NBC rocked by new huge scandal

[A Perez]

In a new scandal that is being called worse than the Brian Williams Scandal, NBC pretended that forces allied to Syrian President Assad kidnapped one of its journalists, when in fact the kidnapping was perpetrated by anti-Assad forces.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/16/b...-correspondents-kidnapping-in-syria.html?_r=0

NBC reporter changes kidnapping story - CNN Video

 

[NoTeaPartyPleez]

Oh please, the only scandal is your amazing ignorance......Read the story, and don't miss this paragraph:

"""Mr. Engel and his team underwent a harrowing ordeal, and it is a common tactic for kidnappers in war zones to intentionally mislead hostages as to their identity."""

 

[Luddly Neddite]

NBC News on Wednesday revised its account of the 2012 kidnapping of its chief foreign correspondent, Richard Engel, saying it was likely that Mr. Engel and his reporting team had been abducted by a Sunni militant group, not forces affiliated with the government of President Bashar al-Assad of Syria.

In a statement posted on the NBC News website Wednesday evening, Mr. Engel said that a review of the episode — prompted by reporting from The New York Times — had led him to conclude that “the group that kidnapped us was Sunni, not Shia.” He also wrote that the abductors had “put on an elaborate ruse to convince us they were Shiite shabiha militiamen.”


Hardly a scandal. Its not as though terrorists show their ID.

How about the nutters just be glad they were not killed?

 

[Luddly Neddite]

In a new scandal that is being called worse than the Brian Williams Scandal, NBC pretended that forces allied to Syrian President Assad kidnapped one of its journalists, when in fact the kidnapping was perpetrated by anti-Assad forces.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/16/b...-correspondents-kidnapping-in-syria.html?_r=0

NBC reporter changes kidnapping story - CNN Video

EXACTLY WHO is calling this "worse than the Brian Williams scandal"?

Where is the proof that "NBC pretended ..." anything at all?

 

[NoTeaPartyPleez]

Massive, epic thread fail on a level of unprecedented proportions.

 

[A Perez]

In a new scandal that is being called worse than the Brian Williams Scandal, NBC pretended that forces allied to Syrian President Assad kidnapped one of its journalists, when in fact the kidnapping was perpetrated by anti-Assad forces.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/16/b...-correspondents-kidnapping-in-syria.html?_r=0

NBC reporter changes kidnapping story - CNN Video

EXACTLY WHO is calling this "worse than the Brian Williams scandal"?

Where is the proof that "NBC pretended ..." anything at all?

Several in NBC knew the truth a long time ago. Yet they let the article stay uncorrected until they learned that NYT Was going to expose them..

That's pretending. From The New York Times:

NBC executives were informed of Mr. Ajouj and Mr. Qassab’s possible involvement during and after Mr. Engels’s captivity, according to current and former NBC employees and others who helped search for Mr. Engel, including political activists and security professionals. Still, the network moved quickly to put Mr. Engel on the air with an account blaming Shiite captors and did not present the other possible version of events.