(12-26-2020, 11:46 PM)Ninurta Wrote: ...Yup, I concur - "fake news".
Just to make sure our friendly woods-runner doesn't think such dubious reporting is rare, here's another.
It's a weird one. The BBC related a news item at 8.10.am (GMT) on Sunday morning 27th December 2020 that the Prime Minister
of the Czech Republic, Andrej Babis had received the vaccine and showed footage of the task. The actual main thrust of the story
was that Europe had launched a continent-wide vaccination programme and the EU is the group organising it.
The video of Prime Minister Babis just made good optics.
One may presume it's a promotional article with optics to indicate leadership and trust in the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine.
Here's an still from the procedure.
Andrej Babis receiving the miracle vaccine.
Then later on the same morning, I switched on the 24-hour BBC news channel at 10.11.am (GMT) and the Presenter (Ben Brown,
I looked him up!) offered some breaking news that the Prime Minister of the Czech Republic, Andrej Babis had just received his
Covid vaccination moments before and again, showed the same footage.
BBC Presenter Ben Brown.
A search on the BBC news website -using the Czech-Republic Prime Minister's name, failed to bring up any article about the injection
regarding the leader. However, on the Sky News website, it shows a video of Andrej Babis being injected with the vaccine and the
time indicator states Sunday 27 December 2020 09:02, UK!
Link To Sky News Report:
Even the 'ExPats -CZ' website has a similar article -plus updates of: Published on 27.12.2020 09:55 (updated on 27.12.2020)
Being one hour ahead of the UK, this would make sense considering image-capture, the writing of the piece and publishing it.
But why did the BBC report the Covid-Czech article earlier in the morning on the Breakfast News programme and then announce
the same news as breaking two hours later?!
Desperate and dying? Let us only hope.
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