ciano

That's a stock photo. News outlets rarely get real photos to go with their stories, but somebody running all of these stories feels there's a compelling reason to include pictures when none are available. Using stock photos and videos in news is very common.

cinderblock

Poor journalistic integrity, yes. Conspiracy, no.

fuckthisshitagain

I didn't know where else to post. Sorry.

cinderblock

v/news , hell even v/funny would be more appropriate.

Not trying to be harsh, it's just that the majority of the stuff posted here isn't conspiratorial at all, it's just news.

TKCHBL

I see what's the picture tries to say, but it's kind of sad and ironic that none of the depicted pictures are from actual tv images, thus my downvoat.

taco

How can you tell? The first two look a bit more legit than the al Jazeera one, but I can't tell.

TKCHBL

screencap width. I don't know if you can read Cyrillic but on the english one, there's a line break after just two words. The bottom line is larger that the 'aljazeera' part, and have a title. In reality, it's a news ticker.

example

taco

Hm, I see that. shrug

definitelynotabot

If you get rid of the news branding at the bottom you'd probably still see the "shutterstock" watermark.

glugglug

LOL you're right!! Look closely at the bottom half of the right edge in all three pics, there was a watermark blurred out.

fuckthisshitagain

Seems like the viewers have to be the proof checkers these days. Most journalists seem to have blogger mentality.

1rash

That's what you get from a "free" news outlet.

modifieddevice

The truth is its an airplane toilet holding tank found by some janitor?

catchavirus

So which is correct? Or are they all wrong?

HitlerIsBlack

This is old, I remember seeing this in a combat video, it's from Ukraine, it was launched by "pro Russian rebels" against Ukraine. There were a few, very effective artillery attacks on Ukrainian forces during Autumn of 2014. If I find the video I will post it in /v/combatfootage and let you know.

look_mom_no_heads

Furthermore, attempting Google searches for the alleged "headlines" on the 3 images did not yield the original news articles which allegedly had their screenshots taken, but instead yielded the meme-image itself. This, coupled with the fact that all 3 of the images had exactly the same size, position and colour profile made the origin of the image extremely suspicious.

Ukrainian: Росія завдає удар

Russian: Россия 24 Украинские каратели обстреляли своих граждан

English: al jazeera "war on gaza" "israel launches airstrikes"

From this, we can infer that it is likely that the creator of this image faked the "headlines" for each of the images .

klongtoey

It's actually a Welsh bomb in Angola.

TrevorLahey

Those damned Cardiff bastards. This is how things get out of hand without Torchwood.

Granitosaurus

I think that is just place holder image that is not related to the news but is there just to cover screen time. Just so happens that all of them used the same one.

It's really surprising how much place holder bullshit there is on the current mainstream news.

Dashippy

The news has always been skewed/manipulated. Things like this are called out more because of social media, as you see here, so they've switched to doing more diversions now. They try to hide the news rather than lie about what it is.