Courtesy of blogger JudgeDan, here’s a tweet by Sunday Times ‘award winning’ reporter Hala Jaber:
As Dan pointed out, the photo was from the Gaza War in November 2012.
Here’s her apology:
A picture tweeted as a house attacked in #Beit_Lahya has been removed as it was tweeted as current when in fact it was frm a previous year.
— Hala Jaber (@HalaJaber) July 8, 2014
Though not quite at the level of the fautography of the BBC’s Jon Donnison exposed by BBC Watch in 2012, Jaber’s carelessness represents more evidence of the necessity of monitor groups and citizen journalists holding journalists accountable to professional, accurate and ethical reporting within the social media and more traditional media.
