People even send live animals through USPS. Not even with express mail but priority mail so it can take up to 3 days even when things are running smoothly.
That was my first thought too. WHO tf sends food through the frigging mail? Least of all fruit and meat? I mean, maybe fruitcake (I will never believe its real food anyways) and/or beef jerky ... maybe. Even then, I've never seen it happen.
Using stock photos twice is the equivalent of reusing "B-roll" in a news story.
Like when the story is about obesity or heart disease... they always show the same recycled footage from the late 90's of fat people from the neck down walking in and out of a store...
That about this.
I fucking hate the media, but if it's just random bullshit stock photos (and not something they are representing as crucial to the story)... then it's really not a conspiracy.
Also i should add that i wouldn't put it past them to fake a photo, or use photos of something else to "prove" something that didn't happen... i just don't think this is that.
LOL, the first thing i thought of when i was almost done, is exactly what you just said.
...which is why i wrote that last part.
"Fuckem" on just about every single thing they do, but unless i'm missing something they are just writing a story about a mailroom and didn't have a picture of a mailroom so they found one. I don't think it changes the story but maybe i'm not seeing what other people are.
Yeah, in this case I think it's just a random photo showing "busy mail room". But the fact that the news is using it to spin very different stories is the real problem. Is a busy mail room good? Is a busy mail room bad? Answer: it depends on which narrative they've been told to push. But we already know that.
It’s stock photography, no different than a programmer using stack overflow and copy/pasting what they need because they don’t don’t want to reinvent the wheel or go into a post office’s sorting facility every time they need to talk about USP
That makes sense. I guess the better question is who is reverse image everything searching to find out what is a stock photo and why? Like others have pointed out, using a stock photo doesn’t prove that it’s false. The picture clearly never showed rats eating rotting food in the post office
People even send live animals through USPS. Not even with express mail but priority mail so it can take up to 3 days even when things are running smoothly.
That must be one of the steps in the transformation to communism. https://youtu.be/fOleVlYhxVQ
That was my first thought too. WHO tf sends food through the frigging mail? Least of all fruit and meat? I mean, maybe fruitcake (I will never believe its real food anyways) and/or beef jerky ... maybe. Even then, I've never seen it happen.
The story is bullshit, but it's a thing. Maybe more popular when I was kid.
Stuff like this:
https://www.harryanddavid.com/
Using stock photos twice is the equivalent of reusing "B-roll" in a news story.
Like when the story is about obesity or heart disease... they always show the same recycled footage from the late 90's of fat people from the neck down walking in and out of a store...
That about this.
I fucking hate the media, but if it's just random bullshit stock photos (and not something they are representing as crucial to the story)... then it's really not a conspiracy.
Also i should add that i wouldn't put it past them to fake a photo, or use photos of something else to "prove" something that didn't happen... i just don't think this is that.
LIke using the video of an explosives demo at a gun show and claiming it's a new war in Syria?
LOL, the first thing i thought of when i was almost done, is exactly what you just said.
...which is why i wrote that last part.
"Fuckem" on just about every single thing they do, but unless i'm missing something they are just writing a story about a mailroom and didn't have a picture of a mailroom so they found one. I don't think it changes the story but maybe i'm not seeing what other people are.
Yeah, in this case I think it's just a random photo showing "busy mail room". But the fact that the news is using it to spin very different stories is the real problem. Is a busy mail room good? Is a busy mail room bad? Answer: it depends on which narrative they've been told to push. But we already know that.
Ok that i can get behind...
Yes... there very well could be bias in how they are presenting it... as you said the "busy mailroom" pic helps to frame a sense of panic and doom.
But they aren't turning the frogs gay.
Well it’s stock photos...
Not exactly something that’s worth caring about
Imagine a court where the evidence is totally unrelated. You would be accused of being less than truthful. You don’t have to lie to sell the truth
It’s stock photography, no different than a programmer using stack overflow and copy/pasting what they need because they don’t don’t want to reinvent the wheel or go into a post office’s sorting facility every time they need to talk about USP
Stock photos are usually captioned as such, this we deceptive. We can disagree. They do this all the time.
Yahoo is a cesspool of anti-Trump shit.
How do people find these things?
silent majority working in the newsroom dropping anonymous tips on social media and forums?
reverse image search
it's about 1/2 as easy as a google search
That makes sense. I guess the better question is who is reverse image everything searching to find out what is a stock photo and why? Like others have pointed out, using a stock photo doesn’t prove that it’s false. The picture clearly never showed rats eating rotting food in the post office
This is really real?
San Gabriel Valley Tribune
https://www.sgvtribune.com/2018/12/12/postal-service-center-substitutes-as-modern-day-santas-workshop/