News you won't be seeing on Fox: Murdoch-owned Sky TV suspends journalists over bogus story: If you live in the US, my guess is you won't be seeing news like this on broadcast/mass media, about how the Murdoch owned sattelite TV network falsified its reports in the Iraq war. The Guardian reports today that, "Sky News faked a television report from a Royal Navy submarine during the Iraq war, according to a documentary team that filmed on the same vessel.
The Sky report, which was 'security cleared' by a Ministry of Defence official and shown on at least one other British TV network, purported to show the preparation and firing of a cruise missile.
But the submarine was docked and the documentary crew says the events were staged for the benefit of Sky's camera.
Last night, after being alerted to the story by the Guardian, Sky launched an investigation and suspended the journalists involved.
The contested report will be shown as part of BBC2's Fighting the War series on Sunday, alongside footage of missiles being fired from HMS Splendid for real. "
Anyone else feeling like they are just getting 'security cleared' news, and not the real thing?
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