TV journalists swears viral video of men walking on water is real (it’s not)

You know that line from the Marvin Gaye song, “Heard It Through the Grapevine,” that goes: “Believe half of what you see … and none of what you hear”? Someone please tell — or sing — that to this anchor from WUSA in Washington, D.C. He saw a YouTube video of a couple guys in Europe running across water and thought it was real. “This is not a visual trick,” he said on the air. Turns out the video is a viral ad for Hi-Tec Sports, an athletic shoemaker. (Scr…

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