French TV Channels Apologize for Airing Albanian Protest Footage as Paris and Lyon
Photo: Washington TimesTwo French news channels apologized this weekend after they wrongly presented images of protests in Albania as demonstrations taking place in France, including in Paris and Lyon. CNEWS made the mix-up first, on Saturday, while a mass march was getting underway peacefully in southern Paris. The second channel is not named in the available reports. Both channels backpedaled and apologized after the misidentification. The error came as protesters took to the streets in France for another weekend, continuing demonstrations that CBS News reported had gone on over previous weekends. The available reports do not say what the protests are about or how many people took part.
CBS News, the left-leaning outlet, carries a short piece headlined as French protests continuing for another weekend, with correspondent Leigh Kiniry reporting. Its excerpt centers on the street demonstrations themselves and does not mention the television mix-up, nor does it give figures, named officials or quotes. The right-leaning Washington Times leads with the media error instead. Its headline says French TV channels scrambled to apologize for airing Albanian protests as Paris and Lyon, and its text stresses that the channels backpedaled and misidentified the footage. It does not describe the protests beyond that. The two sides agree that protests in France continued over the weekend. They differ in focus: the left coverage reports the ongoing unrest, while the right coverage reports the broadcasters' mistake. The independent AP text matches the right-leaning version.
How the sides differ Left sources report the continuing French protests themselves; right sources focus on two TV channels apologizing for airing Albanian protest footage as French.
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CBS News briefly reports that protests in France continued for another weekend, with correspondent Leigh Kiniry reporting, and focuses on the street demonstrations rather than any broadcast error.
AP reports that CNEWS and another French channel apologized for airing Albanian protest images as French ones, noting the Saturday mix-up during a peaceful Paris march.
The Washington Times leads with the two French channels backpedaling and apologizing after misidentifying Albanian protest images as demonstrations in France, using the same account as AP.