Business Insider posts Trayvon Martin "photos" sourced from Stormfront.

[DanTex]

Yes, really. They took them down when the realized they were fake...

Sourcing Trayvon Martin “Photos” From Stormfront
Not a good idea, Business Insider
By Ryan Chittum
TAGS: Business Insider, Corrections, photographs, Stormfront, Trayvon Martin


Business Insider runs a linkbait post with a graphic of Trayvon Martin images it found on the neonazi website Stormfront.

It doesn’t run them to debunk them, mind you, but to back up its thesis that “The Media Is Getting the Trayvon Martin Story Wrong,” as it says in the title bar (the headline hedges it as “Why Lots Of People Think The Media Is Wrong About The Trayvon Martin Case.”

We first saw this image (right) of Trayvon Martin on Stormfront a racist message board.

But how would the story have been received by the public if this was the image of Trayvon Martin in your newspaper, rather than the earlier ones we’ve seen everywhere else?

That was a very bad idea, and it backfired quickly. At 11:40 a.m., an hour after publishing, Michael Brendan Dougherty updated his post:

http://www.cjr.org/the_audit/sourcing_trayvon_martin_photos.php

[Lilyeye]

1. The minute I saw the pic and before I knew it was another Trayvon Martin I thought

that doesn't even look like him! I also saw another picture of a kid dressed in dark baggy clothes going around as Trayvon. That kid also looked nothing like him. These people aren't even trying to hide their stupidity and racism anymore.