Fox give wrong address and people living there are assumed terrorists

[boston bean]

Randy and Ronnell Vorick thought La Habra was about as far away as one could get from terrorism. They were wrong.
For the last 2 1/2 weeks, the lives of the couple and their three children have been plunged into an unsettling routine of drivers shouting profanities, stopping to photograph their house and — most recently — spray-painting a slogan on their property.

Their house, a suburban fixer-upper the Voricks bought three years ago, was wrongly identified in a cable news broadcast as the home of a terrorist.

"I'm scared to go to work and leave my kids home. I call them every 30 minutes to make sure they're OK," Randy Vorick said. "I keep telling myself this can't be happening to me. This can't be happening to my family. But it is. I want our lives to be normal again," he said.

In what Fox News officials concede was a mistake, John Loftus, a former U.S. prosecutor, gave out the address Aug. 7, saying it was the home of a Middle Eastern man, Iyad K. Hilal, who was the leader of a terrorist group with ties to those responsible for the July 7 bombings in London.

http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-lahabra25aug25,1,5510970,full.story?coll=la-headlines-california&ctrack=1&cset=true

[BayCityProgressive]

1. Idiots.

They should sue the shit out of FOX.

[Rainscents]

2. WTF??? If I was her, I would sue the shit out of cable news!!!

[YOY]

3. God, I ask for so little...

Please let these good folks sue the s*** out of Fox News.

[boston bean]

4. I can't believe they concede the mistake, it so out of character for them.

[kikiek]

5. Illustrates how accurate and fair Fox really is. Also how stupid their

followers are. Spray painting terrist on the house. I would say they should stick to words they can spell, but that eliminates all of them.

[Mr Rabble]

6. While this is obviously a travesty...

on the part of Faux News, the AP article wrote that, "the word terrorist was sprayed but spelled wrong, as terrist".

LMAO

[boston bean]

8. Yeah, that was the best part of the article, I should have snipped that.

[Agnomen]

12. A Freeper might as well signed it - misspellings are a giveaway

[Lone_Star_Dem]

14. What do you expect, people who watch FOX are morAns

;)

[Imalittleteapot]

7. Since when was it okay

to give out residential addresses on the news - terrorist or not? Vorick should sue.

[abandoned]

9. Ok?

I want to know why Fox is giving addresses of people they think are terrorists? Are they hoping to incite a riot? Wouldn't that be a ratings boost.

[boston bean]

10. When you read the article, the guy that did it said he was trying to help

the orange county police. I don't get it.

Don't call the cops with the info, put it on the news?

These people just prove to me every single day that my expectations for them have been set too high. <sarcasm>

[Richard Steele]

17. Exactly! Riots are good for ratings...

...but trying to INCITE one is still a crime,
last I heard.

Of course, it's not like LAWS mean anything to B*shCabalInc.™
Or their fawning media whores at F*X.

Welcome to DU!

[kliljedahl]

11. * 's judicial policy

Guilt by accusation. Think Guantanamo, think Padilla....

[wurzel]

13. Is this worse than Dan Rather did? I sure think so!

[tlsmith1963]

15. Fox News Needs to Do More to Correct Problem

This family is *still* being threatened, but I guess Fox doesn't care. It's all about ratings to them.

Also, was anyone creeped out by the fact that they gave the family's address out & even showed their neighborhood on one of those satellite maps? If anyone did that to me I would raise Hell!:mad:

Tammy

[zalinda]

16. This is the reason I'm always pissed

that news stations give out addresses. I've seen them give out an address of a old woman who lived alone and was attacked and in the hospital. What???? Why??? They said it was their policy and see no reason to change it. I'm wondering if they would do it if it was in a fancy shmancy neighborhood. Let's just tell the punks which house to break into because the owner is gone. Damn these people are stupid.

zalinda