Also Fooled

Yesterday, in a Patron only story, FTVLive told you that WYMT (Kentucky) was fooled into reporting a story that was not true and used information in a press release without doing any follow up. 

Well, it appears that they weren't the only one.

WLEX also reported the story of a church that would cater to the LBGTQ community was opening up in Kentucky on their Sunday newscast. 

The story was not correct and WLEX offered up an apology and made sure to point out that they weren't the only one to fall for the bogus release. 

Bad Journalism is bad Journalism, no matter how many people fell for it. 

This is the "Clarification" that they posted to their site: 

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