Sky News suspends journalists for faking story !
 

"CD" wrote in message
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http://media.guardian.co.uk/broadcas...999743,00.html

Perhaps the entire war was faked :-)

Loz

"CD" wrote in message
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http://media.guardian.co.uk/broadcas...999743,00.html

Oh dear, they seem to be learning from FoxNews, but in that case they suspended
an anchor because she refused to read a story she knew to be false.

Az.

On Thu, 17 Jul 2003 13:01:03 +0100, CD wrote:

http://media.guardian.co.uk/broadcas...999743,00.html

The best bit is this :

"One version of the report, which was shown in various forms between
March 31 and April 2, ends with a close-up of a finger pushing a red
button marked "Fire". But the BBC documentary shows that Splendid's
missiles are fired by computer.

One HMS Splendid crew member tells the BBC: "A left mouse push fires
it. Kinda crazy really. We actually asked for a great big red button,
but they wouldn't give us one."


:-)

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On Thu, 17 Jul 2003 12:09:21 +0000 (UTC), "loz"
wrote:


"CD" wrote in message
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http://media.guardian.co.uk/broadcas...999743,00.html

Perhaps the entire war was faked :-)

You mean it wasn't really on Mars?

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On Thu, 17 Jul 2003 13:20:57 GMT, "Aztech" wrote:

"CD" wrote in message
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http://media.guardian.co.uk/broadcas...999743,00.html

Oh dear, they seem to be learning from FoxNews, but in that case they
suspended an anchor because she refused to read a story she knew to be
false.


And then AFAIK she _lost_ the court case for unfair
dismissal/suspension.

Land of the free.

Any links/info on this story/dismissal?

Z.

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Neil Hopkins wrote:
On Thu, 17 Jul 2003 13:01:03 +0100, CD wrote:


http://media.guardian.co.uk/broadcas...999743,00.html


The best bit is this :

"One version of the report, which was shown in various forms between
March 31 and April 2, ends with a close-up of a finger pushing a red
button marked "Fire". But the BBC documentary shows that Splendid's
missiles are fired by computer.

LOL, I hope its not running windows!!!


Do you really want to fire this missile?

[OK] [Cancel]

"Stephen Neal" wrote in message
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Aztech wrote:
"CD" wrote in message
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http://media.guardian.co.uk/broadcas...999743,00.html

Oh dear, they seem to be learning from FoxNews, but in that case they
suspended an anchor because she refused to read a story she knew to
be false.

In some ways isn't this the opposite? Sky suspend a journalist whilst they
investigate claims that the story was fabricated by the journalist (i.e. Sky
management may have some integrity?) - Fox suspend a presenter for not
wanting to fabricate / broadcast an incorrect story?

You'd think the bosses at the time of broadcast could differentiate a scoop from
an highly improbable scoop, i.e. nobody else carrying the story, non of the
agencies reporting it on the wires.

Az.

Aztech writes
You'd think the bosses at the time of broadcast could differentiate a
scoop from an highly improbable scoop, i.e. nobody else carrying the
story, non of the agencies reporting it on the wires.

Did you read the Guardian story?

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Dave

In article ,
says...

You'd think the bosses at the time of broadcast could differentiate a scoop from
an highly improbable scoop, i.e. nobody else carrying the story, non of the
agencies reporting it on the wires.

Er, the whole *point* of a "scoop" is that you're the only one running
the story...

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without ****ing it up!" - Anon

Ade V wrote:
In article ,
says...

You'd think the bosses at the time of broadcast could differentiate
a scoop from an highly improbable scoop, i.e. nobody else carrying
the story, non of the agencies reporting it on the wires.

Er, the whole *point* of a "scoop" is that you're the only one running
the story...

Yep - hardly likely when every member of the pool has to be provided with
the report before any member can show it... (In other words the BBC and ITN
will have had to have seen it before Sky could show it if it were part of
the UK pool)

From the MediaGuardian reports it sounds like some over-enthusiastic
editing-in of library to liven up an otherwise dull story about how missiles
would have been fired IF they had been fired... If the Sky reporter had been
the only person on the facility (and as a member of the TV pool he might
have been) - then an absence of wire copy would not be that unexpected - if
there were no AP or Reuters correspondents on the sub able to file then one
wouldn't expect corroboration from a 3rd party. (Most broadcasters actually
trust their journalists...)

Steve