Did CBS News Use Footage from Italy for New York COVID-19 Report?







The news outlet acknowledged the error, but that wasn't the end of the story.







































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['A CBS News program used a brief clip from an Italian hospital in a segment about the coronavirus crisis in New York City.', 'On March 25, 2020, the “CBS This Morning” news program aired a segment described in a teaser as “Desperation in New York as coronavirus cases there continue to skyrocket”:', 'That segment, which aired above a chyron reading “AMERICA’S EPICENTER — New York Now Accounts for More than Half of New U.S. Cases,” featured a brief clip of Dr. Deborah Birx, the Coronavirus Response Coordinator for the White House Coronavirus Task Force, declaring that, “We remain deeply concerned about New York City and the New York metro area.” Then a narrator related the following information while scenes showing hospital personnel, equipment, and patients played on the screen:', 'NARRATOR: That is because more than half of the nation’s new coronavirus cases are being found right here. Crowded subway cars may have accelerated the spread. New York’s governor says FEMA gave the state 400 ventilators. To that he said this:', 'GOV. ANDREW CUOMO: “What am I going to do with 400 ventilators when I need 30,000? You pick the 26,000 people who are going to die because you only sent 400 ventilators.”', 'NARRATOR: The governor now projects that the state will need up to 140,000 beds, with an additional 40,000 ICU beds. Across the river from New York, at Holy Name Medical Center in New Jersey, the chief infectious disease specialists says his hospital has just ten ventilators. Barely enough for now.', '', '', 'During a Pandemic it is essential that the Media gives us real and accurate information.', 'It’s completely irresponsible for @CBSNews to use footage from an Italian Hospital when talking about the outbreak in New York City.', 'This is unacceptable. pic.twitter.com/Essp4uEHle', '— ALX 🇺🇸 (@alx) March 30, 2020', '', 'CBS News acknowledged the error. A spokesperson said, “It was an editing mistake. We took immediate steps to remove it from all platforms and shows.”', 'A week later, however, CBS News apparently used a very brief bit of that Italian footage again while referencing coronavirus cases in Pennsylvania:', 'After @CBSNews was called out for airing footage of a hospital in Italy and saying it was New York, they apologized and said it was an error.', 'Less than a week later, they aired the same footage, this time when talking about Pennsylvania.', '(h/t @lieggiji) pic.twitter.com/omTu6twgPm', '— ALX 🇺🇸 (@alx) April 8, 2020', '', 'Wulfsohn, Joseph A. \xa0 “CBS News Admits ‘Mistake’ After Airing Footage of Overcrowded Italian Hospital in Report About NYC.”\n\xa0 \xa0 Fox News. \xa0 30 March 2020.', 'Ramsay, Stuart. \xa0 “Coronavirus: Italy’s Hardest-Hit City Wants You To See How COVID-19 Is Affecting Its Hospitals.”\n\xa0 \xa0 Sky News. \xa0 22 March 2020.', 'Brown, Lee. \xa0 “CBS Admits To Using Footage from Italy in NYC Coronavirus Report.”\n\xa0 \xa0 New York Post. \xa0 1 April 2020.', 'Rumors about antifa plotting violence have coincided with the month of July and Gettysburg before.', 'A complete story is rarely told in a headline.', 'Social media rumors that two memorials in New York were vandalized proved misleading.', 'In August 2019, a 23-year-old unarmed Black man died after an encounter with police officers in Aurora, Colorado.', 'A chaotic scene in St. Louis sparked outrage, memes, and confusion.', 'Socialite Ghislaine Maxwell was arrested on sex abuse charges connected to convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein.', 'The white supremacist group made frequent use of the slogan more recently embraced by President Donald Trump, though they did not, as some claim, invent it.', "The question of past arrests often surfaces among people who want to rationalize police officers' actions when Black men are killed in custody.", 'You can claim anything if you remove the barrier of evidence.', 'Rumors about antifa plotting violence have coincided with the month of July and Gettysburg before.', '© 1995 - 2020 by Snopes Media Group Inc.', 'This material may not be reproduced without permission.', 'Snopes and the Snopes.com logo are registered service marks of Snopes.com']
Did CBS News Use Footage from Italy for New York COVID-19 Report?