"What has the Guardian misreported then, Iains? Do you have any recent examples?" .......DtG
"Russia to launch 'large-scale' airstrikes on Syria as Americans vote"
The above Guardian headline , written by the British newspaper's World affairs editor Julian Borger featured prominently on the Google News aggregator site on US election day ,November 8 .The article's opening paragraphs predicted massive Russian airstrikes on Aleppo within 24 hours............."according to reports".
These "reports " - supposedly emanating from Moscow - claimed that: "Russia has threatened to launch "large-scale" cruise missile and airstrikes on Aleppo to coincide with the US election".
The Guardian's election-day story was picked up by several pro-Clinton news outlets in the US and circulated via Google News' USA edition, with predictions of Russian strikes "within hours" that would involve , "cruise missiles, carrier-based and land-based warplanes".