Friday's Mini-Report, 7.18.14

MSNBC got pranked by someone claiming to be from the US military in Ukraine during their live coverage of the downing of the Malaysian jet.

Cable news network MSNBC and anchor Krystal Ball both fell for a prank caller Thursday, putting on the air a fake Army Sgt. who claimed he saw the Malaysian plane in Ukraine shot down by “a blast of wind from Howard 

A prank caller posing as a “sergeant” seemingly duped MSNBC's “The Cycle” on Thursday, calling into the program to report that it appeared that Malaysian Flight MH17 was “shot down by a blast of wind from Howard Stern's 

A prank caller — presumably a Howard Stern fan — got through MSNBC's screening process on The Cycle during live coverage of the MH17 plane crash in Ukraine today. The caller posed as an eyewitness U.S. Staff Sargent 

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