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Uploaded on Friday 4 June, 2021 to the media circus |
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BBC World jumps the gun on skyscraper collapse |
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On 9/11, the BBC prematurely reported by more than twenty minutes the collapse of the Salomon Brothers building, 7 WTC. This gaffe was attributed in later years to a report put out by CNN, moments prior to the BBC report, announcing that the building was burning and could collapse, with the BBC extrapolating from that earlier report in its conclusions.
Richard Porter, the BBC's Director of Communications, would go on to say in 2007 that: “We no longer have the original tapes of our 9/11 coverage (for reasons of cock-up, not conspiracy)...†Source BBC |
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