A Picture And A Thousand Words
 

Bad news for one This Is Local London sub-editor. Under a headline which rages "POLICE HIT OUT AT BNP OVER FAKED PHOTO" we find the following:

POLICE have slammed the British National Party for "painting a false picture" of Loughton in campaign flyers before the last local council election.

Epping Forest District commander Chief Inspector Jon Hill and Loughton Inspector Denise Morrisey said BNP claims that inner city youths were "invading the town in gangs mugging and attacking local people" were "just not true".

Mr Hill said: "Basically they've been driving up unjustifiably people's fear of crimes which don't exist. You couldn't recognise our area from the picture painted. And it doesn't make the job of police any easier."

[source: This Is Local London - 'Police hit out at BNP over faked photo']

Now this is the danger of writing a headline without paying over-much attention to the story (which continues for several more paragraphs in much the same vein). The police say the BNP were "painting a false picture", including the specific quote "you couldn't recognise our area from the picture painted". Look again at the headline. See the slightly crossed wires developing? No faked photo. Just a badly painted picture, and a metaphorical one at that. Silly sub-editor.

(And no, there isn't any reference to faked photographs in the entire article.)

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