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  • 2018-11-07 (xsd:date)
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  • Did an MSNBC Crew Prevent a Disabled Veteran from Voting by Blocking a Handicapped Parking Spot? (en)
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  • In the days leading up to the November 2018 elections, reports emerged of an incident during early voting in Houston, Texas, in which a disabled U.S. Air Force veteran was allegedly prevented from casting his ballot because a news crew from MSNBC had blocked a handicapped parking space outside the man's local polling station. The right-wing web site The Daily Wire published an article under the headline Disabled Vet Can't Vote After NBC Sets Up Camera in Handicapped Parking Space, Refuses to Move, which read: The Daily Wire faithfully reported the account presented by Berrie in a viral 30 October Facebook post, but the claim in their headline -- that he was prevented from voting -- was untrue and was contradicted in the body of the article itself. In his widely-shared Facebook post, Berrie included a photograph of MSNBC staff preparing to shoot outside the polling station with technical equipment covering a handicapped parking space: Berrie's account was somewhat inconsistent in one respect: on one hand, he wrote that If I couldn't park, I couldn't vote, which may have given rise to the claim that he had been prevented from voting. However, earlier in the post Berrie wrote that he asked [the crew] to move, pointed out how it was wrong, then went to vote. Local news accounts also confirmed that although MSNBC's crew was blocking the van accessible space designated for handicapped parking, Berrie and his wife had been able (with difficulty) to park elsewhere and vote: However inconvenient, inconsiderate, or disrespectful the placement of the camera equipment on the handicapped space was, it did not, according to Berrie himself, prevent him from voting at that time. The Daily Wire's own article quoted from that part of Berrie's post, meaning they faithfully reproduced Berrie's account in the body of their article but nonetheless included a significant false claim in its headline. Later on 30 October, MSNBC correspondent Mariana Atencio admitted that the crew had used the parking space in question and apologized for that decision without going into any detail: (en)
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