And in the rush to report as accurately as possible what had happened only hours before its prime time evening news aired and speculate on the causes behind the derailment that led to the crash, TF1 pulled out all the stops and proved just how attentive to detail its news department really was.
Even though France's rolling news channels such as BFM TV and i>Télé had cameras and reporters "on the ground" to use the hackneyed so beloved of many a journalist, TF1's news anchor, Claire Chazal, told viewers that they would now be seeing "some of the very first images available from the scene".
And sure enough, there they were: pictures of some passengers being helped out of the wreckage, a view from another platform and rescue workers busy walking around the front of the train.
But wait.
To the eagle-eyed viewer (and there were apparently more than a few) something didn't quite seem to be as it should.
Because that photo of the locomotive on its side (at 40 seconds) with rescue workers surrounding it, bore more than a passing resemblence to one which appeared in the May 9, 2013 edition of Aujourd'hui en France - Le Parisien, to accompany a story in the southern Russian city of Rostov-sur-le-Don on the crash of a freight train carrying chemical and petroleum products
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| Brétigny-sur-Orge crash, according to TF1 (screenshot from TF1 news) |
That's right. It was exactly the same picture.
Well done TF1. Always first to bring us the news as it happens - just apparently elsewhere.
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