CNN’s Brian Stelter is reporting on just how that video of a Kentucky gun range ended up in an ABC News story as if it happened in Syria, and to be frank, this makes the network look even worse.
ABC News “had a hard time confirming its authenticity, but decided to use it anyway”?
A source provided the errant video to a "fixer" who was working for ABC in Syria. Staffers in NYC vetted the video, had a hard time confirming its authenticity, but decided to use it anyway. "Smart people made the wrong decisions," an exec told me https://t.co/ozSLCvPqcI
— Brian Stelter (@brianstelter) October 22, 2019
No wonder they aren’t talking on the record:
One week after making an egregious error — airing "slaughter in Syria" video that actually came from a gun range in Kentucky — ABC News still hasn't explained how it happened.
So I tried to reconstruct the chain of events for this story… https://t.co/ozSLCvPqcI
— Brian Stelter (@brianstelter) October 22, 2019
So, what else has ABC News used on air that they couldn’t verify?
What a damn joke:
Journalists: LOLOL
— Physics Geek (@physicsgeek) October 22, 2019
And Stelter’s source spelled “politically motivated people” wrong:
“Smart people made bad decisions” really means “politically motivated people made the choice thinking they’d get away with it”
— That Guy (@BDubCO) October 22, 2019
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