ABC News Gets Caught Red Handed: ‘Syrian Slaughter’ Video Was Actually Recorded In Kentucky
ABC News was forced to remove a video they aired twice on television claiming is was Turkish military forces attacking Kurdish fighters in northern Syria. The video was not recorded in Syria, it was actually recorded in the USA, and the video wasn’t even recorded this year.
Originally ABC News reported that the video was an attack on the border town of Tal Abyad, and was shown on World News Tonight Sunday and Good Morning America Monday morning. But Gizmodo discovered that the video was recorded in 2017 in Kentucky during a military demonstration show. Gizmodo reports:
The explosions in the video are identical to explosions seen in a video titled, “Knob Creek night shoot 2017.” Knob Creek Gun Range, in the town of West Point, Kentucky, hosts a biannual event called the “Military Gun Shoot & Military Gun Show” where weapons are fired at night. Members of the public can come and see the show for a fee in April and October.
Both anchor Tom Llamas and foreign correspondent Ian Panell can be heard using language to make it clear that ABC News didn’t shoot the video and instead acquired it from an outside source.
“This video, obtained by ABC News, appears to show the fury of the Turkish attack on the border town of Tal Abyad two nights ago,” Panell said during the Sunday broadcast.
It’s not certain that ABC News edited the video because the Knob creek video showed people and the ABC broadcast had colors less saturated blurring out where the people would have been.
ABC News did respond to the allegation saying, “We’ve taken down a video that aired on ‘World News Tonight Sunday’ and ‘Good Morning America’ this morning that appeared to be from the Syrian border immediately after questions were raised about its accuracy. ABC News regrets the error,” an ABC News spokesperson told Gizmodo via email.
ABC News also issued a public apology and said, “CORRECTION: We’ve taken down the video that aired on “World News Tonight” Sunday and “Good Morning America” this morning that appeared to be from the Syrian border immediately after questions were raised about its accuracy. ABC News regrets the error.”
CORRECTION: We’ve taken down video that aired on “World News Tonight” Sunday and “Good Morning America” this morning that appeared to be from the Syrian border immediately after questions were raised about its accuracy. ABC News regrets the error.
— World News Tonight (@ABCWorldNews) October 14, 2019
Here is a video of the two instances ABC News showed the footage and then around the 30-second mark is the original Knob Creek military demonstration in 2017. You can see how it appears the people were “edited” out.
The fake news media is caught again.