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Old 21-07-2014, 14:46   #49
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Re: Malaysian plane crashes on Ukraine-Russia border

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Originally Posted by Damien View Post
I think the scene has long since been contaminated. Also in defence of the reporter it seemed to be a passing lapse of judgement which he embarrassingly seemed to notice half-way though the report. I think that's probably more understandable in a rolling news environment rather than a pre-recorded and edited clip which would show a degree of planning.
My issue with the situation is that they were basically forced to apologise instead of doing it there and then via the anchor in the studio. I'm pretty sure that transmissions are delayed by a few seconds too, the BBC ones always used to be so surely they could have pulled the plug on the transmission.
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