Fake Russian Invasion Broadcast Sparks Georgian Panic

Summary: A television station in Georgia falsely broadcast a half-hour segment about a Russian invasion of the country. In August of 2008 Russian tanks and troops moved into the Soviet Republic and the invasion was triggered when Georgian troops attacked Russian separatists. Now recently a TV station in Georgia thought it would be intriguing to see what a fresh invasion would look like, but they forgot to mention that what the people would be seeing was not real. Therefore, people became scared and alarmed with what they were watching. The show actually showed bits and pieces of the conflict that took place in 2008, which made everything even more confusing, real, and scary. After two hours, the station began to apologize for the misunderstanding and misinterpritation by scrolling texts down the screen. Many of the people that commented about the show said that they were "put into a state of panic and that it wasn't right for them to do what they did."

Opinion: The station that re-enacted this conflict on screen obviously didn't think through the consequenses before airing the segment. I completely agree with the viewers when they say that it wasn't right for them to broadcast something like this. They should have known that most people wouldn't know about the invasion that took place in 2008 or could have very well forgotten and would have thought that the information being shown was real or a repeat of the event in August of 2008. This was very cruel, misleading, and not smart to put on TV when so many Americans watch. They honestly shouldn't have been so stupid and immature to put that kind of fearful uncertaintly before the eyes of America.