ABC news is trying to pass gun range videos as combat footage from Syria
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#2I really hope there's an incompetence (as opposed to just not caring about doing their job right) based explanation for this otherwise it calls all of ABC's other reporting into question as well as that of every similiar media company.
Edit: I'm genuinely curious why this getting down-voted?
Re: ABC news is trying to pass gun range videos as combat footage from Syria
#3There are more instances of credible or plausible media manipulation specifically regarding Syria, e.g. the story of gas attacks in Douma:
https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/syria-chemical-attack-g...
Edit: This, attributed to the same author, is even clearer: https://www.counterpunch.org/2019/05/27/the-evidence-we-were...
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"For in the last few days, there has emerged disturbing evidence that in its final report on the alleged use of chemical weapons by the Syrian regime in the city of Douma last year, the OPCW deliberately concealed from both the public and the press the existence of a dissenting 15-page assessment of two cylinders which had supposedly contained molecular chlorine – perhaps the most damning evidence against the Assad regime in the entire report.
The OPCW officially maintains that these canisters were probably dropped by an aircraft – probably a helicopter, presumably Syrian – over Douma on 7 April 2018. But the dissenting assessment, which the OPCW made no reference to in its published conclusions, finds there is a “higher probability that both cylinders were manually placed at those two locations rather than being delivered from aircraft”."
Re: ABC news is trying to pass gun range videos as combat footage from Syria
#4News outlets and so-called journalists only ever had “credibility” insofar as there wasn’t another information medium by which their claims could be (in)validated. Now that this medium exists (you know, the internet) “journalist” is no longer someone we need to trust, believe, or finance.
Re: ABC news is trying to pass gun range videos as combat footage from Syria
#5I really hope there's an incompetence (as opposed to just not caring about doing their job right) based explanation for this otherwise it calls all of ABC's other reporting into question as well as that of every similiar media company. Edit: I'm genuinely curious why this getting down-voted?
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#6> It should be noted that Kentucky is located nowhere near Syria.
I am horrified that the author felt the need to clarify this, as if it was in dispute.
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#7Actual reddit thread: https://old.reddit.com/r/syriancivilwar/comments/dhmqzm/abc_...
Re: ABC news is trying to pass gun range videos as combat footage from Syria
#8> It should be noted that Kentucky is located nowhere near Syria. I am horrified that the author felt the need to clarify this, as if it was in dispute.
I’m pretty sure it was a joke.
Re: ABC news is trying to pass gun range videos as combat footage from Syria
#9I really hope there's an incompetence (as opposed to just not caring about doing their job right) based explanation for this otherwise it calls all of ABC's other reporting into question as well as that of every similiar media company. Edit: I'm genuinely curious why this getting down-voted?
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Re: ABC news is trying to pass gun range videos as combat footage from Syria
#10I really hope there's an incompetence (as opposed to just not caring about doing their job right) based explanation for this otherwise it calls all of ABC's other reporting into question as well as that of every similiar media company. Edit: I'm genuinely curious why this getting down-voted?
Never attribute to incompetence that which can be adequately explained by politics.