Posted on 04/20/2022 6:22:11 PM PDT by dynachrome
A Taiwanese television station has apologised after a false report that the island was under attack from mainland China caused panic. In its morning news broadcast on Wednesday, the government-funded Chinese Television System warned in a series of its news tickers that New Taipei City was under attack.
“New Taipei hit by guided missiles from the Chinese Communist forces. Ships at the Taipei Port [in New Taipei] exploded, facilities and vessels all destroyed,” read one ticker that ran just after 7am under footage of a worker in full Covid-19 gear disinfecting a workplace at the Presidential Office. There were other latest news ticker alerts that read “Banqiao Railway Station suspected under arson attack by enemy spies with explosives”, “New Taipei Government sets up joint emergency handling centre as war is feared”.
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That must make people feel safe. geez.
The broadcast continued to flash other warnings, such as “Magnitude-7 powerful quake occurs in Taishan [New Taipei]”, “Quake causes No 2 Nuclear Power to stop operation”, and “Domestic airline plane crash-landed at Keelung River, fuselage breaks into two and many passengers trapped”.
The TV station apologised for the error and said it had accidentally broadcast captions from a fire department emergency drill.
CNN - China News Network 🤪
They should adapt the War of the Worlds broadcast to Taiwan locations, then put it on the radio.
Sum Ting Wong
Wii Tu Lo
Ho Lee Fuk
Bhang Ding Ow
(Your spelling may vary, the above is from memory)
I wonder how many people panicked.
Hmmm. This could be problematic.
Yep. It depends on the accuracy, if it was accuracy as the places they would attack first and such inside then Beijing would know that Taiwan had a spy.
Cleverly planned expose’ of potential traitors: who immediately leaped to defend the commie trash from across the strait?
Go straight to jail, do not pass go , no $$ for you.
Kinda like mistaken incoming ICBM attack from NKorea on Hawaii. Showed most Hi folks are sheep looking up in the rain — and drowning.
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