Channel 5 not only ones to run Aaron Hernandez photo (although probably only ones who should've known better)

By adamg on Mon, 01/22/2018 - 11:21am

Oops.

A bunch of TV stations and news Web sites across the US used the same Aaron Hernandez photo to illustrate the Patriots win last night that WCVB used on its Twitter feed.

In its apology last night, WCVB blamed an unspecified "news service" for making the mistake. All of the Hernandez-illustrated links we found this morning linked to an identical story that now has a generic playoff graphic supplied by Associated Press and ends with "The Associated Press contributed."

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Comments

Well...

By dmcboston on Mon, 01/22/2018 - 1:10pm.

...so everyone stole it from a Susquehanna Valley station? Or are they all Hearst stations and distributed it to all?

Or... Lazy incompetent

By Anon on Tue, 01/23/2018 - 7:03am.

Or... Lazy incompetent journalists are simply parroting news and not vetting the info. I can get that quality of information on twitter and reddit. (which is probably where the journalists get the majority of their "facts" anyway) We dont even need these other news sources anymore. Definitely don't need them if they're just going to auto repeat the same misinformation.

Except...

By An0n on Tue, 01/23/2018 - 12:56pm.

...the facts of the story were correct. You read the words, right? Or are the pictures easier for you?

why bother

By Paul on Tue, 01/23/2018 - 10:48pm.

yes, journalists whose photo editors make a mistake are lazy and incompetent, but anonymous internet trolls are hard-working and wise...