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by yapcguy 4502 days ago
It's a fake and yet another black eye for CNN - the photo is from a movie!

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2014/02/18/theres-something-...

But wait, there's even more from CNN, like the photo of a 4 year old walking alone across the desert to escape the civil war, which wasn't.

http://www.cbc.ca/newsblogs/yourcommunity/2014/02/photo-of-s...

Can we use the word "propaganda" yet?

1 comments

> It's a fake and yet another black eye for CNN - the photo is from a movie!

As stated on your first link, the story was posted on a social network that CNN hosts, for which it is pretty easy for anyone to get an account. It's not labeled as news, and clearly labeled as not vetted by CNN. I don't see how this gives CNN a black eye.