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OMFG!!!!!!!!!!!!! 24 hours,7 days a week,52 weeks a year and these mother ers ran 2 clips wrong. I'm never watching that ing cable network again! Thanks buddy for posting.
Fox News again accused of airing misleading video
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.”
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OMFG!!!!!!!!!!!!! 24 hours,7 days a week,52 weeks a year and these mother ers ran 2 clips wrong. I'm never watching that ing cable network again! Thanks buddy for posting.
jihadist fist jab, delivered by jack.
So you like liars after all, jack.
Figures.
Are you desperate to talk to someone? Really....I'm serious.
FOX said they made a mistake. FOX is not a person. They are a network with thousands of workers. Quit trolling.
No. Are you desperate to respond to my posts?
So you like the liars who work at FOX. OK.FOX said they made a mistake. FOX is not a person. They are a network with thousands of workers. Quit trolling.
Or you're just gullible and believe that no one there would ever lie.
what proof do you have that this instance was a lie?
Cir stantial evidence and a fairly lengthy pattern of deceit. This isn't a court of law, so I'm going to go with it. I'm sure your standards will be different.
How was this stock video of Palin supposed to be influencing people?
Is this worse than MSNBC's using photoshopped images of Palin?
much worse, darrin.
Presenting the amount of support for a movement or person as larger than it actually is could give people the wrong impression about the amount of support for that movement or person and could influence their opinion of that movement or person.
That was just as bad. We'll see if they do it again. Fox already did.Is this worse than MSNBC's using photoshopped images of Palin?
Okay!!!!
How so?
bolstering her popularity, her celebrity, or her credibilty with people that would watch foxnews stories about palin.
no. does msnbc's actions excuse foxnews somehow?Is this worse than MSNBC's using photoshopped images of Palin?
They've done it twice. one with the black guy at the rally, and now the Palin pics.
well, i only watch fox news.
how long have they been lying to me?
He's asking if foxnews actions excuse msnbc's. Thanks
They photoshopped Palin onto a black guy at a rally?
Link?
Well, given that she just gave Oprah her best ratings in two years, I don't really think she needs any help.
The network did acknowledge the mistake.
I guess this is some huge story for the grassy knoller crowd.
I said they don't, and I'm asking him the same question in reverse. I can answer a question directly.He's asking if foxnews actions excuse msnbc's. Thanks
What was the deceit? You mean there weren't alot of people at the book signing?
I know you were watching Oprah that day.
Nice of them. How does it keep happening?The network did acknowledge the mistake.
Oh yes, you only post about the most important issues of our time.I guess this is some huge story for the grassy knoller crowd.
So it wasn't until Fox did it, that you decided to start a thread about it, had it not happened, we could count on you not to make a peep about MSNBC.. that sounds right.
That's what makes it so funny. It wasn't even necessary in either case.
don't get mad, G. he said "i guess".
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