People in the news, especially television news, go to great lengths to make stories visual. Otherwise, without video, you would have anchors on camera simply reading, which amounts to radio on tv. The photo above is from WKYC.com. WKYC is the Cleveland NBC affiliate. The photo goes along with the following story.
BERLIN TWP -- A one year old is in stable condition after falling into a fire pit at the Mill Creek Campgrounds in Manhoning County. Officials with the Berlin Twp fire department say they were called to the campgrounds just before 10 a.m. The child was flown to Akron Children's Hospital burn unit with severe injuries to its back. No other details on the incident were available. Stay with WKYC.COM for further updates.
BERLIN TWP -- A one year old is in stable condition after falling into a fire pit at the Mill Creek Campgrounds in Manhoning County. Officials with the Berlin Twp fire department say they were called to the campgrounds just before 10 a.m. The child was flown to Akron Children's Hospital burn unit with severe injuries to its back. No other details on the incident were available. Stay with WKYC.COM for further updates.
There's a small caption underneath the photo that says "camp fire." It doesn't say if it is the one at Mill Creek where the baby fell in or if it is a recreation of a camp fire. Either way, anyone who deals with visual media has to be very careful. Also, by showing a camp fire that is unattended, isn't that fairly dangerous by unintentionally giving the inference that campfires simply burn unattended at this camp?
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