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BUSTED: Fox Re-Prints GOP Press Release as 'News'
Fox News on Tuesday re-printed a press release from Senate Republicans word-for-word and passed it off as its own reporting.
The journalistic blunder, by Jon Scott, was caught by the liberal watchdog Media Matters. On his Fox News program, Scott was trying to prove how Barack Obama's stimulus package "grew and grew and grew" by showing seven dates when more money was added. Yet the dates and their descriptions, shown on screen, were copied verbatim from a press release issued by the Senate Republican Communications Center.
Fox News even reprinted a typo in the GOP press release. It appears that Fox didn't even try to check the information the Republicans put out.
Scott read the talking points on the air without ever saying it came from the Republican group. When he got to one of the press release's final snippets, about the stimulus package possibly reaching $775 billion, he showed the quote on the screen from The Wall Street Journal, but apparently didn't notice that it was dated December 19, 2009, which is about 10 months away from happening.
The same typo appears in the Republicans' press release. (Below: What Fox News showed on air, taken directly from the GOP's prepared propaganda. Note the "09.")
Who, exactly, is working for Fox News? People who fly to the right and don't mind their views obstructing journalism? More importantly: Who doesn't work at Fox News? Fact checkers? It wouldn't even take a Google search -- the most basic, lazy form of fact checking -- to realize that the Journal quote is dated incorrectly, because stories that appear in the future are not real.
All this talk about right-wing Fox Newsies has apparently irked one of the network's actually respectable journalists, Shepard Smith, who told Esquire, "When I hear people say that Fox News is right wing, I know that's not true, because I'm the one doing the news. It's my show, and there's no place for opinion on my show. It's uninteresting to me. I don't care what Sean Hannity thinks, and I don't care what Alan Colmes thinks, and I guarantee they don't care what I think and they don't know, either."
I wonder what Smith would say about his colleague, Scott, being caught for airing a spoon-fed, partisan report from a Senate Republican PR group. Any journalist will tell you that it's unethical. And any journalist will tell you that in addition to checking every so-called fact, you should always check the date.
Especially if the date is in the future.
(Previous Fox News news: Photoshop Fun, Osama/Obama, More Photoshop Fun, Terrorist Fist Jabs)
The journalistic blunder, by Jon Scott, was caught by the liberal watchdog Media Matters. On his Fox News program, Scott was trying to prove how Barack Obama's stimulus package "grew and grew and grew" by showing seven dates when more money was added. Yet the dates and their descriptions, shown on screen, were copied verbatim from a press release issued by the Senate Republican Communications Center.
Fox News even reprinted a typo in the GOP press release. It appears that Fox didn't even try to check the information the Republicans put out.
Scott read the talking points on the air without ever saying it came from the Republican group. When he got to one of the press release's final snippets, about the stimulus package possibly reaching $775 billion, he showed the quote on the screen from The Wall Street Journal, but apparently didn't notice that it was dated December 19, 2009, which is about 10 months away from happening.
The same typo appears in the Republicans' press release. (Below: What Fox News showed on air, taken directly from the GOP's prepared propaganda. Note the "09.")
Who, exactly, is working for Fox News? People who fly to the right and don't mind their views obstructing journalism? More importantly: Who doesn't work at Fox News? Fact checkers? It wouldn't even take a Google search -- the most basic, lazy form of fact checking -- to realize that the Journal quote is dated incorrectly, because stories that appear in the future are not real.
All this talk about right-wing Fox Newsies has apparently irked one of the network's actually respectable journalists, Shepard Smith, who told Esquire, "When I hear people say that Fox News is right wing, I know that's not true, because I'm the one doing the news. It's my show, and there's no place for opinion on my show. It's uninteresting to me. I don't care what Sean Hannity thinks, and I don't care what Alan Colmes thinks, and I guarantee they don't care what I think and they don't know, either."
I wonder what Smith would say about his colleague, Scott, being caught for airing a spoon-fed, partisan report from a Senate Republican PR group. Any journalist will tell you that it's unethical. And any journalist will tell you that in addition to checking every so-called fact, you should always check the date.
Especially if the date is in the future.
(Previous Fox News news: Photoshop Fun, Osama/Obama, More Photoshop Fun, Terrorist Fist Jabs)
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Swvmd
9:25PM 9:25PM Feb 10th 2009
No new news here. Faux News is simply living up to it's rep as 'far right and unbalanced.'
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harry
7:07AM 7:07AM Feb 11th 2009
these leftwing loons just can't stand the fact-fnc rules the cable news viewers. america votes with their remotes----even cnn and msnbc combined come nowhere near the viewers. these loons hate the fact most people don't agree with them..the ratings tell it all.
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jennifermr33
4:35PM 4:35PM Feb 11th 2009
Maybe "everyone" who watches Fox News was too busy watching it to go out and vote on election day. In that case, I hope Fox News is the highest rated show of all time, and "everyone" that watches it can continue voting with their remotes!
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GreatR
9:20PM 9:20PM Feb 10th 2009
This gives me the only laugh I've had today. The author couldn't find a new story so he made one up.
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Tom
7:21AM 7:21AM Feb 11th 2009
What did he make up, GreatR? I don't see your point . . .
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dennis
9:39PM 9:39PM Feb 10th 2009
I'm Shocked, shocked I say, to find out Fox NEWS is a mere tool of The Grand Ole Party. Clearly this is a distortion of the real facts. If I had to guess who was behind this I would say Bill Clinton, or maybe Obama, or maybe Hillary, or maybe Oberman, or maybe the liberal media, or maybe Huey, Duey and Lewie, or maybe it is ust the plain truth. God I hate that word!
