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Questions swirl after ABC airs video from Kentucky gun range, labeled as Syria
Posted: Sun Oct 20, 2019 3:39 pm
by Lexy
This is a big black eye for ABC News.
"ABC aired supposedly shocking footage Monday and Sunday purporting to be from the frontline battle between the Syrian Kurds and the invading Turks. The only problem is, the footage appears to come from a nighttime machine gun demonstration at the Knob Creek Gun Range in West Point, Kentucky," the Washington Examiner's T. Becket Adams wrote Monday.
Adams was one of the first reporters to look into this — he was tipped off by a Twitter user. ABC issued a correction on Twitter and said the news division "regrets the error." That's an understatement...
https://www.cnn.com/2019/10/15/media/ab ... index.html
Re: Questions swirl after ABC airs video from Kentucky gun range, labeled as Syria
Posted: Sun Oct 20, 2019 3:40 pm
by Lexy
ABC News Apologizes for Airing Fake Syria Bombing Video
https://www.thedailybeast.com/abc-news- ... bing-video
Re: Questions swirl after ABC airs video from Kentucky gun range, labeled as Syria
Posted: Mon Oct 21, 2019 7:37 pm
by 29again
No way can they be called fake news, since they apologized and retracted and regretted... /s
ps. Why the meme forum? This is news, is it not?
Re: Questions swirl after ABC airs video from Kentucky gun range, labeled as Syria
Posted: Mon Oct 21, 2019 8:48 pm
by Lexy
29again wrote: ↑Mon Oct 21, 2019 7:37 pm
No way can they be called fake news, since they apologized and retracted and regretted... /s
ps. Why the meme forum? This is news, is it not?
I have no idea! I thought I posted it in N&P
Re: Questions swirl after ABC airs video from Kentucky gun range, labeled as Syria
Posted: Tue Oct 22, 2019 9:46 pm
by 29again
Lexy wrote: ↑Mon Oct 21, 2019 8:48 pm
29again wrote: ↑Mon Oct 21, 2019 7:37 pm
No way can they be called fake news, since they apologized and retracted and regretted... /s
ps. Why the meme forum? This is news, is it not?
I have no idea! I thought I posted it in N&P
Well, my dear.... it is in the meme forum, lol!