In a great piece of blogging by the folks at Spare Room, a New Zealand woman said she made a (clearly and obviously) photoshopped image of a tornado hitting New Plymouth, NZ as a joke to her coworkers. Well, the local television stations didn’t get the memo, and they posted it as news!
According to New Zealand’s Stuff both TV One and TV 3 use the image to say a tornado had hit the town.
“It’s a timely reminder to be vigilant when accepting images from the public, especially with the range of technology available to people now,” TV3 spokesman Roger Beaumont told the media site.