Kentucky....the new Syria
 

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Oopsies!

ABC mistakenly aired video from Kentucky as Kurds in Syria

Steve

They took an ooops and were still happy because they were first!! (a prime measure of news reporting for them....true or not).

Just another account of network news' continuously deteriorating credibility.

I think National Enquirer is more credible

And it was actually this:

We’d like to thank ABC news for the free... - Knob Creek Gun Range | Facebook

Steve

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Wow ///.

:popcorn::popcorn: Hmmmm! How about some popcorn in case this thread bombs!

In case? Now that's funny.
Steve

After that....I pass!
Try and have a good day!

Bucco, so so true!

Yes a mainstream news organization used a film clip sent to it by a person claiming that it was recorded from the Turkish slaughter of the Kurds, that invasion by the Turks having been accurately foreseen.

"Turkey will soon be moving forward with its long-planned operation into Northern Syria."

As the Turks have long regarded the Kurds as a terrorist people and their fighters, who fought for United States which the Turks did not, as enemies.. it should surprise no one that Turkey is now destroying the Kurdish region in Syria as it has long wished to do.
So the take home message some might glean is that explosions and destruction are happening in Kurdistan thanks to our allies the Turks. I dare say one could find mistakes on every news media.
At least this one wasn't a deliberate attempt to mislead the public about the events rather a poorly vetted use of externally supplied material that fit the true picture, not provided a false narrative.

Big deal. Mistakes often happen in war time correspondence.

Have wonder about the competence of whoever the editor in charge is ....

Steve[/QUOTE]

Yes, I too remember that famous headline "Nazis Attack Pearl Harbor" although it was later corrected

Was it or wasn't it deliberate? Doesn't it make you wonder just a little?

This is the part of the "apology" that got to me;

"An ABC source said the video was difficult to verify because the person who sent it described security concerns, as well as a sensitive position along the border."

So they ran with it even though it couldn't be verified. Nice.

Steve

Oopsies!

Did Congressman Tweet Pix of Russian Warship While Wishing US Navy Happy Birthday?

That is amusing.

People make mistakes. These latest do not seem to be planned and strategic misdirections of the truth.

Also just wanting to clarify for blueash - Kurdistan isn't really a specific place, or a country. It is a region within four different countries that share a border, where the Kurds live. Kurd is not a nationality. Kurds can be Iraqi, Turkish, Syrian, or Iranian. So by saying Turkey is destroying Kurdistan, you're basically saying Turkey is destroying itself.

That's not what's happening (Turkey isn't trying to destroy itself) but it's important to get accurate data to form meaningful opinions.

What is happening is an attempt at genocide against the Kurds, in addition to a Turkey/Syria war.

I had an Iraqi friend at the U of Denver Graduate School of Librarianship and Information Management in 1983-1984. He was from the U of Mosul Library. One of his main targets of jokes were the Kurds. He was a Sunni I am fairly certain. Saddam Hussein - Wikipedia The Difference between Shiite and Sunni Muslims and Why It Matters

He went back to Iraq and we corresponded for a few years. It stopped though as his attitudes towards the West got uglier and uglier.

Not sure what happened to him. He seemed to be alive in 2012 or so but I could not find much about him after ISIS took Mosul and pretty much destroyed the U of Mosul Library.

The wars in Iraq have a lot of lies attached to them. Many of them seemed very deliberate.

The topic was about a media outlet using an unverified source for a video that was broadcast.

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