Trajectory Of A Parody As Rumour And Propaganda
POSTED BY SUNDEEP DOUGAL
In the end, Al Jazeera decided to merely laugh it off with a tweet:
The above is of course from a cursory following of the various links backwards: what seems to have begun on Twitter on August 24 (at least in the above direct chain—of course, it is not known who is responsible for the obviously badly doctored image that was tweeted by @truth8090, and for all we know it may even have circulated earlier) was finally put to an end on Twitter itself: it seems to have gone from Twitter to a news websie to Facebook to Twitter, before being countered on Twitter itself
As some one pointed out to @truthbloom, the fake photo seems to have been doctored using this:
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While Al Jazeera decided to make light of it, a small point still remains: "Lotus bloom" and "Dr. Subramanian Swamy fan page managed by ShankhNaad Team" were only two of the disseminators of the image, and not everyone of the thousands who liked or shared or retweeted it or merely saw it would necessarily see this response and thus would perhaps remain convinced that the broadcaster is at the least guilty of unknowingly telecasting doctored images, even if it is not so ill-informed (or so brazen) that it does not know (or thinks its viewers would not know) about Jai and Viru, Sholay, or, indeed about Dharmendra or @SrBachchan and is merrily fooling people with Hindi movie shots. Which is perhaps what the rumour mongers rely on, and that is why one needs to wish more power to the likes of snopes.com—the definitive Internet reference source for urban legends, folklore, myths, rumors, and misinformation, or in this case a parody that was transmuted into a rumour, before finally being rebutted.
http://www.outlookindia.com/blogs/post/Sholay-In-Gaza-Trajectory-Of-A-Parody-As-Rumour-And-Propaganda/3382/5
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