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Oops! MSNBC Uses Photo From Paris Attacks While Reporting on NAACP Bombing
(IJReview) – While much of the world’s attention was focused on terror attacks in France this week, a bomb was set off outside the Colorado Springs NAACP office.
No one was harmed and the damage to the building was minimal, but that didn’t stop one MSNBC host from using an image depicting a very different result. One problem: the photo wasn’t from the NAACP office at all.
It was from the terror attacks in France.
Hayes’ coverage started out on the right track.
Then MSNBC broadcast the photo that, as pointed out by Twitchy, shows a lot more damage and a building that looks nothing like the NAACP building:
The actual damage, as shown by local TV station KKTV:
Hayes also characterizes the attack in a way that law enforcement officers haven’t:
“At this moment, the motive for the attack is still not known, but if we are dealing with an attempted bombing aimed at the NAACP — politically motivated out of hatred — it should be clear what we’re dealing with is an attempted act of domestic terrorism.”
Denver FBI Special Agent in Charge Tom Ravanelle, according to USA Today, said:
“I’m not going to be naive. I know what the NCAAP means to some extremists in this country. We’re not going to call it terrorism. We’re not going to call it a hate crime. We’re going to call it what it is, a bombing investigation.”
MSNBC has scrubbed the video from their website, but the YouTube remains. And thanks to screen shots and the power of crowd sourcing, false information was quickly exposed and corrected.
Read more at http://redflagnews.com
Source: http://www.redflagnews.com/headlines/oops-msnbc-uses-photo-from-paris-attacks-while-reporting-on-naacp-bombing
