View Full Version : Do the BBC do this to wind people up?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/highlands_and_islands/7305266.stm
..... or are the people in charge of facts on an early Easter break?
I refer to the photo!
Flying Serpent
19th Mar 2008, 22:04
and the problem with the photo is?
Nat O'Thee
19th Mar 2008, 22:06
Nice one.
I am guessing they know no better.
Beatriz Fontana
19th Mar 2008, 22:10
Written in haste from a press release before going to the pub... probably...
Nat O'Thee
19th Mar 2008, 22:10
It is, but one would expect them to at least use the correct one?
Or maybe there is a renewed threat and the fighter force need deploy?
Captain Kirk
19th Mar 2008, 22:30
You’re probably right FL Mac – why should we expect the BBC to get the detail right? Any old picture will do. In fact, it wouldn’t matter if they made errors in the story too. Professional pride? Obviously not important.
Sadly, I fear there are substantial numbers within the RAF who would not recognise the error either! You get it though don’t you Mac…don’t you?
Pure Pursuit
19th Mar 2008, 22:33
wow, a full 2 month tour for each sqn...
I bet the Harrier lads are in complete awe.
I'm sorry but, I fail to see how this is big news.
Whirlygig
19th Mar 2008, 22:37
Young editorial assistant is told to find photo of a Tornado. YEA (for it is he/she) uses Goo-goo images and picks a good picture. If the referencing to the picture is wrong, then how is your average journalist trainee meant to know.
Gee what do you guys expect? Expertise and specialist knowledge in the BBC (or any form of the media for that matter?). On the salaries they pay, you'd be lucky!!
Cheers
Whirls
N Joe
19th Mar 2008, 22:40
If you want a real problem, commission an artist to paint an F3 sqn pic, let him use a GR pic as a template and then re-paint it in the sqn colours. Odds of recouping the sqn fund's outlay with the sale of prints? About 111 to one!
N Joe
insty66
19th Mar 2008, 23:17
wow, a full 2 month tour for each sqn...
I bet the Harrier lads are in complete awe.
I'm sorry but, I fail to see how this is big news.
I think it's just a bit of positive press coverage that only "us in the know" and the "spotters" will notice the mistake included.
You're right though, it's not new news, Tornado Sqns have been rotating through the Gulf since '91. There was even a variety of locations you could go to: Dhahran, Al Kharj, Ali Al Salem, or if you dropped on, Incirlik and now of course Al Udied.
Most of the Tornado force are looking forward to spreading their wings even further soon:hmm:
So I'd guess they're not worried about what someone else thinks of their tour durations.
Back on track, at least it was a Tornado, of sorts.
cargosales
20th Mar 2008, 01:30
Young editorial assistant is told to find photo of a Tornado. YEA (for it is he/she) uses Goo-goo images and picks a good picture. If the referencing to the picture is wrong, then how is your average journalist trainee meant to know.
Gee what do you guys expect? Expertise and specialist knowledge in the BBC (or any form of the media for that matter?). On the salaries they pay, you'd be lucky!!
Cheers
Whirls
Whirls has it spot on.
It's a bit of a non-story really so was almost certainly given to the office junior, with the instruction "picture Tornado FREE find". They do a quick Google and come up with a free and suitably captioned 'Tornado' picture.
The pedants on here will complain as always but does it really make any difference to the underlying story?
Rakshasa
20th Mar 2008, 02:27
At least it was a Tornado. A Jag really would have been embarrasing. :E
ARINC
20th Mar 2008, 02:59
A Jag really would have been embarrasing.
and more effective
Lossie23
20th Mar 2008, 05:22
In this case it was harder to get the pic wrong than right. The Lossie MCO had the good sense to send out a couple of photos of GR.4s as attachments with the press release e-mail. All they had to do was use one of the photos with the press release.
BEagle
20th Mar 2008, 08:17
Maybe Swiss Des could combine both his part time jobs and ensure that news articles involving both defence and Jockistani elements are correctly reported?
The BBC should have known better!
barnstormer1968
20th Mar 2008, 08:38
At least it's a pic of an aircraft. It could have been a photo of a swirling wind phenomenon.
Barnstormer1968:}
Mad_Mark
20th Mar 2008, 08:45
And there was I thinking that the initial gripe was about the content of the article :rolleyes:
Three Tornado squadrons from RAF Lossiemouth are to deploy to Iraq
The only time I have seen a Tornado on the ground in Iraq was when they div'd in with some sort of problem. Never seen any sqns actually "deployed" there yet :ouch:
And as pointed out by several, they have been deployed to the Gulf region for years. Although I would not call this a non-story, if it highlights to Joe Public the part the RAF is playing in ops out east. I am surprised though that the BBC did not refer to the RAF servicemen and women as squadies for once :D
MadMark!!! :mad:
harrogate
20th Mar 2008, 09:06
It's still far better than the standard of Defence reporting in the Guardian (http://www.pornolize.com/pornolize4?lang=en&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.guardian.co.uk%2Fuk%2F2008%2Fmar%2F10%2 Fmilitary.afghanistan&submit=Translate)
A lot of it doesn't even make sense.
Gainesy
20th Mar 2008, 09:23
A lot of it doesn't even make sense.
I think you'll find that's House Style for the Grauniad.
Harrogate,
Check your linky old boy! www.por n olize.... does not get through the Defence Net Filiters;)
MATZ
SRENNAPS
20th Mar 2008, 19:12
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/edinburgh_and_east/7305469.stm
I was just wondering if this was an accurate picture as I am not an expert on this subject.
I would be truly devastated if the BBC had made a dreadfull mistake and I was to find out that these were not Japanese quail.
Sorry:rolleyes::rolleyes:
nomorethanbablue
20th Mar 2008, 19:44
The picture has been fixed.
You never know who is reading Pprune.
BABlue
hotshots!
21st Mar 2008, 06:32
Hang on - what is wrong with the original picture?
D O Guerrero
21st Mar 2008, 10:05
What's wrong with it? I may only be an ex-RN type... But it looks like a tornado of the GR4 mud-moving variety rather than the other sort to me! I know it's grey, but aren't most of them these days?
I'm ready to be put right!
D O G
Hoots
21st Mar 2008, 10:36
at least the got the right aircraft and it is the bbc after all. The RAF News can't even get the correct model of Nimrod for its press articles. You would think they would know the difference between R1 and MR2.
harrogate
21st Mar 2008, 12:47
What's wrong with it? I may only be an ex-RN type... But it looks like a tornado of the GR4 mud-moving variety rather than the other sort to me! I know it's grey, but aren't most of them these days?
I'm ready to be put right!
D O G
Cheeky little monkeys have changed it, haven't they.
They're generally pretty good out correcting picture issues if pointed out, but some still slip through the net...
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/cambridgeshire/7282943.stm (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v315/harrogate/bbcnooooows-1.jpg)