Much indignation about Iran's testing of interontinental missiles yesterday but that wasn't the only story coming out of the country.
The New York Times Lede column reports
As news spread across the world of Iran’s provocative missile tests, so did an image of four missiles heading skyward in unison. Unfortunately, it appeared to contain one too many missiles, a point that had not emerged before the photo appeared on the front pages of The Los Angeles Times, The Financial Times, The Chicago Tribune and several other newspapers as well as on BBC News, MSNBC, Yahoo! News, NYTimes.com and many other major news Web sites.but
Today, The Associated Press distributed what appeared to be a nearly identical photo from the same source, but without the fourth missile.and the reason for the difference? Well it's all the fault of the Iranian's
Agence France-Presse retracted its four-missile version this morning, saying that the image was “apparently digitally altered” by Iranian state media. The fourth missile “has apparently been added in digital retouch to cover a grounded missile that may have failed during the test,” the agency said. Later, it published an article quoting several experts
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