American journalism continues its savage war against American journalism schools.
ABC News aired a video on Sunday that host Tom Llamas said depicted a Turkish attack in northern Syria against Kurdish civilians. Turkey is indeed pushing into Syria and slaughtering Kurds along the way, but the video ABC News played last night is from a military gun demonstration in Kentucky that was published to YouTube in 2017.
“This video, right here, appearing to show Turkey’s military bombing Kurd civilians in a Syrian border town,” Llamas said on the October 13 broadcast as the video played.
But the explosions in the video are identical to explosions seen in a video titled, “Knob Creek night shoot 2017.” Knob Creek Gun Range, in the town of West Point, Kentucky, hosts a biannual event called the “Military Gun Shoot & Military Gun Show” where weapons are fired at night.
It’s unclear if the video may have been slightly manipulated before it was handed to ABC News. But the unedited video from Kentucky shows people holding up their phones to capture the destruction, while the video broadcast by ABC News appears to have colors that are less saturated than the original.
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I'll just leave this here. Mere mind-blowing incompetence doesn't explain this. At least I'd like to believe that no one can possibly be this incredibly stupid.
I'll just leave this here. Mere mind-blowing incompetence doesn't explain this. At least I'd like to believe that no one can possibly be this incredibly stupid.
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I'm not sure "stupid" is the explanation. Careless and biased, yes, but there's some degree of intentional misbehavior here.
That's exactly what I was thinking; nobody is this stupid or incompetent. If they were and they got a job with ABC, I don't see the point in a journalism degree when networks could hire people without them a lot cheaper.
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