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Title: Does this picture show the Loch Ness Monster' | Fox News
Category: Funny
Posted By: shockedcanadian
Date: 2016-09-16 12:53:50
Canadian

[llama66]

The photo "seals" the deal. Nessie is real!

[llama66]

The photo "seals" the deal. Nessie is real!

[raydan]

$1:

The photographer is 58-year-old Ian Bremner, a worker in a whiskey warehouse...

Well that explains everything.

[DrCaleb]

If it's anything it looks like 3 seals, two of them diving.

[IGA]

You guys are crazy, Loch Ness is land locked theres no way seals could get there. Its obviously the Ogopogo on vacation.

[DrCaleb]

IGA IGA:

You guys are crazy, Loch Ness is land locked theres no way seals could get there. Its obviously the Ogopogo on vacation.

You assume the picture was taken in Loch Ness.

Thing is, cell phone cameras embed certain information in the picture file, like who took the photo, where it was taken (GPS), the make and model of the camera that took it . . . and all that information has been removed from this picture.

Once again, Fox News is thorough in it's fact checking!

[raydan]

That's the first thing I thought when I saw the picture... how can you tell this is Loch Ness?

[N_Fiddledog]

Link:
Seals in Loch Ness- filmed first by Dick Raynor in 1999 - proposed by Rupert T. Gould in 1934.

But even if we say "Yeah it's seals" that doesn't make Fox the villains here. The story is viral. Mainstream media is all over it. Google it. The Fox headline doesn't, let us say...claim a 69 year old woman was punched at a Trump event without offering quotation marks or qualifying words like "allegedly" or "claimed" in the article.

The headline says, "Does this picture show the Loch Ness Monster?" under the story classification of "Viral." Notice the question mark?

And the claim in the story is, "A picture snapped by an amateur photographer in Scotland has created a huge splash because it appears to show the fabled Loch Ness Monster."

[N_Fiddledog]

Here's a site that specializes in being skeptical.

http://doubtfulnews.com/2016/09/latest- ... -be-seals/

They say the story originated in the British tabloid, The Sun, then go further into why they're skeptical.