Guardian Comment Column on Texas Mass Grave Hoax

The Guardian has published a commentary on the fraudulent story about a mass grave in Texas two days ago which broke after midnight British time. That story is here and the BBC’s video story on it is here – as the latter agency left the TV news feed to ABC whose headline half-hour programme is syndicated to British viewers.

The correction is the single story that follows in the BBC’s customary story list below the headline otherwise skip straight to it here.

– CBG

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