[Shafted69]

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



http://news.yahoo.com/s/ynews/ynews_ts988

[DwightShrute]

non story . much to do about nothing

happens all the time

[Cappy]

Yeah, Fox news is always suspect in terms of their tactics, but I'm not sure this one is malicious

[jon101]

Think the video editing crew was putting down a few beers too many.

[andywend]

No comparison between Fox's minor gaffe and CNN's malicious and INTENTIONAL lie about the Tea Party protests.

You remember the scene where CNN depicted someone carrying a rifle at the protest and then went on to say how dangerous it might be for white racists to be carrying loaded firearms at these protests.

It turns out the individual carrying the gun was black and CNN knew it. However, they chose to enrage racial tensions with their INTENTIONAL and MALICIOUS LIE.

Of course, you'll never hear this brain-dead left-wing lunatic Shafted ever mentioning that.

[iceminers26]

Originally Posted by jon101

Think the video editing crew was putting down a few beers too many.

heck its a story about Palin, can ya really blame em

[Shafted69]

andy troll is a brainless intolerant Confederate flag-waving koolaid drinkin bloodthirsty trailer trash dwelling ignorant hate-spewing right wing nut sewer scum.

[andywend]

This is the response you get from left-wing liberal nutcases like Shafted when you hit them with the truth.

So you're pinning Bush & Cheney for the war on Iraq in years 2009, 2010 and 2011 as well?

Didn't your boy Obama promise to end the war in Iraq and go on to say it would be one of his first priorities if elected president?

Shafted, you are ABSOLUTELY USELESS from head to toe and a poster child of why you have to be INSANE to support the democratic party.

[Shafted69]

The BUSH anal rimming right wing nut jobs like Andy Troll are always passing the buck when it comes to the failed policies of their clusterphuck party.

The invader BUSH wanted to stay in IRAQ indefinitely, however the public's deteriorating support for the war here at home & increasing anti-U.S. sentiment against the occupation in IRAQ swayed W's administration to flip flop & sign a pact with the IRAQI government on 11/17/08 that required a slow troop withdrawl and to eventually leave the country completely by Dec. 31, 2011.

http://www.reuters.com/article/vccan...7/iduslh492272

Andy Troll, you are the ULTIMATE WASTE OF HUMAN FLESH, a self deluding wack job and the EPITOMY of the brainless WACKOS who make up the REPUBLICAN BASE.

[andywend]

Shafted,
At the end of the day, the story will always be the same.

I have more money than I will ever need and was fortunate enough to be able to fully retire before the age of 40.

You will NEVER have a pot to piss in and you'll be cleaning the toilets @ McDonald's until your last breath (which hopefully comes sooner rather than later).

You'll be happy to know things couldn't be going any better as far as I'm concerned even with the brain-dead chimp Obama as our country's leader.

If your beloved democrats are successful at pushing through Obama's takeover of our medical care system, I'll always be able to secure the best possible medical care for me and my family as I can always pay for it.

You, on the other hand, are going to see a serious reduction in the quality of medical care you receive when the time comes and you won't be able to do a damn thing about it.

Either way, I win and you lose.

Everything will work out exactly as it should.

[Shafted69]

Quote:
Originally Posted by andywend
Shafted, you really need to lay off the watermelon.


Originally Posted by shafted69
First off I'm not even black. I am whiter than that KKK hooded robe of yours.

Andy you're just another load your mother should have swallowed you dim witted piece of dog shit.

I have earned a prestigious MBA from Harvard School Of Business & amassed a fortune from investing during the Internet boom of the mid to late 90's & doubled it during the last 8 years with commodities. I retired from my 100K+ salary job at the age of 35 in 2000 & started a family owned & operated local auto/home/life insurance company. The stock market has bottomed, our economy is growing again & economists predict jobs, a lagging indicator, will bottom out 1st Q of 2010. The new bull market began during the 2nd half of this year.

The foaming toilet bowl dwelling andywend will continue to live in denial and become manic depressive & suicidal once healthcare gets passed. His chronic anger, rage & hate rantings against the dems is the reult of a rare form of mental illness that is incurable.

Little man andy, I suggest you end your miserable existence by standing in front of a speeding freight train.

You are just another clueless reality-denying, ego-inflated dead headed shit for brains eunuch with chronic diarrhea of the mouth whose partisan attacks include belittling the less fortunate. Purely a condescending INHUMANE toilet turd scum.








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[DwightShrute]