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Originally posted by towny
I don't know who I'm more disgusted with, the Pentagon for failing to correct the misleading idea that Lynch had been shot, or the media for being so desparate for a story that they took leave of their basic training - check, check and check again.
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According to Private Eye, at some points, the BBC were recieving so much information that they did not have enough journalists to check the story. The decided to run with these stories, even though they had only been checked by the studio technical staff.. News 24 apparently suffered quite badly with this.
I remember one time when ITV news showed a Baghdad street for 45 minutes because they thought something would happen there. Don't know who was more stupid, them for showing or me for watching...