MORE FAKE NEWS: ABC’S BACKPACK STUNT
It just doesn’t end. Barcepundit has the scoop:
Shortly after March 11, ABC had a world exclusive: a photograph of the only backpack that hadn’t exploded and which had ‘m[y]steriously’ appeared the night after the blasts in a police station, in a room where all personal belongings that had been recovered were carried to. The problem: according to Madrid’s newspaper El Mundo, it’s a staged photo op:
The American TV network ABC’s news division showed a false image of the backpack that did not explode on March 11, 2004, according to reporter Fernando Múgica in the Spanish daily El Mundo. According to Múgica, at a Madrid police station “the officers wanted to help the ABC reporters, but when the camera crew came, they didn’t have the backpack that had contained the bomb there, so one of the officers showed them a similar backpack which was the property of another officer.” Said Mugica, “I don’t know whether the network knew this or simply accepted that the bag they were shown was the real one.”
Barcepundit notes that the ABC News story has been pulled from its website–without explanation.
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