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According to the New York Post, CBS was aware of the Italy/New York video issue. Over the past months videos have been taken all over the world of hospitals, patients, etc… CBS claims it was a complete oversight and small mistake.
It is not clear as to why the CBS news company used Italian hospital footage in place of actual footage in New York. However, because the Italian hospital was extremely busy and full of patients, this “mistake” just so happens to fall in line with the sensationalized message “New York’s Hospitals Are Busy” or “Overrun” or “Warzones” as ICU doctors are claiming. We all know bad things are happening, but there must be vigilant reporting on facts even more so in this time.
Why do these mistakes always seem to air on the side of sensationalism and fear mongering?
About The News – Being accurate and truthful matters. It matters what videos you use and what pictures you display. When you report on an event, it matters if the witnesses are real and that the story you told was not just one sided. ” – Christopher Kemmett
It is true that New York has become the epicenter of the coronavirus outbreak in the USA. Statistics all over the world prove that. In fact, the amount of deaths in New York City may very well surpass every other country dealing with the pandemic.
Why then wouldn’t CBS have actual footage inside of NYC hospitals? They probably do, but didn’t care to review their work for mistakes, as they seem to be cramming and pushing content out as fast as possible. Their goal is to force as many stories as they can through your timeline.
CBS is short staffed and has laid off hundreds maybe thousands of employees.
They have been cutting a half of a billion dollars out of the CBS’s overhead since August of 2019. There are clearly going to be quality issues, organizational disputes, staffing shortages and layoffs, etc… in the months ahead.
The reality of this story is what is exactly what it seems.
There was an actual mistake made by CBS. They are operating with a quantity over quality mantra.
Could this mistake have been avoided? Possibly, but with the amount of layoffs in recent times, it is likely there are not enough people on payroll to check work and double checks, are out of the question.
“Layoffs were always expected to result from the VCBS-Viacom merger. The combined entity was anticipating $500 million in “cost savings,” — which often means layoffs — as far back as August 2019″ from the Indie Wire
Hollywood Reporter – “CBS-Viacom Merger Targets $500M in Cost Savings, But From Where?”
As of today 4/17/2020 there is a 48% chance that CBS will be going bankrupt, according to Macroaxis, a financial technology company out of San Francisco. https://www.macroaxis.com/invest/ratio/CBS–Probability-Of-Bankruptcy
CBS Airs Video Of Nurse “Acting”
A video of a very distraught nurse, crying and panting, was aired by CBS in such a way, it seemed as though CBS interviewed and was working directly with this nurse.
According to Chrissy Clark, at The Federalist, CBS recently aired fake videos of a nurse under stressful conditions, crying about the coronavirus.
Below are additional tweets CBS sent out after their original release of the video. It is clear they are attempting to “clarify” or explain away once again why their so-called reporting is being publicly shamed as fake.
It seems the testimony taken from this nurse was twisted by some alternative motives and incomplete truths, or ‘alternative facts’.
It would seem like CBS is flailing as a news organization.
CBS Aired the Fake Hospital Footage TWICE!
It appears as though CBS aired the video of the Italian hospital again when reporting on a hospital in Philadelphia. The entire situation has been reported on closely by Breitbart.
It is obvious at this point that the checks and balances for quality publishing material is immaterial at CBS…
It is beyond sad when the “News” is actually fake because the publisher has zero competence and cannot complete simple publishing feats like aligning the correct video with the correct audio.
May the modern wave of alternative news crush these dinosaurs sooner than later.
SOURCES
- https://twitter.com/
- https://nypost.com/2020/04/01/cbs-admits-to-using-footage-from-italy-in-report-about-nyc/
- https://www.newsweek.com/hospital-brooklyn-looks-like-war-zone-emergency-room-doctor-says-were-fighting-our-own-1495007
- https://www.indiewire.com/2020/02/pop-tv-viacomcbs-layoffs-1202214541/
- https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/cbs-viacom-merger-targets-500m-cost-savings-but-1229570
- https://www.macroaxis.com/invest/ratio/CBS–Probability-Of-Bankruptcy
- https://thefederalist.com/2020/04/06/cbs-news-posts-fraudulent-video-icu-nurse-crying-over-poor-working-conditions/
- https://www.breitbart.com/the-media/2020/04/09/cbs-news-caught-broadcasting-fake-hospital-footage-second-time/
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