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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsFox's Maria Bartiromo Falsely Reports 241,000 US Deaths as Result of Afghanistan War
The graphics department that serves Fox News' "Mornings With Maria" made a significant mistake when it created a completely
false on-air visual that claimed that 241,000 Americans have died as a result of the Afghanistan War. Anyone with a rudimentary knowledge of US history knows thats not correct, but the vetting process at Fox Business didnt seem to catch this rather glaring mistake.
During a conversation about the trillion-dollar budget plans by the Biden administration, which includes a relatively landmark bipartisan supported infrastructure bill, producers put up a graphic that listed the true cost of the Afghanistan war, which claimed that 241,000 US Deaths. The graphic cites Brown Universitys Cost of War Project.
But as one can clearly read from the report, the 241,000 deaths are not US citizens as the Mornings With Maria graphic speciously claimed. Over 6,000 US citizens lost their lives during the two-decade-long war, according to the Brown University report ...
Mediaite has reached out to Fox Business for comment and will update the post if we hear back.
https://www.mediaite.com/tv/maria-bartiromo-falsely-reports-241000-us-deaths-as-result-of-afghanistan-war/
SWBTATTReg
(21,859 posts)Kid Berwyn
(14,653 posts)Accidentally stating something false as truth is misinformation.
Intentionally stating something false as truth is disinformation.
Going by history, its the latter.
Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(107,112 posts)TheBlackAdder
(28,077 posts)DeeNice
(574 posts)lpbk2713
(42,697 posts)Don't blink. You might miss it.
robbob
(3,514 posts)Or are they going to blame Biden for all of them?
DeeNice
(574 posts)his ass first hit the chair behind the resolute desk.
JHB
(37,133 posts)Ohio Joe
(21,656 posts)heh.... hehehehehehehehe..... Bwaaaaahahahahahahahahahahahaha
Too funny
TheBlackAdder
(28,077 posts)genxlib
(5,508 posts)Initech
(99,915 posts)jaxexpat
(6,703 posts)Then they remembered who they were, where they worked, the sizes of their bank accounts, etc. and it was off to the lie races.
SNAFU: Situation normal, all foxed up.
Vinca
(50,172 posts)thanks to the negligent handling (or, rather, nonhandling) of Covid.
KG
(28,749 posts)TheAnnoyedAgnostic
(34 posts)alfredo
(60,066 posts)rpannier
(24,304 posts)That's their answer for everything