Inappropriate Use Of A Stock Photo OTD

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[nelladarren.livejournal.com]

Wow, fast rebuilt. Someone was a busy little beaver!

[jesseh.livejournal.com]

I randomly came across your journal (friend's friend's friends...don't ask), but it is a new photo -- those are the new AOL Time Warner building going up at Columbus Circle.

[johno.livejournal.com]

If it is a stock photo, then the caption lies.

It implies that that the photo was taken the morning after (of?) the blackout.

Oh wait!!! This is Fox News, they would never ever do something like lies or even shade the truth would they????

[redaxe.livejournal.com]

It's hard to tell, with the shadows obscuring the buildings directly on the water. But it looks to me very like the skyline as seen from New Jersey (looking east across the Hudson, as opposed to looking west from Brooklyn, across the East River).

Not to mention that the skyline flattens significantly more than this appears to, at the Upper West Side.

Either way, the photo editor ought to have been careful to avoid even the APPEARANCE of buildings like the WTC Towers. (Kind of like news stations need to avoid the APPEARANCE of unfair and imbalanced reportage. Remind me to tell you about working in the next building over from NewsCorp sometime -- especially during the anthrax scares.)

[jesseh.livejournal.com]

If it's a picture of the sun rising, it's from Brooklyn, facing East into the sunrise, no? I'm no fan of Fox News, but this is what the skyline's going to look like now.

[bikergeek.livejournal.com]

Not a photo of the WTC, says Snopes. The two towers shown are the AOL-TimeWarner Center, which is under construction. (Note the two cranes, one atop each tower, which can be seen if you look carefully.)

[jesseh.livejournal.com]

Sorry, I was turned around. It is from Jersey. http://www.snopes.com/humor/mediagoofs/blackout.asp

[redaxe.livejournal.com]

I see it now. It is still hard to see the skyline as Upper West Side; it's typically perceived as not high rise (but that's just because 24 story apartment buildings are in fact much lower than 50- and 75-story office towers).