EVEN A FROG WILL KICK THE BBC
Persian Journal
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Ashley O'Dell and Rhonda Roland Shearer
Jul 8, 2004, 23:56
On June 27, 2004, the BBC reported on an Iranian woman who gave birth to a frog. Their story originated from the Persian paper Etemaad.
The BBC published a photo of a frog with the caption "Tests are being carried out on the frog."
This photo has since been replaced with a map of Iran due to our complaint.
The pairing of this photo and caption implies that the frog in the photo is the Iranian woman's "frog child." It also implied that tests are being carried out on this very frog. However, we discovered that the frog in the photo is not even native to Iran.
David Dickey of the American Museum of Natural History identified the frog in the BBC photo as a Chinese Gliding Frog, Polypedates dennysi, found only in southern China. He noted that students remembered seeing this species at the museum's current frog exhibition. Dickey called the
frog child story "the worst, most ridiculous example" of bad journalism he had ever seen.
Dickey recommended speaking to the world expert on Chinese frogs, Kraig Adler, Professor of Biology and Vice Provost for Life Sciences at Cornell University.
Dr. Adler told us that the frog child storis "biologically impossible."
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Ashley O'Dell and Rhonda Roland Shearer
Jul 8, 2004, 23:56
On June 27, 2004, the BBC reported on an Iranian woman who gave birth to a frog. Their story originated from the Persian paper Etemaad.
The BBC published a photo of a frog with the caption "Tests are being carried out on the frog."
This photo has since been replaced with a map of Iran due to our complaint.
The pairing of this photo and caption implies that the frog in the photo is the Iranian woman's "frog child." It also implied that tests are being carried out on this very frog. However, we discovered that the frog in the photo is not even native to Iran.
David Dickey of the American Museum of Natural History identified the frog in the BBC photo as a Chinese Gliding Frog, Polypedates dennysi, found only in southern China. He noted that students remembered seeing this species at the museum's current frog exhibition. Dickey called the
frog child story "the worst, most ridiculous example" of bad journalism he had ever seen.
Dickey recommended speaking to the world expert on Chinese frogs, Kraig Adler, Professor of Biology and Vice Provost for Life Sciences at Cornell University.
Dr. Adler told us that the frog child storis "biologically impossible."
posted by Mama Fusla at 6:51 AM
12 Comments:
I remember reading the BBC article and thinking, this must be from their stockpile, anyways BBC does a lot of this. Now this bizarre BBC article refers to the 17th Century case of Catharina Geisslerin, known as "the toad-vomiting woman" of Germany: Catherine turned out to be a fraud: She swallowed frog legs right before she went to see the physicians and you do not want to know the rest of the gory details.
My question is why would the article compare the two stories together?
In addition to their loss of credibility, some BBC Journalists have lost their senses.
There is a Hindu proverb that says "When an elephant is in trouble even a frog will kick him."
Finally some comments. I think it is possible for humans to bear animals, and vice versa. We just need to experiment and see, and then fix the problem. We can then get a talking dog.
The beauty of dogs is that they don't talk.
Why is that the beauty of dogs?
You wonder why a dog is a man's best friend?
because man wants to talk talk talk and everyone to listen.
of course its the best thing out there if you're gonna compare BBC to Fox!
But anyways, BBC is very very biased, specially in covering Iraq because it envolved their troops.
p.s. there is a lil Dr. Moreau in all of us, bring it on.
Any1 for froglegs in truffle cream?
I disagree, women want to talk talk talk, not men. As for the animal mish mash, which parts show that I am part of an experiment PSS?
yeah, it scared me too when I realized that this kind of experimentation is actually taking place.
so I have wings or do I have 20 eyes? that is still a part on a fly.
still did not explain yourself.
did you quit or are you on vacation?
I am back from vacation, physically only.
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