ABC news is trying to pass gun range videos as combat footage from Syria

Re:ABC news is trying to pass gun range videos as combat foo... by beerandt on Tuesday October 15, 2019 @03:37PM (#21262751)

Even if it's incompetence, I suspect it will still be based on some element of media bias. It's just a matter of who will get blamed.

Like if the film editor (or librarian or intern) that filed the original footage thought it would be funny to label a bunch of gun-loving Kentuckians as terrorists. Video gets tagged "Terrorists waging jihad on Americans. Automatic gunfire and explosions at night"

A few days/hours later someone searches the library for recent footage of Syria, and the keywords fit.

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Re:ABC news is trying to pass gun range videos as combat foo... by equalunique on Tuesday October 15, 2019 @09:53PM (#21266277)

So far you are looking at this as though ABC perpetrated this.

One unexplored possibility is that the footage was provided by some Kurdish group.

Kurdish militias are capable of spreading propaganda based on false media. They are clearly doing it today. Look at the comments here: https://twitter.com/PYD_Rojava/status/1182939359999332355?s=...

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