Photoshopped marathon pictures fool Sky News website
April 15th, 2008Posted by Laura Oliver in Citizen journalism
Journalism student Todd Nash’s new blog Journalism Today has flagged up some pictures from Sunday’s London Marathon sent to Sky News’ Your Photos section.
Only not every picture here tells the true story, rather the pics have been photoshopped and submitted by forum members of website Football365.com.
Some of the pictures are still available, including this appearance by the grim reaper:
And another submitted by A. Lurker (clue: look closely at his vest):
The news site are likely to take the joke well: following an earthquake in the UK in February the site received so many spoof photos of quake damage, it created a separate archive for them.
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