CBS News said the excerpt -- taken from an Islamic militant group's recruitment video -- was meant to illustrate a report on the way the videotaped execution of Mr. Pearl, a Wall Street Journal reporter, was being used to draw new converts.
The mistake involved an image of a submarine that a Russian TV company had used to illustrate a report about a Russian submarine voyage to the Arctic.
But getting his latest post-telly job right sometimes eludes papers: there he is, squatting (as "chief executive of HR Owen") and grinning in front of a red super-car to illustrate a report on the luxury car dealer in Friday's Times; Begging Bowl, however, has already moved on, to Camelot.
A photograph of the same building shown in the activists' video was published on the Arabic Web site of Syria's state news agency, to illustrate a report that claimed the damage was done as the authorities "stormed a hideout of an armed terrorist group in one of the residential buildings in Mezze after evacuating the building".
At a news conference in Damascus on March 24 , 2011 an adviser to the Syrian president, Bouthaina Shaaban, lectured a BBC correspondent for using video posted on YouTube to illustrate a report about the use of force against protesters in the southern city of Dara'a.
The example illustrates a report generated for law enforcement authorities.
Its weakness was vividly illustrated by a report last week by the International Data Corporation that showed a sharp drop in global sales.
The critical need for this measure was illustrated by a report in The Times on Wednesday that showed how easy it is for criminals to buy weapons on the Internet without a look at their backgrounds.
Prior to the highly publicised killing of a woman and her four children last week, this pattern had been illustrated by a report from B'Tselem, the leading Israeli human rights organisation, which stated that 106 Palestinians were killed between February 27 and March 3. Fifty-four of them were civilians, and 25 were under 18 years of age.
The potential magnitude of error is illustrated by a report from Australia (8).
