Story: Dimock, Pennsylvania ---- Photo: Belfield, North Dakota

I'm sure this page at the link will be changed by the time some of you get to it. It is so ridiculous that even the host will try to find a relevant picture. Not a "more" relevant picture, but a relevant picture.

The EPA says first tests of the well water coming from Dimock, Pennsylvania, reveal that the water is safe to drink. Dimock is home to a fair amount of fracking natural gas wells.

The accompanying photo is of an oil pipeline in North Dakota where no natural gas wells are fracked (or if they are, a bare minimum). Wells in North Dakota are much, much deeper, and are oil wells, not natural gas wells. (Yes, natural gas accompanies the oil but that's a different story.)

And so it goes.

But in the "what goes around, comes around" category, a recent story about fracking in California in the LA Times was accompanied by a photograph from Dimock, Pennsylvania. Here's that link.

One would think that local newspapers reporting on a local story would have local photographs, but it appears that budget cuts and/or pure laziness makes it imperative/easier to simply cut/paste or otherwise link stock photographs from the internet.

Blogs do that all the time, but mainstream, print media with websites?  Mainstream, print media outlets are turning into blogs.