The eighth point says: “Big news brings out the fakers.”And so it was in the immediate aftermath of the assassination attempt against Donald Trump on Saturday 13 July. That Sunday in the newsroom was, as I imagine was the case in most newsrooms, “frenetic”, as one editor put it. There were 14 stories being prepared relating to the shooting alone, which would be accompanied by 23 images. The picture desk, which was handling photos for all the main stories from politics to sport, had thousands of images to consider. The belief was rather that it could prove to have been previously taped by Crooks and posted by persons unknown.

Source: The Guardian July 28, 2024 16:03 UTC