Very fake news passes off knob creek shoot as attack on Kurds

[brimic]

https://twitter.com/winning45kag/status/1183748302598213633?s=21

[Perd Hapley]

Good grief. I hope this isn't true, or isn't as bad as it sounds.

[makattak]

Good grief. I hope this isn't true, or isn't as bad as it sounds.

You should know better than to have hope about the fake news:

https://twitchy.com/samj-3930/2019/10/14/ummm-is-this-real-abc-news-appears-to-have-used-gun-range-footage-from-2017-claiming-its-current-combat-in-syria/

The beginning of their "reporting" was using a CROPPED video from the Knob Creek Machine Gun night shoot. As in, someone went in and cropped out all the cell phone videoing the event that the real video had to make it seem more "authentic."

Just another example of our corrupt and lazy media.

[MechAg94]

https://www.thetruthaboutguns.com/abc-news-busted-for-using-knob-creek-footage-in-report-of-turkeys-military-attacking-kurd-civilians/

TrushAboutGuns has it now.  Video linked.

[Ben]

You should know better than to have hope about the fake news:

https://twitchy.com/samj-3930/2019/10/14/ummm-is-this-real-abc-news-appears-to-have-used-gun-range-footage-from-2017-claiming-its-current-combat-in-syria/

The beginning of their "reporting" was using a CROPPED video from the Knob Creek Machine Gun night shoot. As in, someone went in and cropped out all the cell phone videoing the event that the real video had to make it seem more "authentic."

Just another example of our corrupt and lazy media.

They're only lazy media if they use uncropped footage or shorter snippets. Once they go through the trouble of editing out the giveaways, they're just full on corrupt, not lazy. It took work to try and pass that off.

[zxcvbob]

There was a tell in his report:

This video right here appearing to show the Turkish military bombing Kurd 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…

Did you catch it?  "appearing to show"   

[zxcvbob]

I just thought of something; they don't own that video, but somebody does and I really doubt ABC had permission to use it.  Someone should serve them a DMCA takedown notice.

[HankB]

So here's one example of media deception that has been promptly uncovered.

There are certainly many more deceptive stories in which they're more adept at covering up their deceit, so their lies don't come to light.

[makattak]

They're only lazy media if they use uncropped footage or shorter snippets. Once they go through the trouble of editing out the giveaways, they're just full on corrupt, not lazy. It took work to try and pass that off.

I doubt all of them were aware of the editing by the corrupt media. The lazy ones just ran with it. But they were additionally ALL lazy (even the corrupt ones) because of how easily the lies were uncovered.

[MechAg94]

I also wonder if a 3rd party edited it and sold it or gave it to them as a Syria video. 

[Ben]

I doubt all of them were aware of the editing by the corrupt media. The lazy ones just ran with it. But they were additionally ALL lazy (even the corrupt ones) because of how easily the lies were uncovered.

Fair point.

[brimic]

I pretty much assume that anything put out by the MSM, especially foreign affairs is pure propaganda.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJ3KfEdTT3Y