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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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12:05PM 12:05PM Feb 11th 2009
Why is noone admitting the truth. This was a release from the republicans, it was put forth as news. I am not going to let you(repub) to change the subject to ratings. Address the issue as put forth, Fox news took a p.r. letter from republicans and reported as the truth not for what it is, propaganda from the conservatives. It is okay to admit it , we all know it is true.
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Steve Seivers
12:42PM 12:42PM Feb 11th 2009
Matt
You are taking a lot of guff from the loonies.
My suggestion is that Fox change its name from Fox to "Daily GOP Talking Points."
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MG
1:42PM 1:42PM Feb 11th 2009
For those who defend Fox News as being a superior news organization because of its ratings, then do you also believe that the WWE (which has higher cable ratings than Fox News, BTW) is more legitimate than collegiate wrestling because its ratings are higher than NCAA wrestling events?
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DRO
8:56AM 8:56AM Apr 22nd 2009
Finally, an intelligent assumption. Being #1 is highly over rated. Being #1 doesn't mean much, especially when the numbers may not be absolutely correct. Being popular these days, is almost a slap in the face of intelligence. I watch the real news from my PC - because American news is usually so opinionated. The facts may dribble into the story, but you can bet that you KNOW how the reporter ""Feels"" about the subject matter. Even the written news shows signs of bias. CNN IMO, is 80-90% factual, the rest of the news media (written,visual,audio) - cannot be cited as original sources of information.
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hunterman
2:11PM 2:11PM Feb 11th 2009
RE: most watched ---
Inauguration
NBC - # 1
ABC - # 2
CBS - # 3
CNN - # 4
MSNBC - # 5
If McCain got 46% of the vote - why didn't FOX come even close to to having 46% of the viewers ??
Fox did not even beat CNN - so you can't say it was a cable vs free tv situation
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hunterman
2:16PM 2:16PM Feb 11th 2009
RE- ratings
Inauguration
NBC - # 1
ABC - # 2
CNN - # 3
CBS - # 4
FOX - # 5
If Mccain won 46% of the votes - why did Fox not beat CNN in the ratings ??
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esl401k
3:18PM 3:18PM Feb 11th 2009
How is Sheppard is a "respectable journalist" if he is on Fox?
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jennifermr33
4:38PM 4:38PM Feb 11th 2009
Oh yeah, and the reason that the liberal shows aren't as highly rated? Us liberals are out having a life, and don't depend on a tv show to give us our opinions.
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BOB JOHNSON
8:41PM 8:41PM Feb 11th 2009
Aye,tis wee debbie o'hara spouting righty BS!
Media Matters is not a news organization. It is a
watchdog group.
And what is it about you Irish that so many of you
are right wing trash? Pat Buchanan,Bill-o,Hannity,
Reagan,O'hara.......
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jon
10:48PM 10:48PM Feb 11th 2009
why are so many americans so stupid to belive that obama would be trust worthy. as a parent of teens i tell them that who they associate with will have an impact on how people will view them. Chance you can xerox is what Hillary said and damn if she wasn't correct. she got my vote but because of obamas aquainteces i voted for McCain. God have mercy on all who have forgotten thier way and filled with so much hate.
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Snoop
11:10PM 11:10PM Feb 11th 2009
Fox News are Tall Tales---Like Rush Limpdick, Ann Coulter--the parrot, and bill o'reilly--these groups still believes in the Tooth Fairy, Easter Bunny, Santa Claus, Bugs Bunny. heh'heh'heh'heh'heh' doggies doggies
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Steve
9:24AM 9:24AM Feb 12th 2009
Fox News.. Wheres theres 10 minutes of news per hour blended with 50 minutes of commentary.
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