Fox caught using misleading footage......Again?

[Luminiferous]

For the second time in two weeks...Interesting.

(Nov. 19) -- In the news business, mistakes happen. And sometimes the same mistakes happen more than once.

On Thursday, Fox News again apologized to viewers for what it said was another honest mix-up. As 2008 footage of a well-attended Sarah Palin campaign rally played on the screen, Fox host Gregg Jarrett proclaimed that the former Alaska governor was "continuing to draw huge crowds while promoting her brand-new book." As the year-old images continued to roll, Jarrett added, "Some of the pictures [are] just coming to us. ... The lines earlier had formed this morning."

Michael Clemente, Fox's senior vice president of news, said the goof was unintentional. "This was a production error in which the copy editor changed a script and didn't alert the control room to update the video," he said in a statement. The network also issued an on-air apology.

It was the second time in two weeks that Fox aired footage that portrayed a crowd size as larger than it actually may have been. Last week, on host Sean Hannity's program, the network aired footage of a robustly attended protest on the Mall in Washington. It said the crowd had been at an anti-health care reform rally organized by Rep. Michele Bachmann, R-Minn.

But Comedy Central's Jon Stewart noticed that the footage must have been taken quite some time before Bachmann's rally.
http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/tue-n ... st-footage

Hannity issued a mea culpa the following night.

http://www.sphere.com/2009/11/19/for-2n ... g-footage/

Oooops? Or not?

[Caustic Queen]

Fox is as reliable as Star magazine..

[vlad]

Fox is so fake that Bat Boy turned down a job offer. He thought they were too unsubtle.

I still the love the habit they had of putting a D behind the name of a few disgraced R's.

[absolutely fabulous]

meh.

on bachman and palin..
who else covers those stories, that's non news.

(err, i guess if you misreport it, i guess..)

[KAOS]

Fox is as reliable as Star magazine..

This

[ROADHEAD]

I know right? Cuz NO ONE is attending her book signings! Sheesh...

[jahlive 420]

I know right? Cuz NO ONE is attending her book signings! Sheesh...

yeah, great point dipshit.

[MasterOfMeatPuppets]

The only channel more full of shit than Fox is MSNBC.

So what? If a tree falls in the woods and no one hears it...

[cc117]

The only channel more full of shit than Fox is MSNBC.

So what? If a tree falls in the woods and no one hears it...

Fox News and MSNBC are equally full of shit. Both appeal to the extreme political bases.

[vlad]

The only channel more full of shit than Fox is MSNBC.

So what? If a tree falls in the woods and no one hears it...

Fox News and MSNBC are equally full of shit. Both appeal to the extreme political bases.

The difference is that MSNBC has Joe Scarborough on for three straight hours in the morning. Imus's old slot. And has Pat Buchanan as one of their in house commentators.

You might have a point if Fox gives a liberal three straight hours of air time.

note: I watch it if I'm up that early (the west coast here)...I also enjoyed Tucker Carlson's show, but I understand the ratings sucked donkey balls.

Oh and you might have a point when MSNBC starts putting an "R" behind any Democrat that misbehaves. How unsubtle does a station have to get before people will admit that it's Pravda.

[Luminiferous]

I know right? Cuz NO ONE is attending her book signings! Sheesh...

Nobody said she had nobody attending her book signings...

She just doesn't have election campaign crowds cheering her onstage...(like in the footage chose to use to pretend she was)

[ROADHEAD]

No TV program has ever used file footage of a celebrity, politician, or anyone else when talking about them. They only use footage of the exact situation they are talking about. Now I get it. If they were talking about Palin and showed an Obama rally crowd that would not make sense. They put up some file footage of the person they were talking about. They should all be imprisoned.

[vlad]

No TV program has ever used file footage of a celebrity, politician, or anyone else when talking about them. They only use footage of the exact situation they are talking about. Now I get it. If they were talking about Palin and showed an Obama rally crowd that would not make sense. They put up some file footage of the person they were talking about. They should all be imprisoned.

Dude...once is a mistake, to do it regularly, with Palin here and Bachmann a few days ago....it isn't an error but an editorial choice. Crowds not big enough? Hell, let's find some footage that shows what we want it to show! Curse that Jon Stewart!

Oh, speaking of Fox. Did anyone catch Dana Perino saying this, talking about the Fort Hood shooting.

But, you know, we did not have a terrorist attack on our country during President Bush's term. I hope they're not looking at this politically.

Revisionist or just plain stupid?

[ROADHEAD]

If you were fooled by the footage then I guess an apology is in order. If someone can't tell the difference between campaign footage and a bookstore, then there is certainly a problem. I saw a news story on one of the big 3 about Obama and the big dinner he had and they showed footage of him getting off Air Force One. What should I do? Did he have the dinner on the plane? I'm so confused by all the trickery & what not.

