Reuters says Romania is a former republic of the Soviet Union; Fox News presented PM Adrian Nastase as the countryâs president; a photo of President Traian Basescu cashing in money from an ATM illustrates an article on a Hungarian website about the problems the visually impaired in Hungary have in using the machines.
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Basescuâs photo illustrated on www.origo.hu an article describing the problems the visually impaired have in a market economy not adapted to their needs.
The article focused mainly on the law suit filed by a blind person against the OTP Hungarian Banking Group, on grounds that the ATM machines are not adapted to Braille, hence for the blind people use.
The adjoining picture showed Basescu in front of a BRD-Societe Generale ATM machine; the picture was taken on the occasion of launching the first new denominations of the leu in Romania.
The picture had no caption.
A picture of Romanian President Traian Basescu illustrated an article addressing the problems the visually impaired have in accessing ATM machines in Hungary; the administrators of the Hungarian news website promptly replaced it after Jurnalul National pointed them out the mistake.
Jurnalul National contacted the administrators of www.origo.hu, asking them to explain why the marriage of that article with that photo.
A few hours later editor Petho András sent an email explaining it was a mistake and that they corrected it. Indeed the new photo shows an OTP ATM, with no person standing beside it.
Petho said that most likely the Basescu photo came from the photo file of the EPA news agency.
For those willing to have a glimpse of our officials extracting the new Romanian leu in the night of its launching, official Romanian websites provi
