In December 2023, an excerpt from the live broadcast of the American television channel was dispersed on the Internet, where the US president’s photo was allegedly shown in the plot of a suspect of harassment to the child. We decided to check if this was in reality.
In a 12-second video clip, the presenter reads the news: "The 71-year-old man was accused of improperly touched a 12-year-old girl in the Walmart store in West Mofflin on Sunday day." At that moment, she has a photograph of American president Joe Biden behind her on the screen. Some Russian media told about the embarrassment of journalists (Life, "Tsargrad","Morning South"And others) and Information resources. The fact that the television channel was mistakenly, and possibly, intentionally "put Bayden with a pedophile was also written by users of social networks ("VKontakte" X, Facebook). The news was especially popular in Telegram, where the video was published "Putin in Telegram"(134,000 views at the time of writing this analysis), Voblya (113,000), "Yakov Kedmi"(87 000),"Cartridge"(46,000) and other channels.
Judging by the logo on the video, the fragment was taken from the air of the regional American television channel WTAE-TV PITTSBURGH. "Verified" failed to find the desired news release in the official accounts of the channel in YouTube and in social networks. However, WTAE-TV PittSburgh does not post full direct broadcasts on the Internet (only small reports, mainly from the scene), and in the viral video the release will clearly be transferred from the TV screen. It could be assumed that the channel simply did not want to publish a release with a blunder on the air.
The incident who was devoted to the news, happened On February 28, 2022-then the 71-year-old man was really accused of grabbing a 12-year-old girl for the buttocks in one of the Walmart shopping chain stores in the West Mifflin, Pennsylvania. The police detained the offender, and on the same day the media showed his photo. Talked about this news and on site WTAE-TV PITTSBURGH. There is no video clip from the air to the news, instead there is a 30-second video with sunbathing text, possibly prepared specifically for the site and/or social networks (unlike live broadcast, there is no watch and running line on the dick in the lower part of the video).
In a viral video under Biden’s photo on the screen behind the leading news there is an inscription: “State of the Union Tonight”. This is the announcement of the planned broadcast of the Message of the American President to Congress, which he announced On March 1, 2022 (probably on this day, an embarrassment occurred on the air). That is, the employees of the television channel, apparently, did not confuse the politician with the accused (otherwise the text under the photo was different), and by mistake they displayed the prepared announcement instead of the cover material to the news.
The earliest case of the publication of the video, which “verified” was found, is fast In the social network X (then - Twitter) @Guyfrees, posted on the evening of March 1, 2022. The video quickly scattered along social networks with ironic signatures, some media wrote about it (for example, Washington Examiner), and the TV channel Sky News Australia A few days later, he even showed it in his outsiders show. The host of the program Rowen Dean commented on the oversight of colleagues: "This happens on the air."
According to the TGSTAT service, in December 2023, the first about the embarrassment of American journalists of a half year ago was remembered the Telegram channel "Crimea of the media". Despite the fact that the post scored only 49 views (at the time of writing of the analysis), it was there that the video was published first of all - December 12, 2023 at 9:16 Moscow time. Within a few hours, the video was posted by many other pro-Russian Telegram channels, including much larger ones.
Thus, on one of the regional American television channels, an embarrassment really occurred-during a report on a man accused of harassing a teenage girl, Bayden's future performance was taken on a screen in the studio behind the TV presenter. His photos were not confused with the image of the pedophile - the graphics with the announcement of the president’s speech had nothing to do with the read -off news. This happened back in March 2022, while many Russian-speaking Internet users publish a video as relevant.
Photo on the cover: screenshot video Guyfrees (X)
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