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MG
11:31PM 11:31PM Feb 10th 2009
How many times have you ever seen a correction or retraction issued on Fox News? Rarely, if ever. Their commentators are encouraged to MAKE THINGS UP and pass them off as facts, or use spurious sources to denigrate the Left. The MSM faces PENALTIES for such actions such as lawsuits and firings. Has ANYONE been fired at Fox News as punishment for getting stories WRONG? The money must be damn good for Fox news employees to compromise their journalistic integrity daily - that is, if they ever HAD any integrity to begin with.
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Joseph
7:33AM 7:33AM Feb 11th 2009
no news here, eberyone knows fox is a joke. No serious minded person takes what they say serious. In fact if you hear on fox that it's going to be a sunny day, grab your umbrellas and galooshes because it's pouring down.
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Angiebaby
9:07AM 9:07AM Feb 11th 2009
Good morning, Grasshopper. I see you make much noise about nothing, again. Jon Scott's report, on Fox News, gave credit to other sources for the information presented in his newscast. He did not claim the information was his own, and if other sources took information from the GOP press release, to be honest, they would have to have printed the erroneous date to be legit. Therefore, to give proper credit to The Wall Street Journal for it's article dating and explaining in detail a particular item from GOP sources, Jon Scott would need to print the date from the article... even though the date was wrong. Quietly consider this Chinese Proverb, Grasshopper: Outside noisy, inside empty.
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mahalapril
3:29PM 3:29PM Feb 11th 2009
The liberal- biased media are going bankrupt including NBC,MSNBC,New York times and others while Fox News Channel has been the No. 1 show for 8 years in a row and counting. All the other liberal - biased media audience numbers combined is very way behind the number of Fox audience.This is why the liberal media are making up false stories about Fox because they can never compete with Fox.Now that Bush has retired the corrupt and incompetent democratic Obama administration will have to accept all the errors in judgement,incompetence and criticisms that were unjustly attributed to Bush who protected us since 9/11 and Obama is now dismantling the safeguards that Bush put in place, so start counting when the first islamic terrorist attack on our homeland begins.
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moderate
12:24PM 12:24PM Feb 11th 2009
How did they make it up? It happened, the dates were bad, and no one is saying it is not true. Man up, you were caught. Stick to the issue, i know it is hard but the truth is the truth.
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Bob
1:05PM 1:05PM Feb 11th 2009
If Fox is so good--why is the owner--News Corp going bankrupt? Here in Denver, the Fox station, (and its repeater stations in Colorado) have been sold off, with the new owner trying to dump Fox as its network.
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Robert
10:03PM 10:03PM Feb 11th 2009
Sigh! April, I already addressed this. Fox is NOT a journalistic endeavor. Hence the ratings. People have been dumbed down to a point where they think that what passes for news on Fox IS news. Real journalists are a dying breed because they report the NEWS. Not through sensationalism, but through ACTUAL reporting. Hence the drop-off in all journalistic media, print, or broadcast. The powers that be learned long ago how the game was- watch "Network" and you'll see. Get back to me, after your brain hemorrages from the reality being forced upon your pathetic version of reality. Oh, and I have heard that anti-depressants (of any form, prescription or not) help.
Aloha!
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ddiazjr447
9:56AM 9:56AM Feb 11th 2009
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cMnSp4qEXNM&NR=1
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Robert
10:00AM 10:00AM Feb 11th 2009
I am constantly amazed with those of you who equate RATINGS with superior JOURNALISM. Fox is, and will always be, an entertainment venue, an 'Infotainment' program. Granted, they have the most viewers, ad revenues, etc., but they SHOULD! They're funny (if you smoke enough Dope) informative (they should be, they copy everybody else's homework) and DAMN!!! that Bill O'REilly dude it the S**T!!!
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mahalapril
3:15PM 3:15PM Feb 11th 2009
Robert - The reason FOX is No. 1 is because they report the truth,fair and balanced. Did you hear NBC,MSNBC and the New York times spend time during the campaign about the association of Obama with terrorist Ayers,anti-America racists Rev. Wright and Michelle,the convicted Rezko,corrupt Blagojevich whom Obama endorsed for Gov . and the reverse , Acorn,his own book and own words stating that "If the political winds shift in an ugly direction I will stand with the muslims" and admitting drug abuse in his early adulthood. How about talking to the terrorists,Iran and rogue nations without preconditions and Iran is a small country and not a threat.Did Biden and Hillary lied in the primaries when they said Obama is naive,inexperienced and not fit to be commander-in-chief ?
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Debbie
11:21AM 11:21AM Feb 11th 2009
How many of these things happen when they get direct emails from the White House to "friends in the media" at NBC, CNN, CBS, PBS, etc.? Give me a break! In fact, I am thankful for Fox! I would take it over those other idiots any day of the week!
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Debbiohara
5:26PM 5:26PM Feb 11th 2009
Yes, like Media Matters is objective in their reporting. They are a big joke! Very left wing!
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Debbiohara
5:26PM 5:26PM Feb 11th 2009
This is site is really, "not very Bright Hall" I believe.
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KATHY
12:03PM 12:03PM Feb 11th 2009
FOX NEWS CHANNEL
F-FAR RIGHT
O-ONLY
X-XTREME
FAR RIGHT ONLY EXTREME NEWS CHANNEL--FOX
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