Here Are the Biggest Stories the Media Got Wrong in 2020
BOOM did 40 unique fact checks on misreporting or false reporting by news channels, websites and agencies between January 1 and December 24, 2020. The results reveal misreporting on several national issues.
File photo of Indian press photographers. Photo: Reuters
Politics30/Dec/2020
The year of 2020 saw some major eventsâ the outbreak of a global pandemic, fatal clashes between India and China for the first time in four decades, and the tragic death of actor Sushant Singh Rajput, to name a few. While these events were mostly well-reported on, there were certain instances when the mainstream media went a few steps too far and spread misleading or false information.
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USS John S. McCain Expelled From South China Sea, Claims Chinese Military
On 12/23/20 at 6:13 AM EST
The Chinese military said it expelled the
USS John S. McCain from the South China Sea after the U.S. Navy destroyer trespassed in the disputed waters of the Spratly Islands.
The Pentagon denied the People s Liberation Army s version of events, telling
Newsweek that its freedom of navigation operation was done in accordance with international law, and that interactions with the Chinese Navy had no impact on its mission.
China claims historic rights over almost all of the islands in the South China Sea and their surrounding waters. In 2016, it rejected a Permanent Court of Arbitration ruling stating the opposite.
An aircraft carrier group led by China’s newest carrier, the Shandong, sailed through the Taiwan Strait on its way to routine drills in the South China Sea, China’s navy said on Monday, after Taiwan mobilised its forces to monitor the convoy.
The Shandong sailed through the Taiwan Strait a day after a US warship passed through the same stretch of sea.
China’s navy said the Shandong and its accompanying ships had “smoothly” travelled through the sensitive Taiwan Strait on Sunday, heading for exercises in the South China Sea, where China has made extensive territorial claims in the disputed waters.
2020/12/21 11:00 China s aircraft carrier the Shandong. China s aircraft carrier the Shandong. (AP photo) TAIPEI (Taiwan News) The Taiwanese military deployed multiple aircraft and ships to monitor China’s first indigenous aircraft carrier the Shandong as it transited through the Taiwan Strait on Sunday (Dec. 20). The Shandong was accompanied by four escort vessels as it left the Chinese port of Dalian on Dec. 17 and sailed south, transiting through the strait, Taiwan’s Ministry of National Defense (MND) said in a statement Sunday. In response, the Taiwan Navy sent six ships, while the Air Force mobilized eight planes to monitor the Chinese carrier group during their transit, CNA reported.