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Fox News Public Apology for Lying....twice in a week!

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  1. LosPollosHermanos

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    For the second time in just over a week, Fox News is coming under fire for misusing old news footage. The latest flap is leading some people to charge that the cable news network is intentionally misleading its audience, while Fox claims a "production error."

    Wednesday's incident occurred when Fox News host Gregg Jarrett mentioned that a Sarah Palin appearance and book signing in Grand Rapids, Michigan had a massive turnout. As footage rolled of a smiling and waving Palin amidst a throng of fans, Jarrett noted that the former Republican vice-presidential candidate is "continuing to draw huge crowds while she's promoting her brand-new book,'' adding that the images being shown were "some of the pictures just coming in to us.... The lines earlier had formed this morning."

    However, the video used in the segment was from a 2008 McCain/Palin campaign rally. In response to the minor uproar that arose after clips of Jarrett's report hit the Internet, Fox senior vice-president of news Michael Clemente issued an initial statement saying, "This was a production error in which the copy editor changed a script and didn't alert the control room to update the video."

    On Thursday afternoon, Fox News issued an on-air apology delivered by host Jane Skinner:

    Yesterday we told you about Sarah Palin kicking off her book tour and then we spoke to Sean Hannity about an interview that he did with former Governor Palin. When introducing the segment we showed you footage of people lining up in Michigan for a book signing that evening. In the tease before the segment, the tease to commercial, we told you how those people were already lining up to meet Palin. The problem is we didn't show you the video we were actually referencing. Instead we mistakenly aired what's called "file tape" of Sarah Palin. We didn't mean to mislead anybody in that tease. It was a mistake, and for that we apologize.

    The current mishap comes on the heels of a controversy sparked last week when footage from a conservative rally held over the summer was played on "Hannity" during a segment on a more recent rally. During the clip, host Sean Hannity marveled over the large turnout for a Washington, DC protest. The Daily Show later pointed out that there seemed to be some inconsistencies with the video shown on Hannity's show, namely that the atmospheric conditions seemed to vary from shot to shot. Hannity later apologized on the air for what he called "an inadvertent mistake."

    Barely a week into Palin’s blitz to promote “Going Rogue,” media coverage is becoming its own story. Fox News rival MSNBC caught heat last week for using altered images of Sarah Palin on the air, for which they later apologized. On Wednesday, Yahoo! News reported Newsweek’s defense of their latest controversial cover, which Palin herself blasted as “sexist.”

    -- Brett Michael Dykes is a contributor to the Yahoo! News Blog
     
    #1 LosPollosHermanos, Nov 19, 2009
  2. LosPollosHermanos

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    Why the hell did i write twice in a week on the title?

    Thats like a daily routine, they aren't this recognized and blatant however.
     
    #2 LosPollosHermanos, Nov 19, 2009
  3. Sweet Lou 4 2

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    Fox is the propaganda arm of the nut cases now.
     
    #3 Sweet Lou 4 2, Nov 19, 2009
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    *snicker*
     
    #4 mc mark, Nov 19, 2009
  5. LosPollosHermanos

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    Credible Journalism nowadays is truly hard to find. With the exception of Shepard, Chris Wallace, and a few other noteworthy individuals, Fox is filled with scum. I used to think O' Reilly or hannity were the worst of the bunch...but Glen Beck...man.
     
    #5 LosPollosHermanos, Nov 20, 2009
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    There was some Pew survey that claimed a third of their viewers were self-identified Democrats.

    This type of **** sells.
     
    #6 Invisible Fan, Nov 20, 2009
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    Just wait until Palin gets her own show.

    As completely incompetent as she is, Palin is actually an excellent news anchor. It's bound to happen.

    Oh and now with Oprah going off the air in 2011....let's just say I don't think Ellen or Tyra would be able to compete with a Palin. She could end up with her own talk show, FOX News nightly, and radio show.

    God forbid. If she EVER gets elected president, I'm leaving the country.
     
    #7 hjg877, Nov 20, 2009
  8. Codman

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    political bedlam...."only Fox that I trust is a red one." -N. Escobar
     
    #8 Codman, Nov 20, 2009
  9. LosPollosHermanos

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    lol! I wish there were like 10 laughing smileys i could post for this :grin:
     
    #9 LosPollosHermanos, Nov 20, 2009
  10. MadMax

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    he's not a journalist, but he plays one on tv
     
    #10 MadMax, Nov 20, 2009
  11. rocketsjudoka

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    From what I've seen I don't think he even plays one.
     
    #11 rocketsjudoka, Nov 20, 2009
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    With over 15yrs of experience in Broadcast, I can assure you that using old footage occurs quite often when talking about current events. Not just FOX. All networks do it. Its not uncommon, its just that nobody is double-checking every second of any other networks like they do FOX. Fox was only hurt by it because of Hannity's comments - he didn't realize it was file footage.
     
    #12 DFWRocket, Nov 20, 2009
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    Yeah, I'd agree with this. The tea-party footage thing was pretty bad, and hard to justify as an oversight. But the second one seems like a simple mistake. It's just easy for people to start picking out every error once you get a reputation for it.
     
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    I agree. I would be ok to over look the second one if the 1st never happened.
    once is a mistake
    twice is a pattern
     
    #14 dbigfeet, Nov 20, 2009
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    ...and I'm fairly confident it has happend more than twice.

    Fox News presenting misleading info is not new ...but I think people are finally getting fed up with it. Previously you could dismiss them as a joke. But now the propoganda machine is so finly tuned that people firmly beleive everything that is said. The 'Tea Parties' is evidence how strong the movement is. So the left now realizes they need hold the right accountable when they spew false and/or misleading info.

    Afterall, the right holds the left accountable for EVERYTHING. The left tends to let things go ...but not anymore.

    Check/Balance is a good thing.
     
    #15 krosfyah, Nov 20, 2009
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    #16 Landlord Landry, Nov 20, 2009
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    this is the same Fox network that had suspended 2 sportscasters for pronouncing Iran "Eye Ran"

     
    #17 adoo, Nov 21, 2009
  18. BetterThanEver

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    Yeah, that's the funny part. Democrats are so upset and incensed that they want to see what Fox does next. They are "feeding the troll" like we do on the internet.
     
    #18 BetterThanEver, Nov 21, 2009
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    Promises, promises.

    Alec Baldwin said the same thing about Bush and he managed to tough it out.
     
    #19 Faos, Nov 21, 2009
  20. BetterThanEver

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    ^^^

    I wish Glen Beck and Rush said the same before Obama got elected.
     
    #20 BetterThanEver, Nov 21, 2009
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