Faux up their old tricks....this time in the sports area......

[a kennedy]

Fox Sports admits fabrication of newspaper headlines:

Posted by Gregg Rosenthal on September 20, 2011

During the Bears season opener, Fox Sports wanted to reference some headlines that questioned Jay Cutler’s toughness in last year’s NFC Championship game.

Since no headlines actually existed in any newspaper, Fox decided to make them up. And then say they were real. Seriously.

Here are the three headlines Fox used as a graphic, via Poynter:

1. “Cutler Leaves With Injury”

2. “Cutler Lacks Courage”

3. “Cutler’s No Leader”

Fox analyst Darryl Johnson backed them up by saying “these are the actual headlines from the local papers in Chicago.”

Except they weren’t. The Chicago Tribune thought the headlines sounded fishy because Cutler was defended locally. They did an investigation, and there no such headlines in Chicago. Or anywhere else in the country.

“It was misleading,” admitted FOX Sports spokesman Dan Bell.

http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2011/09/20/week-two-power-rankings-2/related/ (middle of the page)

[Auggie]

1. Johnson should know better -- I'm disappointed

Fox? Heck, that's expected.

[RockaFowler]

2. It was misleading

Really??

I liked this line:

We’re confused by the strategy. Why make up headlines when they could just hack into Cutler’s voice mail and create a real one?

:rofl:

[SpiralHawk]

3. Freaking lying Fox (R) can't even be trusted on sports shit

There's your crap-encrusted Republicon Family Values for you...

[trumad]

4. Spokeman said:

“Our attempt was to capture the overall sentiment nationwide following that game,”

So you lied?

Douchebags.

[joeybee12]

5. Amazing, they lied and they try to make it less than a lie...

FUCKING ASSHOLES!

[RagAss]

6. I'm surprised at Moose...he left the game of football due to injury...

No excuse for that.

[Auggie]

7. Let's not forget Cutler...

screwed by Fox