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    Quote Originally Posted by fuego View Post
    Yet they still excuse it in their own way:

    At least ABC fessed up to the mistake

    The NYT's Mike McIntire made an important point on Twitter about "the difference between journalistic mistakes and fake news." Here's what he wrote, in italics:
    1. It actually IS a mistake and not willful propaganda
    2. It's acknowledged and corrected
    3. Partisan opportunists seize on it anyway to claim bias

    These are important points! Well at least they acknowledged it! As if they had a choice. It was so blatant they couldn't ignore it. lol.

    And the height of hypocrisy coming from CNN.
    As an outsider I get the feeling that maybe, just maybe, they were fed that video by some Trump supporter who uses gun ranges in for instance Kentucky.

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    Quote Originally Posted by krystian View Post
    -Hoo boy. You really can't make this crap up. Or then again, apparently you can — if you're ABC News.

    In the past two days, ABC News has aired footage supposedly showing the shocking attack of invading Turkish forces on Syrian Kurds.

    On Sunday, ABC News anchor Tom Llamas aired the footage, claiming it showed a fierce Turkish attack on Kurd civilians.

    "The situation rapidly spiraling out of control in northern Syria. One week since President Trump ordered U.S. forces out of that region, effectively abandoning America's allies in the fight against [the Islamic State]," he said.

    Llamas described the video saying it appeared to show "Turkey's military bombing Kurd civilians in a Syrian border town. The Kurds, who fought alongside the U.S. against ISIS. Now, horrific reports of atrocities committed by Turkish-backed fighters on those very allies."

    On Good Morning America the next day, senior foreign correspondent Ian Pannell, who is in Syria, said "This video, obtained by ABC News, appears to show the fury of the Turkish attack on the border town of Tal Abyad."

    Tracer bullets, furious explosions in the dark of night...pretty dramatic stuff. And horrific too, if it were actually from Syria.

    Except. It's not...

    *videos at link*

    ABC caught in massive hoax as Syria "battle footage" actually from Kentucky gun range - Nine Line News
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    Quote Originally Posted by FireBrand View Post
    ABC caught in massive hoax as Syria "battle footage” actually from Kentucky gun range-411ca2e0-5261-4ba8-a165-9609ac374c80-jpg


    Whatever happened to him?

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    Quote Originally Posted by krystian View Post


    Whatever happened to him?
    He's with MSNBC I believe.

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