“ABC’s Diane Sawyer committed an egregious error Wednesday night during her introduction of an ABC World News segment on the latest from Israel and the Gaza Strip.
Sawyer, in her waning months as host as the flagship evening news program, misidentified a Palestinian family as Israeli — a massive mistake in a conflict where divisions run deep.
“We take you overseas now to the rockets raining down on Israel today as Israel tried to shoot them out of the sky,” Sawyer says in her introduction as producers show video footage of Israeli airstrikes on Gaza.”* The Young Turks hosts Ana Kasparian and Ben Mankiewicz (Turner Classic Movies) break it down.
*Read more here from Brian Ries / Mashable: http://mashable.com/2014/07/10/abc-diane-sawyer-palestinian-family-israeli/
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How can you say that the people that think that ABC did this on purpose are ridiculous, when you report on a daily basis how these organisations do this on purpose all the time. to obfuscate the information and spread propaganda as truth. If Noam Chomsky was asked this question I am positive he would think this is done on purpose. Would you call him ridiculous. Since he tells the world all the time how the media does this sort of thing on purpose.