Chris Menahan
InformationLiberation
CBS News is being accused of using manipulative editing after airing footage from a struggling hospital in Italy in a piece discussing the threat of the coronavirus spreading in New York City.
Some are suggesting the out of context footage was aired to hype the threat of the coronavirus while others are saying it’s just stock footage to show a worst case scenario.
The footage aired Wednesday on CBS This Morning:
“New York’s Governor says FEMA gave the state 400 ventilators,” CBS correspondent David Begnaud says as the footage is aired. “To that [Gov. Cuomo] said this: ‘What am I going to do with 400 ventilators when I need 30,000? You pick the 26,000 who are going to die because you only sent 400 ventilators!'”
As The Gateway Pundit reports, the footage is an exact match of this piece from Italy that Sky News aired on March 22:
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