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Comparing captions

I just started subscribing to the Mideast Conflict on Yahoo! News Photos in Bloglines. The other day I noticed the same picture twice, the second time with an updated caption.
Caption 1:

A Palestinian girl walks inside her family's destroyed apartment after it was hit by a missile from an Israeli tank shell in the northern Gaza Strip, February 22, 2006. A Palestinian boy was injured after he was hit by a missile from an Israeli tank shell at this Palestinian house in the northern Gaza Strip, Palestinian official said. REUTERS/Suhaib Salem Email Photo Print Photo

Caption 2:

CAPTION CLARIFICATION - REPEATING WITH CLEAR SOURCING IN FIRST SENTENCE. A Palestinian girl walks inside her family's destroyed apartment that Palestinians said was hit by a missile from an Israeli tank shell in the northern Gaza Strip, February 22, 2006. A Palestinian boy was injured after a missile from an Israeli tank shell hit this Palestinian house in northern Gaza Strip, Palestinian official said. REUTERS/Suhaib Salem

This brings to mind a few questions:
1) How often does Reuters present what Palestinian witnesses without qualification (or identification)?
2) What made them clarify it this time?
3) Should we assume that there was a different reason that the apartment was destroyed that's not being reported.

Technorati tags: Reuters, Gaza.

Crossposted on Soccer Dad and Israpundit.

Posted by SoccerDad at February 24, 2006 4:03 AM