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OOPS BY ABC'S GIBSON: 'A MILLION AND A HALF AMERICANS WERE KILLED BY OTTOMAN TURKS'
By Brent Baker
NewsBusters
Oct 11 2007
The MRC's Brad Wilmouth alerted me to a slip of the tongue Wednesday
night by ABC anchor Charles Gibson, who didn't catch and correct his
error -- at least in the 6:30pm EDT feed of World News. In a brief
item on the congressional resolution labeling a 1915 massacre of
Armenians as "genocide," Gibson inadvertently said "Americans" instead:
Hard to believe, but there was a political fight in Washington today
over something that happened 92 years ago. In 1915, as many as a
million and a half Americans were killed by Ottoman Turks...
Video clip (20 secs): Real (600 KB) or Windows Media (700 KB), plus
MP3 audio (100 KB)
AdvertisementBack in June a NewsBusters item, with video, recounted
how ABC News producers confused ex-Washington, DC Mayor Marion Barry
with the man suing a dry cleaner for $54 million over lost pants:
Do all balding black guys look the same to ABC News? As anchor
Charles Gibson teased a Tuesday, June 12 World News story, about DC
administrative law judge Roy Pearson's $54 million lawsuit against a
Korean family's Washington, DC dry cleaning establishment over losing
a pair of his pants, viewers saw video of what clearly appeared to
be ex-DC Mayor Marion Barry. Gibson announced, over video of Barry in
front of the DC courthouse, "Pant Suit: Ever lost anything at the dry
cleaners? This man did, and claims he deserves $54 million dollars
and he's not pulling your leg."
Barry is now a member of the District's City Council, but he has
been in some legal trouble of late over charges of driving under the
influence, and thus has recently visited the local courthouse.
Gibson's brief report in full on the October 10 World News (6:30pm
EDT feed as carried by Washington, DC's WJLA-TV):
Hard to believe, but there was a political fight in Washington today
over something that happened 92 years ago. In 1915, as many as a
million and a half Americans were killed by Ottoman Turks. Scholars
call it genocide. A resolution in Congress right now wants the U.S.,
after all these years, to call it genocide. But today, the President,
the Secretary of Defense and nine Secretaries of State, past and
present, urged Congress to vote no on the resolution, arguing it would
do great harm to U.S. relations with Turkey, a crucial U.S. ally and
neighbor of Iraq. It is history colliding with today's foreign policy.
-Brent Baker is Vice President for Research and Publications at the
Media Research Center
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/brent-baker/2 007/10/10/oops-abcs-gibson-million-half-americans- were-killed-ottoman-turks
By Brent Baker
NewsBusters
Oct 11 2007
The MRC's Brad Wilmouth alerted me to a slip of the tongue Wednesday
night by ABC anchor Charles Gibson, who didn't catch and correct his
error -- at least in the 6:30pm EDT feed of World News. In a brief
item on the congressional resolution labeling a 1915 massacre of
Armenians as "genocide," Gibson inadvertently said "Americans" instead:
Hard to believe, but there was a political fight in Washington today
over something that happened 92 years ago. In 1915, as many as a
million and a half Americans were killed by Ottoman Turks...
Video clip (20 secs): Real (600 KB) or Windows Media (700 KB), plus
MP3 audio (100 KB)
AdvertisementBack in June a NewsBusters item, with video, recounted
how ABC News producers confused ex-Washington, DC Mayor Marion Barry
with the man suing a dry cleaner for $54 million over lost pants:
Do all balding black guys look the same to ABC News? As anchor
Charles Gibson teased a Tuesday, June 12 World News story, about DC
administrative law judge Roy Pearson's $54 million lawsuit against a
Korean family's Washington, DC dry cleaning establishment over losing
a pair of his pants, viewers saw video of what clearly appeared to
be ex-DC Mayor Marion Barry. Gibson announced, over video of Barry in
front of the DC courthouse, "Pant Suit: Ever lost anything at the dry
cleaners? This man did, and claims he deserves $54 million dollars
and he's not pulling your leg."
Barry is now a member of the District's City Council, but he has
been in some legal trouble of late over charges of driving under the
influence, and thus has recently visited the local courthouse.
Gibson's brief report in full on the October 10 World News (6:30pm
EDT feed as carried by Washington, DC's WJLA-TV):
Hard to believe, but there was a political fight in Washington today
over something that happened 92 years ago. In 1915, as many as a
million and a half Americans were killed by Ottoman Turks. Scholars
call it genocide. A resolution in Congress right now wants the U.S.,
after all these years, to call it genocide. But today, the President,
the Secretary of Defense and nine Secretaries of State, past and
present, urged Congress to vote no on the resolution, arguing it would
do great harm to U.S. relations with Turkey, a crucial U.S. ally and
neighbor of Iraq. It is history colliding with today's foreign policy.
-Brent Baker is Vice President for Research and Publications at the
Media Research Center
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/brent-baker/2 007/10/10/oops-abcs-gibson-million-half-americans- were-killed-ottoman-turks