Then it turned out that the clips were of a Kentucky shooting range taken in 2019.
FAKE NEWS!
Then there is news that is deleted, like the stories of Nazi concentration camps and Stalin's starvation of Ukranians. Both stories were true, and would have saved lives
had they run in the New York Times, but neither did. The NYT ran from the news.
And today the NYT makes no mention of Michael Bagley and his arrest earlier this year, which was recorded by the Daily Beast; which then stopped reporting on Bagley
after they were encouraged to do so by a man how knew Bagley and his works - Ken
Gibson. As soon as the Daily Beast heard the word 'Democrat' in association with Bagley, they backed off. The NYT had already done so two years previously, appa-
rently shy to report on a former aide of powerful Democrat senator Patty Murray.
Bagley had secret state department waivers to go to Syria and arm rebels, and set up refugee camps, which he admitted to Gibson were fronts for black ops. They were also
money makers and Bagley et al. went on the air to sell their 'micro-cities' idea.
Now Syria is a mess that Trump has inherited. Russia and the US are brought into the conflict. Bagley has been arrested - after Gibson tipped off the DHS and the FBI set up a sting. Where is the news on this? I guess the reporters are all out stealing footage from Kentucky shooting ranges to support their agenda.
Below is the story on that fiasco. Read and laugh:
ABC Apologizes for Showing Video From U.S. Gun Range in Report on Syria
The video appeared in a report on Turkish attacks in northern Syria. ABC News did not specify how the error had occurred.
ABC News apologized Monday for mistakenly running a video that apparently was taken at a gun range in Kentucky with a report about Turkish attacks in northern Syria.
“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,” the network said in a statement on Monday. “ABC News regrets the error.”
A representative for ABC News declined to comment on how the mix-up had happened.
The clip that accompanied the reports on the bombings showed explosions and smoke dominating the dark horizon. Tom Llamas, an anchor with ABC News’s “World News Tonight” spoke over the footage, which someone reposted on YouTube. “This video, right here, appearing to show Turkey’s military bombing Kurd civilians in a Syrian border town,” Mr. Llamas said.
A number of people on social media noted on Monday that the clip strongly resembled a video uploaded to YouTube in April 2017. The title “Knob Creek night shoot 2017” referred to an evening machine gun event held by the Knob Creek Gun Range in Kentucky.
An employee who answered the phone at the gun range on Monday but would not give his name, said that he was not sure who had shot the video. But he said he recognized it as having been taken at the facility.
News organizations have various systems for vetting footage to verify authenticity. Claire Wardle, executive director of First Draft, an organization that fights online disinformation, said that this sort of situation should be “relatively easy” to avoid by using tools like reverse-image search.
“ABC has a really good team that does this work,” she wrote via email. “But I assume that on a Sunday, when they were probably stretched for staff, they failed to do the necessary verification checks, and under the pressure that comes with breaking news, this got through.”
It was hardly the first time that an incorrect image or video clip had made its way into a news report. Such errors risk undermining coverage that has been properly sourced.
A number of right-leaning social media accounts and news outlets, like The Washington Examiner, wrote that the incorrectly sourced clip raised broader questions about the trustworthiness of coverage.
President Trump also weighed in, on Twitter:
ABC’s mistake came one week after President Trump vowed to clear the way for a Turkish military operation in northern Syria, leaving America’s longtime Kurdish allies feeling betrayed and unleashing chaos.
On Wednesday Turkey launched a ground and air assault along the border, killing more than 20 Kurdish fighters and forcing civilians to flee. In a joint statement on Monday, 28 European ministers condemned Turkey’s military action, stating that it “undermines the stability and the security of the whole region, resulting in more civilians suffering and further displacement and severely hindering access to humanitarian assistance.”
Heather Murphy is a general assignment reporter who often writes about advances in DNA technology. @heathertal
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