Job vacancy: Indie pic ed?
Written by David WhiteThis man is not Samuel Kunz, the dead Nazi war criminal:
He is not wanted for the death of 430,000 Jews.
He has not needed to evade justice for 67 years.
He is not dead.
He is pissed off.
The man shown is this man:
A 50 year old Croatian actor named Ljubomir Jurkovic. He was not even born until 15 years after the second world war. And that’s a film still from 2007.
According to the Guardian, “The Independent was today taking the view that it had done nothing wrong and was said to have combed academic websites before using the picture.”
As they point out, a ninja quick Google search throws up this:
And it seems that’s about as far as the picture desk went.
Ljubomir is not a happy bunny.
Next week’s front page, Pol Pot and Jackie Chan.
Discussion (6 Comments)
My god, that is unbelievable. WOW.
big oops. owch.
when I was a reporter on my first evening paper we ballsed up painfully on a far smaller scale. When two young men were killed in a horrible car crash, the picture desk trawled the archive to see if either had appeared in the paper before. They found a picture of one of them – a talented amateur footballer – and ran it on the front.
The paper used to print on site and within about 15 mins of it coming out, a colleague from a non-editorial department who knew the victims rushed up and told us the guy on the front wasn’t the dead guy – it was a team mate. The picture had previously been cropped and the caption in the system had been left unchanged. It was too late to do anything other than damage limitation – personal letters, bunches of flowers etc to both the dead guy’s family members and to the very much alive guy whose photograph we had used, and his family. horrendous.
We can’t go on like this.
Actually maybe they sacked the picture editor, and this is the result?
Good thinking batfink.
At least it shows the importance of getting it right and the power of images. Invest more please Indy, not less!