[Luminiferous]

No TV program has ever used file footage of a celebrity, politician, or anyone else when talking about them. They only use footage of the exact situation they are talking about. Now I get it. If they were talking about Palin and showed an Obama rally crowd that would not make sense. They put up some file footage of the person they were talking about. They should all be imprisoned.

File footage from a year ago, while they were proclaiming it "happening now" on their show. So you conveniently ignored the Fox newscaster saying "These are some of the pictures just coming into us now. The lines had formed early this morning, she's.. there's a crowd of folks!" while the past campaign footage was showing?

[ROADHEAD]

No TV program has ever used file footage of a celebrity, politician, or anyone else when talking about them. They only use footage of the exact situation they are talking about. Now I get it. If they were talking about Palin and showed an Obama rally crowd that would not make sense. They put up some file footage of the person they were talking about. They should all be imprisoned.

File footage from a year ago, while they were proclaiming it "happening now" on their show. So you conveniently ignored the Fox newscaster saying "These are some of the pictures just coming into us now. The lines had formed early this morning, she's.. there's a crowd of folks!" while the past campaign footage was showing?

Show me the clip. If they did it they were stupid. My guess is they were talking about the sigining and showing file footage like is done 24 hours a day on news channels.

[Luminiferous]

My guess is they were talking about the sigining and showing file footage like is done 24 hours a day on news channels.

Uh sorry Alex....they weren't.

http://www.mlive.com/news/grand-rapids/ ... foota.html

http://thinkprogress.org/2009/11/18/fox ... hot-palin/

[MasterOfMeatPuppets]

Show me the clip.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=luNheD4D ... r_embedded

If they did it they were stupid.

Or they think you are too stupid to care.

My guess is they were talking about the sigining and showing file footage like is done 24 hours a day on news channels.

I'm sure the "HAPPENING NOW" in the banner really meant "File footage completely unrelated to the event recorded months earlier."

[tin00can]

I like how ROADHEAD does drive-bys in here and usually ends up getting owned, and then disappears for a bit. Later, when he shows up again, he proves he hasn't learned a damn thing and repeats the process. His willful ignorance is really something to behold.

[MasterOfMeatPuppets]

'Willful ignorance' implies a conscious decision on his part to be stupid.

[pooldude]

'Willful ignorance' implies a conscious decision on his part to be stupid.

Has Roadie's been honing his skills by absorbing the historical tome "Going Rogue"?

[johnk5150]

You guys know all these 'news' channels have an agenda. The best one is Fox with the sound turned down so I can see the hot broads without hearing the bullshit they're saying.

[tin00can]

You guys know all these 'news' channels have an agenda. The best one is Fox with the sound turned down so I can see the hot broads without hearing the bullshit they're saying.

Oh, no doubt. There is no longer such a thing as unbiased news , if there ever was. And I agree - Fox has the hottest broads by far. Which makes me wonder why they have Greta Van Susteren. Perhaps she's the token non-hot broad to give them an air of legitimacy.

[HippiChik]

Is it a big deal to misrepresent the popularity of Palin's book tour?
Maybe not.....right at this moment. Come 2012, yeah.

Is it biased, unethical and a misuse of the "press" to misrepresent public opinion of health care reform in order to gain political leverage on a current national debate?
You betcha!

Seriously, where's the responsibility?
You didn't used to be able to just say any old thing on television, no matter how irrelevant.
Ask Dan Rather.

[thejuggernaut]

Is it a big deal to misrepresent the popularity of Palin's book tour?
Maybe not.....right at this moment. Come 2012, yeah.

Personally, I enjoyed when the network news channels regularly showed Obama on stage in front of crowds while they showed McCain alone on his bus, as if not a single person in the country was on McCain's side.

[Crazy Levi]

Is it a big deal to misrepresent the popularity of Palin's book tour?
Maybe not.....right at this moment. Come 2012, yeah.

Personally, I enjoyed when the network news channels regularly showed Obama on stage in front of crowds while they showed McCain alone on his bus, as if not a single person in the country was on McCain's side.

You should actually be thankful they didn't show the Mcain/Palin crowds on a regular basis. Regularly showing that ugly, racist mob would have done far more damage.

[thejuggernaut]

Is it a big deal to misrepresent the popularity of Palin's book tour?
Maybe not.....right at this moment. Come 2012, yeah.

Personally, I enjoyed when the network news channels regularly showed Obama on stage in front of crowds while they showed McCain alone on his bus, as if not a single person in the country was on McCain's side.

You should actually be thankful they didn't show the Mcain/Palin crowds on a regular basis. Regularly showing that ugly, racist mob would have done far more damage.

Because Obama's crowds were all GQ.

[Crazy Levi]

Because Obama's crowds were all GQ.

You should never start a sentence with "because."

[thejuggernaut]

Because Obama's crowds were all GQ.

You should never start a sentence with "because."

Impressive.

[Crazy Levi]

I live to give.