Meme credit: Dispropaganda.com
The corruption of the media is evident everywhere; turn on the TV news
and it’s all propaganda. Kristine Marsh at Newsbusters has the latest ugly
report:
ABC’s Tom Llamas reported on the
“Slaughter in Syria” on Sunday’s World News Tonight, October 13:
“Weeks since President Trump
ordered U.S. forces out of that region, effectively abandoning America’s allies
in the fight against ISIS,” he gushed to open the segment. In the background,
rapid gunfire and explosions across a night sky were shown, as Llamas described
the scene:
This video right here appearing to
be showing Turkey’s military bombing Kurdish civilians in a Syrian border town.
The Kurds, who fought alongside the US against ISIS, now horrific reports of
atrocities committed by Turkish-backed fighters on those very allies.
Again, on Good Morning America,
October 14, correspondent Ian Pannell played this same video in a segment
entitled "Crisis in Syria" and gushed, “This video obtained by
ABC News appears to show the fury of the Turkish attack on the border town.”
Except, the video ABC played,
appears to be from a nighttime machine gun event at the Knob Creek Gun Range in
West Point, Kentucky.
The footage, which looks to be
from 2017, shows American gun enthusiasts putting on a terrific pyrotechnic
show for their audience in Kentucky. In fact, the Machine
Gun Shoot and Military Gun Show, which involves the very popular night shoot,
is an annual event at the Kentucky gun range. People love the show. They love
it so much, in fact, that they record it and post footage of it to social
media.
The video was caught by some
Twitter users, who put the two videos side by side over the weekend.
Finally, ABC was forced to apologize and take down the videos from their
website:
CORRECTION: 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. ABC News regrets the error.
However, the damage has already
been done. We will see if a correction comes on tonight’s World News
Tonight broadcast.
The article and the videos are here.
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