A quick check of the Google cache would have told you it has changed and the screen shot is valid. Google claim they crawled the site at 17 Mar 2008 13:09:39 GMT.
http://64.233.183.104/search?q=cache%3Ahttp% 3A//news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/7300312.stm Adam On Mon, 2008-03-24 at 23:39 +0000, Tim Dobson wrote: > As someone who has a pronounced dislike of propaganda and > misinformation, I have been following the recent events surrounding > Tibet, quite carefully. > > By reading the news stories from both the Chinese and the Western point > of view, one can see the large difference in opinions. > > I was interested today, to read on Xinhua, the Chinese State news > agency, that the BBC had been accused of displaying an image of a > ambulance with a caption stating that "There is a heavy military > presence in Lhasa".[1] > > Interested that it was citing a BBC article, I did a quick search to > find the original article and accompanying photo [2]. The caption of the > photo on the BBC page instead says "There have been many reports of > injuries and deaths in Lhasa". > > Intrigued by the differences that the articles show, I looked at the > last updated text in both the Xinhua screenshot and the BBC article. > They show exactly the same time and date. > > From this I would infer that the Xinhua screenshot has been doctored, > however, in order to give them the benefit of the doubt: > > Does anyone BBC-side (or otherwise) have any idea about whether one can > change one of these image captions in the live content without updating > the "last updated" tag. > > If you think there are other explanations or can expand on anything I > have said, feel free to. > > I would not be *surprised* to see doctored screenshot, however I would > be interested about it's context and effect. > I would also be interested if the BBC had silently changed the caption > to this image in question. > > [1] http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2008-03/23/content_7841316.htm > [2] http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/7300312.stm > > > Tim > > - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. Unofficial list archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk/
