ABC News broadcasts fake Syria bombing video that's actually from a Kentucky military show in 2017
2019-10-15
Lex’s submission goes straight to a tweet that links to the video in question (Knob Creek Machine Gun Night Shoot)— click on the headline above, then enjoy the article with videos — both a side by side comparison and the full ABC news report. Then enjoy the below on the subject, courtesy of Herb McCoy, which adds editorializing:
I'm so happy the internet exists so this type of shit gets called out. Just imagine how many news stories were fake and nobody knew before we were able to speak back.
And listen to the reporter's tone. He's really trying to portray it as Trump committing an unthinkable act of evil that should outrage all of us.
ABC News apologized after the network aired a video that it claimed to be Turkey's military bombing Kurdish civilians in Syria. The video is reportedly from Knob Creek Gun Range in West Point, Kentucky, and according to Fox News, is identical to a video entitled “Knob Creek night shoot 2017.”
The clip aired during Sunday's “ABC World News Tonight,” hosted by Tom Llamas.
"CORRECTION: We’ve taken down video that aired on “World News Tonight" Sunday and “Good Morning America” this morning that appeared to be from the Syrian border immediately after questions were raised about its accuracy. ABC News regrets the error," ABC World News and Good Morning America tweeted on Monday.
Posted by:Lex
#6 Drat! We KNEW we shouldn't have hired journalists who failed geography.
Posted by: Tom
2019-10-15 11:55
#5 "Australian Special Forces move into dangerous gap left by President Trump's American retreat to protect local Kurds, children."
Posted by: swksvolFF
2019-10-15 10:10
#4 You'd think the large audience might be a clue.
Speaking of clue(lessness), these 27 year olds who know nothing are so inculcated by Hollywood fakery that they can't tell the difference between gasoline explosions and the real thing.
Posted by: Whavimp Grath4899
2019-10-15 09:14
#3 But it looked like something out of hollywood; it had to be real!
Posted by: swksvolFF
2019-10-15 09:03
#2 ABCNews apologizes for broadcasting fake video of bombings in Syria
"We're sorry we got caught putting out fake news and trying to drag the U.S. into another endless war."
Posted by: JohnQC
2019-10-15 08:27
#1 We don't have journalists any more.
They're ideologically-minded purveyors of memes.
Children playing a game of Telephone that combines elements of Smear the Queer and Pin the Tail on (anyone but the) Donkey