Fox News misrepresents Greek riots as Moscow election protests!
MOSCOW, Russia - December 9, 2011 - U.S. TV channel Fox News tried to pass off riots in the Greek capital Athens as protests against the results of Russian parliamentary elections in Moscow, the Rossiya 24 television channel reported.
As is seen on videos posted on YouTube as well as on the Rossiya 24 website, the December 7 report covering a protest rally in the Russian capital starts from footage made in Athens, with palm trees, streets on fire, policemen who do not look like their Russian colleagues, and words in Greek in the background. Later on, however, the channel shows some real footage from Moscow.
The video was also available on the Fox News website, but it has apparently been removed and does not open now.
John Stack, VP of Fox News Newsgathering, confirmed that an error was made and that the video has since been removed and measures will be taken to prevent this from again happening.
Russia held elections to the State Duma on December 4. The ruling United Russia party won with nearly half of the vote, followed by the Communist Party with 19.2%, A Just Russia, 13.25%, and the Liberal Democrats, 12%. Other parties were unable to clear the 7% election threshold.
