St. Louis Station Accused of Airing ‘False and Misleading’ Story After Adding Out-of-Context Soundbite

CBS affiliate KMOV has been accused of false and misleading coverage that “breaks the tenets of journalism” after it cut and pasted a story together out of context.

Here’s how it all started: Last week, KMOV aired a story where it interviewed state auditor Scott Fitzpatrick on his preliminary investigation into how SLDC awarded COVID relief grants. The SLDC provided a comment that day about that story.

The next day, the station interviewed the SLDC CEO Neal Richardson about its involvement in Black History Month…

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