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CBS News Investigative Producer Michael Rey wrote this story for CBSNews.It was a video that was supposed to elicit soaring patriotism and real emotions about the Pledge of Allegiance. But to do that, it used fake soldiers and a staged military funeral instead of the real thing. On Tuesday night, 15-year-old Victoria Blackstone, a sophomore at the St. Agnes School in St. Paul, led stanley cups uk the crowd at the Xcel Energy Center in the Pledge of Allegiance. The audience heard her 434-word essay, Pledging myself to the Flag of the United States of America, an essay she d entered in the Wave the Stars Stripes essay contest and won. The RNC turned that essay into a three and a half minute video, a visually stirring montage rolling over Victoria s words about sharing the Pledge with Ame stanley cup ricans who have stood at important moments in history.There s the Continental Congresshellip;A real WWII vethellip;Photos of w stanley cup orkers at Ground Zero. A close-up of a folded flag presented to a grieving widow at a military funeralhellip; profiles of soldiers swelling with pride in slo-motion. But CBS News found that the footage of the funeral and soldiers is what is called stock footage. The soldiers were actors and the funeral scene was from a one-day film shoot, produced in June. No real soldiers were used during production.The footage, sold by stock-film house Getty Images was produced by a commercial filmmaker in Chicago. Both Getty and the production c Ykzz East Coast weathering Irene: Snapshots
A British cycling magazine has issued an effusive apology for a sexist caption in its latest issue.Cycling Weekly, which can trace its roots back to 1891, apologized for a caption that read token attractive woman above a smiling female member of the Hinckley Cycling Race Club.The caption was noticed by fellow Hinckley Cycling member Carlos Fandango who tweeted it in a photo along with a request for an apology. Still a lot of equality work to do, he wrote in a post which has been retweeted nearly 800 times.Cycling Weekly issued an unreserved apology, citing a sub-editor who decided to write an idiotic caption as the culprit. The caption is neither funny nor representative of the way we feel or approach our work. Sadly in the rush to g crocs badelatschen et th reebok laufschuhe e magazine finished it was missed by other members of the team and eventually sent to print, read the apology, which was posted on Twitter. This appalling lack of judgment by an individual is just that, and not a reflection of the culture in the CW office. Fandango s tweet and Cycling Weekly s apology prompted hundreds of angry responses, many that blamed a culture of sexism within the sport. As a female cyclist, I find this disgraceful. It s hard enough to get ladies to join us! wrote Twitter user Lesley Watson. More concerned by fact that week after week you produce magazine that gives impression male cyclists are the norm, female are an aberration, wrote Twitter user Alison in respon adidas campus 80s se to the apology.Over the last year, British Cyc
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