Fake Air France Footage

Posted by Peter in the forum:
TV station airs Lost as Air France crash footage
A BOLIVIAN television news channel has been left red-faced after falling for a hoax that saw it claim pictures from the hit TV show Lost were actually the last moment of Air France flight AF447 before it plunged into the ocean on June 1. Source

This confirms my theory that should a suitably dramatic picture of a major event not exist, one will be created. It's because our culture craves visual images. And hoaxers are always ready to supply what we crave.

For more examples of this phenomenon, see the gallery Imagining Disaster in the Hoax Photo Archive. In particular, the photos that circulated after the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster, supposedly taken by an Israeli satellite, but really screen shots from the movie Armageddon.

Entertainment Journalism

Posted on Tue Jun 23, 2009


Comments

The same scene made already the rounds some years ago by email. (http://www.snopes.com/photos/accident/brazil737.asp) In fact the "photos" were exactly the same as the screenshot in the article.
Posted by myce  on  Wed Jun 24, 2009  at  06:07 AM
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