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staged scene in the Israel/Palestine-conflict

Is this real? If so, I wonder if that will make it into the article (: --Yukterez (talk) 21:55, 10 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

I doubt that the audio overlay of someone "coaching" the scene is real. But if any reliable sources report on it, you could bring those up here to get consensus for inclusion. Schazjmd (talk) 22:02, 10 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Ward faced past controversies, including accusations of fabricating a live report...

This line lacks context that is included in the source referenced by the secondary source used in this wikipedia article (which should really have been used to reference the issue). That context being that the claim of fabricating the report was debunked as a fake and admitted to have has the audio edited by the original creator of the fake.

This is the link to the source cited by the article referenced in this wikipedia article. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12630511/CNN-Clarissa-Ward-Israel-Gaza.html

The way the article reads right now implies that her reporting is possibly fabricated and therefore unreliable, when in fact all she is reputably accused of is misstating "women and children" as "civilians". 121.74.242.124 (talk) 12:19, 23 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

She's been accused of fabricating again, this time in her report of the freeing of political prisoners in Damascus after the fall of the Assad regime in December 2024. Having failed to find anyone to interview from the notorious Saydnaya prison in Damascus she miraculously finds inside an unnamed prison a single man hiding under a blanket claiming to have been locked up 3 months with no water for 5 days, but looking surprisingly healthy and well groomed.

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1867070374623707166.html Jiver2 (talk) 12:54, 13 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Her article is too positive of her

She's deliberately staged multiple reports but conveniently none of that has made it in to the article. @Schazjmd why did you revert my edit? Do you work for CNN or something?

If you were honest you would edit my changes instead of reverting them to make them more neutral, as you said I need to write them more neutrally. Why remove them completely and keep Ward's image clean?

About the Sednaya report: Single-person cells are way tinier than that, it's obvious they took a group cell and used it to stage his "release". He's also healthy looking and unbruised and I doubt he was in there any longer than a day. Real prisoners weigh 30 or 40 kilos, not a healthy 50 or 60 as he is. Assuming he's a higher floor cellmate, he would already be free, because they already searched every cell easily accessible in a day or 2 of reaching the prison. The remaining cells are secret cells and lower floor cells. This is neither.

The only cells left by the time she made her article would be lower floor cells and secret ones, which are even smaller, single-person cells, where you're not allowed clothes, much less a cover, as well as less food, and where you're beaten regularly. There are no marks of any of that on him. That assumes any are even still alive by then, it's been more than a week without water or food or even oxygen for them. The smell of corpses would make it impossible to go through any further but she's fine somehow. 2001:8F8:1621:2678:6CF1:1979:7AD3:8998 (talk) 17:10, 17 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

At quick glance the article seems to cover her flaws. --Hausa warrior (talk) 08:04, 22 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Controversy Section

The stagging section should go into a controversy section. It really doesn't need to be hidden in a title called CNN . CNN what? Work at CNN? It is vague. The more I look the more I am seeing she is known for Hollywood style antics in her coverage to enhance the DRAMA of the moment. I dont think the article reflects anything negative about her. Hausa warrior (talk) 07:55, 22 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]