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Fox Explains Wrong Video In Palin Segment: It Was A Mistake

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Yesterday, Fox News aired footage from the 2008 campaign trail during a segment about the crowds to see Sarah Palin on her book tour -- just a week after Fox's Sean Hannity was forced to apologize to Jon Stewart for a similar faux pas.

Fox News explained yesterday's incident to The Swamp:

"This was a production error in which the copy editor changed a script and didn't alert the control room to update the video,'' Michael Clemente, senior vice president of news at FOX, sad this evening. "There will be an on-air explanation during Happening Now on Thursday."

During the short segment Wednesday, Fox played several clips that are obviously from McCain-Palin rallies last year -- you can even see people holding McCain signs. While the clips played, host Gregg Jarrett said, "These are some of the pictures just coming in to us. ... There's a crowd of folks."


Late update: Fox issues an on-air apology for the mistake.

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November 19, 2009 11:06 AM   

Waiting for the clips that mistakenly show sparse crowds.

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November 19, 2009 12:07 PM    in reply to Stoneking

Nailed!

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November 19, 2009 12:07 PM    in reply to Stoneking

Nailed!

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November 19, 2009 4:52 PM    in reply to Stoneking

Spot on!

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November 19, 2009 7:46 PM    in reply to Stoneking

Me too. Unfortunately, for the foreseeable we're going to see crowds that are just too huge to be captured within the narrow camera lens.

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November 19, 2009 11:10 AM   

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November 19, 2009 6:14 PM    in reply to tiowally

I don't remember the date or specifics, but I'm pretty sure some US court ruled that Fox and other "news" outlets have a right to lie.

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November 19, 2009 11:13 AM   

Daily Show said it best - Fox News: We alter reality. To fit a preconceived narrative.

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November 19, 2009 11:42 AM   

I suggest comedy central create a new show 'today in the fake news' and they can focus in large part to calling Fox out on all of its 'mistakes'. Fox is a 'joke' after all. We need a bunch of full time fact checkers on the job to help them begin to own that they are not 'victims' of 'error' but intentionally lying, cheating, and distorting to mislead and manipulate the public.

Or perhaps a new reality show 'How to watch Fox' where they pick a program and point out all of the lies, inaccuracies, and distortions of one of the programs each week. Something to encourage critical thinking. Apparently Fox's ratings did go down after the White House started their 'it's not news' campaign.

And I believe Jon Stewart's The Daily Show came up with a more accurate slogan for Fox as:

Fox News.
We alter reality. You are sold a preconceived narrative.

And this is 'mistake' is just another example of 'oops' how Fox does exactly that... what morons!

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November 19, 2009 11:47 AM   

Come on. It's an honest mistake. It's not as if they've ever done this kind of thing bef.....never mind.

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November 19, 2009 11:52 AM   

What's that old saying? Once is a mistake, twice is a pattern?

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November 19, 2009 7:50 PM    in reply to we r all husseins

What they need is Sarah Palin as executive editor. She'd straighten them out.

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November 19, 2009 11:54 AM   

FUX News execs know that most of their viewers have drool cups and can't pay attention to anything for more than 15 seconds. The problem is that they are now being watched - by people who are paying attention to the accuracy of their drivel! FUX: We distort, you decide!

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November 19, 2009 1:09 PM    in reply to ajkrueger

Exactly. Fox News viewers are gullible and stupid.

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November 19, 2009 7:48 PM    in reply to DownriverDem

Only when awake.

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November 20, 2009 10:31 AM    in reply to JNagarya

LOL

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November 19, 2009 12:25 PM   

Anyone knowing anything about video editing and production in television knows it’s next to impossible to make these “errors” repeatedly. Time code runs under the video with the date and time the video was made, used to spice together images from different angles. NO EDITOR would continually misread the date and time of videos – NONE. These “errors” are done on purpose, not accidentally.

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November 19, 2009 1:08 PM   

How many times is this going to happen with Fox Lies?

How stupid they are to think no one on our side is watching!!!

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November 19, 2009 1:45 PM   

A mistake my ass. The FOX anchor, Gregg Jarrett, looking and reporting on that video couldn't tell it wasn't a book signing event? No one in real time at FOX seeing it on the screen didn't know it wasn't a book signing clip?

Only the brain dead believe FOX's explanation.

When they come out and admit their slogan "Fair and Balanced" is a mistake, then I'll start believing them.

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November 19, 2009 7:51 PM    in reply to JohnW1141

Are you going to believe your lying eyes?

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November 19, 2009 2:36 PM   

Wonder what they'll be faking video on next week?

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November 19, 2009 7:52 PM    in reply to Kuyleh

FOX: One picture is worth a thousand lies.

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November 19, 2009 4:04 PM   

on-air script, is gregg jarret ron burgundy in disguise?

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November 19, 2009 4:38 PM   

Fox News: Fair and Balanced and Really, Really Accident-Prone.

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November 19, 2009 4:44 PM   

Apologize for their goofups like their undying support of her?

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November 19, 2009 4:46 PM   

In video editing, at the news level, the editor should only be working with the current "reel, we do medium other then tape these days. Mixing material should be all but impossible, with anything but today's material, if any on that "reel", though in practice some older material may exist on the "reel" Normally unrelated to the current story. Good videographers mark the end of each story, as does the Time Code

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November 19, 2009 4:57 PM   

Well, to be honest, Palin's campaign appearances were the preliminary stages of the book tour.

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November 19, 2009 5:03 PM   

What is this? some kind of apology tour??!!

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November 19, 2009 5:53 PM   

Ironic that FOX and MSNBC apologize over getting news about the Palin book tour wrong. When does she start apologizing for everything wrong in the book?

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November 19, 2009 6:20 PM   

So, either FNC can't keep their production reels straight. At all. Or they're really shady withe B-rolls. Neither makes me feel they're particularly newsworthy.

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November 19, 2009 7:29 PM    in reply to Pop Zeus

Have they managed anything that makes you feel that they ARE newsworthy?

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November 19, 2009 7:54 PM    in reply to Kuyleh

That FOX is not news is newsworthy.

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November 19, 2009 8:02 PM    in reply to JNagarya

Yeah, I read it right. But the way he wrote it implied that they'd done something in the past to make him feel differently. I was curious as to what that was.

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November 19, 2009 7:45 PM   

If FOX weren't fair and balanced, as it says, it wouldn't have admitted that this was a mistake.

Oh, wait a minute . . .

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November 19, 2009 7:55 PM    in reply to JNagarya

Correction:

So-so balanced.

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November 20, 2009 10:26 AM   

Mistake my ass! I hope these guys go run head-on into a truck on the Interstate!

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November 29, 2009 5:31 AM   

Yes, a copy editor changes a story about last year's presidential campaign into one about Palin's book tour. That's believable.

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November 29, 2009 9:42 AM   

I wonder if they write up a new apology every time, or they just paste the old one in again, with a few minor changes...

Seriously, do they keep one handy, knowing they'll be using it?

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November 29, 2009 2:18 PM   

This is a YouTube clip that shows how Fox News got an appellate court ruling in its favor. Basically it says that it is legal for the media to distort news or even lie to their listeners and viewers. It also shows how powerful corporations like Monsanto can manipulate news media corporations with threats of loss of advertising dollars, to suppress any thing negative about their products.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KclE_Zs4Qqs

This is well worth the 10 minute view.

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