FOX - Airs Repub's Press Release WITHOUT Bothering To Correct Typos!

[kpete]

Fox passes off GOP press release as its own research -- typo and all

February 10, 2009

INTERESTING USE OF THE WORD 'WE'.... It's a good thing Fox News doesn't have any journalistic credibility, or this might be embarrassing.

During the February 10 edition of Fox News' Happening Now, co-host Jon Scott claimed that "the Senate is expected to pass the $838 billion stimulus plan -- its version of it, anyway. We thought we'd take a look back at the bill, how it was born, and how it grew, and grew, and grew." In tracking how and when the bill purportedly "grew," Scott referenced seven dates, as on-screen graphics cited various news sources from those time periods.

However, all of the sources and cost figures Scott cited, as well as the accompanying on-screen text, were also contained in a February 10 press release issued by the Senate Republican Communications Center. One on-screen graphic during the segment even repeated a typo from the GOP document, further confirming that Scott was simply reading from a Republican press release. The Fox News graphic and the GOP press release both claimed that a Wall Street Journal report that the stimulus package could reach "$775 billion over two years" was published on December 19, 2009 .

Fox News literally got the Republican press release this morning, and soon after, aired it as if it were news. It's one thing to take the party line on every issue, but when a news outlet starts running GOP press releases -- without even bothering to correct the party's typos -- you know the network has given up entirely on being taken seriously.

http://mediamatters.org/items/200902100019?f=h_latest
via:http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/archives/individual/2009_02/016835.php

[MADem]

1. Why is this surprising?

Fox is the commercial media arm of the GOP.

MSNBC does the same for the Democrats.

It's just how deregulation has shaken out. I preferred the old days and the old ways, but it ain't up to me.

[tblue37]

4. It's not *surprising*--the point is that it is incontrovertible

evidence that FOX News is merely the propaganda wing of the Repulican Party, since some people still labor under the misconception it is actually a "news" outlet.

[MADem]

8. Well.....of course. How many times do you need to be hit on your thumb with a hammer to know

that doing so causes pain?

How many times does Fox have to engage in on-air fellating of GOP politicians and touting of GOP policies and issues to realize that, gee, they seem to favor the Republican Party?

I mean, come on. We Hold These Truths to Be Self-Evident, Fox is a Media Arm of The Republican Party.

They've been doing this ever since they rolled out their product to great fanfare and Very Bright Colors, Lots of Blonde Hair, Red Lipstick, and Cleavage, More Cleavage.

Dogs bark. Cats meow. Fox is what Fox is.

[Idealism]

2. Fair and balanced typo's never read so smooth

[MineralMan]

3. Fox News -- Fairly Unbalanced!

[hootinholler]

5. Hmmm might it have been a contractual obligation?

You know not to put words in the republic mouths.

-Hoot

[KamaAina]

6. What typo?

You don't think Faux can predict the future? :shrug:

:sarcasm:

[chollybocker]

7. Can't wait til the GOP sues FOX for plagiarism.

What? They're not?