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TV Reporter Denies Creating Fake Sand Storm…After Seemingly Being Caught Creating Fake Sand Storm

Journalism can be so tough sometimes. You can be working on a story for hours, days, weeks sometimes, only to find out at the last second that a tip was wrong, that things aren’t as they seem, or that you completely missed your window of opportunity. And that latter point seems to be what happened to a Romanian TV reporter sent to cover a sand storm. The only problem? He was a little late. But it appears he didn’t let that get into the way of his story.

Here’s what I mean (from the Austrian Times):

A red-faced TV reporter who thought he was onto a shore thing as he faked a sand storm when he missed the real thing has become a laughing stock in Romania after his cameraman let viewers in on the stunt.

Wait, what? Did the outlet just say he was caught “faking” a sand storm? Yes, and that his cameraman caught it on video:

If you can’t translate, here’s what the reporter is saying:

“The wind blows with incredible power, there are moments when it is impossible to stand up here.

“The wind blows the sand at over 60 km per hour. The wind blew away the beach umbrellas and the tourists had to leave in a hurry,” he added in the live report from the country’s Black Sea coast.

Romanian TV Reporter Creats Fake Sand Storm by Kicking Sand

Now after seeing the video and reading his quotes, you would think the reporter would come clean. But he’s not. Instead, he’s insisting it was all just a joke:

Yesterday the channel insisted the report was genuine.

The reporter claimed: “The report was not doctored in any way. It was a bad joke made by the cameraman.”

There seems to be little question in most people’s minds that it was fake. But lets play along for second. The question then becomes: Was the fake sandstorm being created (because there was a fake one being created) meant to appear to be the actual sandstorm, or was it simply a joke like he says?

And then that brings us to this point: sure the actual report was “genuine” — it wasn’t intended to be a gag — but then what’s most egregious is that the reporter seems to be faking a story during a genuine report. So the news agency and the reporter could be technically right. But that doesn‘t mean it wasn’t wrong.

Comments (39)

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  • bankerpapaw
    Posted on May 30, 2012 at 7:17pm

    Are you sure this wasn’t Matt Gutless, er Gutman? That lying little twerp does an awfully good job of
    lying through his teeth on the All Barack Channel.

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  • Secret Squirrel
    Posted on May 30, 2012 at 6:09pm

    .
    Isn’t that Jay Carney in his old job?

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  • jfriedri
    Posted on May 30, 2012 at 4:19pm

    Looks like he’s doing an interview to get on MSNBC or CNN. I think he’s got the right stuff to work there.

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  • PCsince1776
    Posted on May 30, 2012 at 2:50pm

    He must have learned this in Geraldo Rivera’s “Adding unnecessary drama to reporting news stories 101” class.

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  • hi
    Posted on May 30, 2012 at 2:25pm

    I got a good belly ache laugh out of that! LOL!!!
    I was in South Africa in the 80′s a similar thing happened. A bunch guys were hanging out and sitting down. When a TV camera came by, they’d jump up and act like they were rioting/ protesting.
    I’m sure this stuff happens a lot on the news.

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  • poster
    Posted on May 30, 2012 at 2:14pm

    What? The New York Times owns a Romanian TV outlet??

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    • JRook
      Posted on May 30, 2012 at 2:35pm

      Actually the analogy to what comes out of Fox and is repeated here is striking.

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    • dblaess
      Posted on May 30, 2012 at 5:27pm

      @JRook
      Posted on May 30, 2012 at 2:35pm
      Actually the analogy to what comes out of Fox and is repeated here is striking.
      —————————————————————————————————
      Actually the analogy to what come out of NBC news and a certain altering of a 911 tape. (i.e. the altering of 911 tape with Mr. Zimmerman). The repeating here is striking (Don’t your think George). What a stupid comment you put up you troll.

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  • South Philly Boy
    Posted on May 30, 2012 at 2:12pm

    As Usual…FRAUD

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  • Champflyer
    Posted on May 30, 2012 at 1:54pm

    60 mph wind? They’re 60 mph must be a lot lower then ours is in the US, it looked more like about 18 to 20 mph which would be a gentle breeze in West Texas, lol

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    • v15
      Posted on May 30, 2012 at 2:16pm

      60 km per hr = 37.5 mph.

