Do we know who is the major owner of ABC?
ABC news is trying to pass gun range videos as combat footage from Syria
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#22Do we know who is the major owner of ABC?
You mean Disney?
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#23Mainstream news media has really gone to the dogs. Doesn't matter which side of the political spectrum you are on, I highly recommend not watching mainstream media on TV and instead find indie youtube channels.
Video seems like a bad format for news anytime the source content is not itself a video. A good newspaper article, either in print or digital, generally covers topics with much more detail and nuance than any television news presenter. The New York Times, Wallstreet Journal and Washington Post are all far from perfect but nevertheless they all stomp any of the cable news channels.
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#24This reminds me of the time ITV in the UK showed footage purporting to show the Provisional IRA shooting down a British Army Lynx.
Turns out it was a video of an ARMA2 mod.
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#25I 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.
Please tell me this has a name.
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#26Mainstream news media has really gone to the dogs. Doesn't matter which side of the political spectrum you are on, I highly recommend not watching mainstream media on TV and instead find indie youtube channels.
Youtube is a great source of information from hobbyists on specific topics. There are some bigger productions on there, but the idea of using Youtube as a news source is laughable.
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#27Earlier quoted context omitted.
I suspect someone sold them the altered footage and they rushed to get it on the air. Either for a financial benefit, or to specifically get them to air falsified footage. (Project Veritas?) Responsibility still lies with ABC to verify.
It's a shitty situation, I doubt ABC knew it was footage from the US. But how do you verify that a random video clip, filmed at night, actually took place in Syria (assuming the crowds were cropped out before they saw it, otherwise its fairly obvious)
You can start by asking the source who they are, who they work for, how they came to be in Syria, etc. Then try to confirm that information independently. That's what journalists are supposedly trained to do. If the source can't be corroborated, don't use the video. (Just like a journalist wouldn't attribute a quote to someone if it couldn't be verified.) Any reputable news organization would have a fact-checking department that does this kind of stuff.
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#28How possible is it to realistically fake something like this, instead of just re-purposing some gun porn? I'd be more concerned about that than some anxious journalists getting trolled into publishing something that is, to the initiated, obviously not from Syria.
In the present, faking something like this convincingly is probably more expensive than just passing off stock footage as the real thing. If they are motivated by laziness/greed, I wouldn't expect them to cough up the resources for an outright 'hollywood fx' style fabrication.
(When the stakes are higher and spy agencies are involved... who knows.)
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#29Mainstream news media has really gone to the dogs. Doesn't matter which side of the political spectrum you are on, I highly recommend not watching mainstream media on TV and instead find indie youtube channels.
> instead find indie youtube channels.
Like Infowars?
Re: ABC news is trying to pass gun range videos as combat footage from Syria
#30Mainstream news media has really gone to the dogs. Doesn't matter which side of the political spectrum you are on, I highly recommend not watching mainstream media on TV and instead find indie youtube channels.
Youtube is a great source of information from hobbyists on specific topics. There are some bigger productions on there, but the idea of using Youtube as a news source is laughable.
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