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CNN running video from Hurricane Harvey claiming it's footage of Covid-19 Pandemic
Facebook | 23 April 2020 | Mene Mene Tekel Upharsin

Posted on 04/23/2020 10:23:47 AM PDT by MeneMeneTekelUpharsin

Go to Facebook and look up Jeremy M. Jack's (from Texas) Facebook account and you will see his rant about CNN showing video of him standing in line with a grocery cart with the headline "How you can cope with your fears.". Jack is UPSET because the image is from when he was shopping for groceries during HURRICANE HARVEY.

CNN is publishing material, without permission, which is an outright lie. Hello Federal Government?


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Chit/Chat; Conspiracy; Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: cnn; harvey; hurricane; lies
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To: ican'tbelieveit

“by innuendo, they are claiming it is footage of C-19”

Nonsense. They made no such claim, by innuendo or otherwise. The use of stock footage on television news is ubiquitous and if your argument held any water, you should have been upset about this kind of thing long, long before the Covid-19 outbreak.


21 posted on 04/23/2020 1:44:38 PM PDT by Boogieman
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

I could go out today and take video of people shopping without face masks or social distancing. So I could just as well make the claim that a photo of a man with a mask shopping is “intentionally deceitful”.

But both claims would still be bogus.


22 posted on 04/23/2020 1:46:02 PM PDT by Boogieman
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To: Boogieman

Stock footage: An article about me giving a speech somewhere and you used stock footage of me giving a speech.

Implying there are lines at the store by using an image of lines that were a result of a completely different event: FAKE NEWS. Because there are NO LINES.


23 posted on 04/23/2020 1:47:06 PM PDT by ican'tbelieveit
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To: ican'tbelieveit

“Implying there are lines at the store by using an image of lines that were a result of a completely different event: FAKE NEWS.”

I guess you can try and make that stretch, but without the accompanying story to show that they actually are saying that this photo is proof of lines outside a store, that’s some pretty weak sauce.


24 posted on 04/23/2020 1:50:15 PM PDT by Boogieman
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To: Boogieman

Problem is, Boogieman, they used an individuals image and FACE without his permission. THAT is a problem.


25 posted on 04/23/2020 1:52:29 PM PDT by MeneMeneTekelUpharsin (Freedom is the freedom to discipline yourself so others don't have to do it for you.)
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To: Boogieman

So, showing footage of a Wuhan flu hospital ward, in Italy, and saying it’s NY, is okay by you, too?


26 posted on 04/23/2020 1:56:00 PM PDT by Jane Long (Praise God, from whom ALL blessings flow.)
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To: Boogieman

Are you seriously defending CNN?

That is some pretty weak sauce.


27 posted on 04/23/2020 2:11:15 PM PDT by ican'tbelieveit
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To: ican'tbelieveit

Lol, the last refuge of someone who can’t make an argument, attack them for even daring to take a stance.


28 posted on 04/23/2020 2:16:19 PM PDT by Boogieman
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To: Boogieman

So you are defending the indefensible.


29 posted on 04/23/2020 2:19:46 PM PDT by apostoli ("When people get used to preferential treatment, equal treatment seems like discrimination." - Sowel)
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To: apostoli

No, I’m simply refusing to condemn CNN for some stupid thing that every single television news show in existence does every day.

I’ll condemn CNN for a million other things that they do that actually deserve condemnation, but using stock photos in the background of a new story?!? I’ll pass on that one.


30 posted on 04/23/2020 2:28:28 PM PDT by Boogieman
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To: Boogieman

Well, finger pointing right at the first person who went to that corner. YOU!


31 posted on 04/23/2020 2:35:33 PM PDT by ican'tbelieveit
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To: Jane Long

No, that would be intentional deception. That’s not what happened here, though, is it?


32 posted on 04/23/2020 2:49:17 PM PDT by Boogieman
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To: MeneMeneTekelUpharsin

Why is that a problem? It’s completely legal to use footage of anyone taken in a public place, with or without their permission.


33 posted on 04/23/2020 2:50:19 PM PDT by Boogieman
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To: ican'tbelieveit

Huh? When did I do that?

Quote the post or it didn’t happen.


34 posted on 04/23/2020 2:51:43 PM PDT by Boogieman
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To: Boogieman

Showing Harvey grocery lines for China Flu virus grocery lines?

I’d say that’s pretty deceptive.

CNN needs to apologize.

They never do, that I know of. :(


35 posted on 04/23/2020 2:53:15 PM PDT by Jane Long (Praise God, from whom ALL blessings flow.)
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To: Jane Long

“Showing Harvey grocery lines for China Flu virus grocery lines?”

Well, that’s the difference here from your previous example. Did CNN actually SAY this was a picture of coronavirus grocery lines?

If so, then it would be the same as your previous example, and deceptive. If they didn’t, then it’s just a stock photo like any other stock photo, and if you assumed it was directly relevant to the story, then that is your mistake, and not CNN’s deception.

Sure, it could be that CNN is counting on people making such a mistake, but that’s still a far cry from your previous example of intentionally mislabeling one thing as something else.


36 posted on 04/23/2020 3:02:51 PM PDT by Boogieman
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To: Boogieman

😂 🙄 🙃


37 posted on 04/23/2020 3:04:48 PM PDT by Jane Long (Praise God, from whom ALL blessings flow.)
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Propagandists weaving their own Nooses thread by tread.

The backlash against these betrayers will be terrible.

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38 posted on 04/23/2020 3:38:20 PM PDT by elbook
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To: elbook
The backlash against these betrayers will be terrible.

Yes.

39 posted on 04/23/2020 4:09:24 PM PDT by MeneMeneTekelUpharsin (Freedom is the freedom to discipline yourself so others don't have to do it for you.)
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