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    • Champflyer
      Posted on May 30, 2012 at 8:50pm

      Oops, thanks V15, I was seeing km and thinking mph, but still in West Texas that would never make any of the news cast, now if you turned the numbers around to make it 73 mph it might make the news, lol

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  • RayOne
    Posted on May 30, 2012 at 1:35pm

    That wasn’t a member of the video crew kicking sand for the camera, it was a passer bye who thought the image needed something.
    (smile)

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  • BlackCrow
    Posted on May 30, 2012 at 12:50pm

    Used car salesmen, Politicians, Journalists? A race to the bottom.

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    • blackyb
      Posted on May 30, 2012 at 1:23pm

      He could get a job on most of these liberal networds in the U.S. He would fit in perfectly.

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  • RamonPreston
    Posted on May 30, 2012 at 12:47pm

    If they had “Re-enactment” posted on the bottom it would be okay.

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  • The Sergeant Major
    Posted on May 30, 2012 at 11:51am

    Slow news day

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    • oneshiner
      Posted on May 30, 2012 at 12:05pm

      You can fool some of the people some of the time, but you can’t fool ALL the people all the time.
      Who are these deceitful people who make up lies constantly? Oh! it’s our MSM

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    • johnjamison
      Posted on May 30, 2012 at 12:37pm

      Well technically it was the guy off camera createing the fake sand storm.

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  • Orpheus75
    Posted on May 30, 2012 at 11:47am

    LOL… 60 miles an hour…right. A) you can see the sand is only coming up in one small area, and in even or semi-even bursts, like someone is..eh hem.. kicking it up, or grapping handfuls and throwing it. B) Notice the leaves on the trees and bushes are barely moving, as well as his shirt. Heck, I get stronger winds up where I live almost daily, than what he’s experiencing.
    60 mph…that’s funny!
    Reminds me of the reporters down south that were trying to make out a flood to be MUCH bigger than it really was, as a small canoe goes by him standing in ankle deep water.

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    • Orpheus75
      Posted on May 30, 2012 at 11:53am

      “Grabbing” I mean

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    • v15
      Posted on May 30, 2012 at 2:19pm

      60 km per hour NOT 60 mph. aka 37.5 mph. How is everyone misreading this but me??

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  • thegreatcarnac
    Posted on May 30, 2012 at 11:35am

    The reporter said he was not lying since the guy kicking the sand is really named Sandstorm….Freddie Sandstorm.

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  • thibx
    Posted on May 30, 2012 at 11:29am

    that is why i don’t believe anything they say i check many sourses.

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  • ColoradoMaverick
    Posted on May 30, 2012 at 11:12am

    If he gets fired, the Obama 2012 campaign can hire him as their propaganda chief!

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  • lukerw
    Posted on May 30, 2012 at 11:02am

    Truth is derived from Meaning based upon a Philosophy! His Philosophy seems to be… Fluke the Stupid!

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  • TSUNAMI-22
    Posted on May 30, 2012 at 10:58am

    Wasn’t him……..

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bEovJYZsiDY

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  • Smokepole
    Posted on May 30, 2012 at 10:56am

    News SUCKS! Reporters are actors these days. So stinking fake and superficial.

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  • StopLyingToMe
    Posted on May 30, 2012 at 10:53am

    Nothing to see here. Maybe the reporter asked some guy to kick sand in the air, most likely some guy just started doing it for the fun of it and the cameraman shot some footage of him doing it. The cameraman, when seen onscreen, isn‘t acting like he’s in a dust storm. He’s not covering his face or wincing, or pretending sand is blowing in his face. This is a silly story.

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  • 65Mustang
    Posted on May 30, 2012 at 10:51am

    Reading the report sounds like something Jay Carney makes up as he goes along with some stupid answer about the WH (Obama).

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  • cristo52
    Posted on May 30, 2012 at 10:50am

    Hell, get him a job over at The Prison Channel, he’ll fit right in with Larry ODonald, Alfred Sharpton and Ed Schultz.

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  • AmericanStrega
    Posted on May 30, 2012 at 10:50am

    “….a shore thing.” Was that a play on words or just unedited?

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  • PETTYDRAMA
    Posted on May 30, 2012 at 10:47am

    Another pointless story from the “real news” on the blaze…LOL!

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  • brotherjohn
    Posted on May 30, 2012 at 10:47am

    I hear MSNBC is hiring. Could be a good opportunity.

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