On March 13, 2010 "Imedi" TV company broadcast "news" in the nation of Georgia, announcing that Russians had invaded Georgia, bombed its airports and seaports, that three Georgian battalions had joined the Russians, and that Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili was dead.
The report -- which also contained a simulated address by the Russian president ordering intervention of Georgia -- was aired on the regular 8 p.m. bulletin, according to the Interfax-Religion website.
The report sparked panic in Georgia with "Imedi" not making it immediately clear that the report was "only a simulation of how events might unfold."
The Georgian emergency services received a plethora of calls in the ensuing minutes. Dozens of people gathered to protest the fictitious report in front of the "Imedi" building in Tbilisi.
I believe that the Federal Communications Commission -- or its equivalent in Georgia -- should suspend "Imedi" TV's license to broadcast for at least 30 days for carrying out this prank. The TV station should have known better than to have made a mockery of Russian aggression in Georgia, which could have been "deadly news" -- especially for Georgia's intensive care heart patients, as well as other people suffering from a life-threatening illness.
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