A very lame apology, to say the least.
And, as someone on Twitter pointed out, what about all the people who saw the photo but did not see Reuters’ retraction? Are they left with the impression that Israel is somehow implicated in the Iran protests?
Via Jerusalem Post.
After Reuters Television used a photograph of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Intelligence Services Minister Israel Katz to illustrate its headline about 10 Iranian protesters on its Twitter account, the Israeli Government Press Office complained to Reuters, which agreed to change it immediately….
CORRECTED PHOTO: We are deleting our tweet to replace the photograph to more accurately reflect the main points of the video https://t.co/D28ibCV5tQhttps://t.co/CEjbAYmIKV
— Reuters TV (@ReutersTV) January 1, 2018
‘more accurately reflect… video’?? Yes Shifra, Very lame.