CBS has some ‘splaining to do. They’ve been caught using a clip of video of a crowded hospital ward during a report on the New York’s coronavirus emergency. However, the clip is from Italy.
Sky News had this report on March 22nd.
Sky News had this report on March 22nd.
They rush past wards already rammed with beds all filled with people in terrible distress – gasping for air, clutching at their chests and at tubes pumping oxygen into their oxygen-starved lungs.I’m in the main hospital in Bergamo, the hardest-hit hospital in Italy in the hardest-hit town in the hardest-hit province, Lombardy – and it’s just plain scary.
The video is startling and the article includes screenshots from the embedded video.
Here’s CBS’s own video. I’ve cued it up just before the Italian clinic clip (1:20 mark) being used to add gravitus to Cuomo’s desk pounding about needing more ventilators.
Look familiar?
Here’s some screenshots to make the comparison clear.
Marco Rubio was excoriated by our firefighter journalists for this tweet —
Some in our media can’t contain their glee & delight in reporting that the U.S. has more #CoronaVirus cases than #China
Beyond being grotesque,its bad journalism
We have NO IDEA how many cases China really has but without any doubt its significantly more than why they admit to
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I’d say CBS has certainly contributed to the truth Rubio dared to express. Certainly our Pravda media has been willing to carry water for the CCP, too.
Any wonder the public trust in journalists is tanking? Heck of a job, CBS!!
Here’s some unsolicited advice to our Brave Sir Robin journalists. Either seek help for the mental issues you have with this President or quit. Any rational media outlet would not just be reporting just the updates on the Wuhan coronavirus but the effects of the lockdown on the economy. Where are the stories covering struggling small businesses and if they are going to survive? The human interest stories of people working from home? Columns of advice on how to save money and how to make money from home during the lockdown?
I haven’t seen any of this. I’d say “shame on you” but …
“The average reporter we talk to is 27 years old, and their only reporting experience consists of being around political campaigns… They literally know nothing.” ~~ Ben Rhodes
… so I won’t hold my breath.
UPDATE
NEW:CBS News tells me the misleading video showing an Italian hospital during a segment on NY coronavirus crisis was "an editing mistake." No word yet on issuing an on-air correction.
"It was an editing mistake. We took immediate steps to remove it from all platforms and shows."
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Why yes, double checking one’s video clips and their source before using them is just soooooo hard nowadays. And it’s just going to be shoved down a blackhole and forgotten. Move on, peasants.
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