A post by Pat
There was a phony uproar last week when Fox News ran the wrong video on two occasions. Sean Hannity ran a video showing the crowd at a September Tea Party while talking about a less attended Nov. 4 rally. Jon Stewart made a big deal out of it and Hannity apologized for the error.
One mistake would have been sufficient for the rabid anti-Fox crowd to project the worst imaginable motives to the network, but lo and behold, there was a second mistake the following week. Gregg Jarrett was reporting on Sarah Palin’s book signing in Grand Rapids.
“Take a look at — these are some of the pictures just coming into us… The lines earlier had formed this morning.”
Oops, the video shown was of a much larger crowd during the presidential campaign.
Fox took both errors seriously and apologized.
FOX made good on its promise to acknowledge the mistake and apologized for the mixup today: “We didn’t mean to mislead anybody. It was a mistake, and for that we apologize.”
The hyper-reaction to these flubs speaks more about the bias of the rest of the media than of any nefarious manipulation from Fox. It isn’t as though other news organizations have never run the wrong footage. Just ask these people.
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I knew it! NEVER trust those damn hamsters!
I think they prefer the term “hamsta”.
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