ABC News confuses Marion Barry with judge suing over a lost pair of pants
TVNewser spotted this report on NewsBusters:
As anchor Charles Gibson teased a Tuesday World News story, about DC administrative law judge Roy Pearson‘s
$54 million lawsuit against a Korean family’s Washington, DC dry
cleaning establishment over losing a pair of his pants, viewers saw
video of what clearly appeared to be ex-DC Mayor Marion Barry.
ABC has posted a correction (though it’s not labeled as one):
Tuesday’s 6:30 pm, ET feed of "World News" mistakenly used video in
the program’s open of DC council member Marion Barry instead of Roy
Pearson. We immediately recognized the error and corrected all
subsequent feeds of the broadcast. We are deeply sorry for this mistake
and apologize to Mr. Barry, Mr. Pearson, and to our viewers for the
error. Link
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