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Africa: Subsaharan
TV Shut Down for Being Right
2005-10-25
Nigerian authorities have banned the private television station whose reporters were the first to find the site where an airliner crashed killing all 117 on board, the National Broadcasting Commission announced yesterday. Reporters from Lagos-based African Independent Television (AIT) were the first to reveal Sunday that the Bellview Airlines Boeing 737 had come down a short distance outside Lagos in the village of Lissa, a cocoa growing area near President Olusegun Obasanjo’s farm in Otta.

Earlier, several Nigerian officials had incorrectly told journalists that the crash site was in Kishi, a remote rural area 400 km further north. AIT’s report allowed many reporters traveling to the scene to alter course and head for the true location. Despite this, a statement from the National Broadcasting Commission accused Nigerian outlets in general of causing “confusion” in the international media through their reporting.
Posted by:Fred

#1  I wonder what would happen if ABCCBSNBCPBS were ever right on something?
Posted by: Jackal   2005-10-25 22:13  

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