delta1 wrote:yeah I saw that, and it is an example of a media outlet passing along something fake...but that is an anomaly...and they are taking responsibility...doubt if it was deliberate, since they are apologizing...
there are plenty of other stories and videos of actual shooting and bombing and civilians fleeing from that part of the world to show the event itself is not fake...
I hope all faked news stories, by right and left leaning media sources are exposed...and that journalists today, as in the past when folks like Cronkite were trusted by both cons and libs, are motivated by facts and the truth...
what people are missing, and what is conveniently ignored, is that there is a lot of media out there.
More and more media is coming out of the area showing injured civilians, bombed out places etc. By screwing up and showing a video which had nothing to do with it, ABC has unfortunately undermined all the other media. Or at least that's what the people focusing on it want to happen.
Fine... fire whoever chose to air that video.
But we shouldn't need a video to know what the news is. News and information can be acquired a lot of different ways. Bottom line... is turkey invading syria? Are they killing kurds in a genocidal manner? If the answer to these questions is yes... then why would we focus for even a second on a fake video ABC showed? That sounds a lot like arguing over the color of a car while it runs someone over. Punish them and move on.