Pretty bad story developing for the BBC. BBC (and some others including ITV) reporters tweeted that a Labour activist punched a Conservative staffer outside a hospital. They were apparently told this by Senior Tory sources.
However it turned out there was a video of the incident showing a Tory staffer walking into someone's arm:
https://metro.co.uk/2019/12/09/labou...iser-11583590/
https://twitter.com/Peston/status/1204100056762265600
Quote:
It is completely clear from video footage that
@MattHancock
's adviser was not whacked by a protestor, as I was told by senior Tories, but that he inadvertently walked into a protestor's hand. I apologise for getting this wrong.
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The question is why did the BBC and ITV reporters just happily report this as if it were fact?
The Tories, for their part, seem to have planted the lie to deflect from this video:
https://www.itv.com/news/2019-12-09/...ospital-floor/
But that political parties will lie is almost a given - reporters taking them for their word them isn't.