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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsFox Reporter Made Career Off Tale She Survived Terrifying Home Invasion, Turns Out She Lied
It isnt only Bill OReilly over at Fox who has been busy fabricating past personal experiences to add weight to his political opinions. Step forward local Fox reporter Emily Miller who fabricated an entire home invasion at her residence to boost her career.
Miller has spent years telling anyone who will listen about a horrifying home invasion she claimed to have suffered on New Years Day 2010. Miller told an NRA All Access interview that:
a man the police believed to be a drug addict got into the house and started robbing it. So when I came back into the house, he was in there robbing.
But then, according to Miller, things got a lot worse:
After the man left, I was still suspicious so I went inside, grabbed my Blackberry and clicked on the icon for the camera. I walked down the street, and as I turned the corner, I saw about 15 scruffy young men standing around two pickup trucks. We were at the end of a woody, dead-end road.
I nervously held up my Blackberry to take a quick photo of them and the license plates. Suddenly, the blood-shot-eyed guy darted out, blocking the shot. What are you doing? he asked. I looked around at all the men staring at me and was suddenly scared.
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As an investigative report by the Washington Post has revealed, what really happened to Miller was far less dramatic. The following comes from a supplemental report on the event by D.C. police:
(Miller) stated that she left out to walk the dog at 1515hrs and when she returned at 1525hrs she observed (the suspect) exiting from behind the fence which leads to the side of the house. (Miller) asked (suspect) What are you doing here and (suspect) stated I am delivering firewood.
(Miller) stated that she went into the house and felt that something was not right, so she exited the house to take a photo of (suspects) vehicle. (Suspect) approached (Miller) and gave her a business card that stated (a tree service) and (suspect) left the scene. (Miller) stated that (suspect) was operating a silver pick up truck with landscaping on the side of it.
In reality then, Miller told police that she came back from walking her dog in the middle of the afternoon to find a man claiming to deliver wood to her home. She took his card, and he left. No chase, no drug dealer, no 15 angry men racing at her.
Just like OReilly, Miller has spun a tall tale to gain a career advantage she got air time, column inches, a book deal, and a whole host of billings to speak at gun advocacy events. All on the back of a fairy tale. Fox News: high on drama, low on facts.
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http://www.addictinginfo.org/2015/03/05/fox-reporter-made-career-off-tale-she-survived-terrifying-home-invasion-turns-out-she-lied-video/
samsingh
(17,602 posts)leftofcool
(19,460 posts)mikeysnot
(4,758 posts)that tell the truth.... which is none of them.
MattSh
(3,714 posts)you should trust other "journalists" elsewhere.
Of course, not all journalists lie. Those doing sports are usually dependable.
hobbit709
(41,694 posts)bullwinkle428
(20,631 posts)mahatmakanejeeves
(57,721 posts)Fox News: high on drama, low on facts.
Emily Miller does not work for Fox News. She is a reporter at the DC Fox affiliate, WTTG, channel 5. Fox News is a cable operation. WTTG broadcasts over the air. Those are two entirely different things.
WTTG, channel 5, is a Fox owned-and-operated television station located in the American capital city of Washington, D.C.. The station is owned by the Fox Television Stations subsidiary of 21st Century Fox,...
Here is Erik Wemple's story at the Washington Post. He and the Post get her employer right:
Additional document casts doubt on home invasion of local Fox reporter
By Erik Wemple March 3
@ErikWemple
A document from the D.C. police department shows that Emily Miller, the chief investigative reporter for WTTG-TV (Fox 5), didnt fall victim to a home invasion on New Years Day 2010 as she has told various interviewers in recent years, including some gun-rights lobbying groups. Instead, Miller spotted someone leaving the property as she returned from walking a dog.
I have been watching channel 5 since it was a DuMont affiliate.
Botany
(70,635 posts)Bottom line Fox News is an organization that is based pushing lies and 1/2 truths
in order to help the GOP. Roger Ailes got his start having phony press confrences
for Dick Nixon where he could create "the news."
Enthusiast
(50,983 posts)Botany
(70,635 posts).... what with having a company name and phone # on the side of the truck
he was working out of and then giving the woman his business card.
But then again so much of their world is based on lies:
In 1983 the Gipper regaled Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir and Nazi-hunter Simon Wiesenthal with his memories of photographing Nazi death camps at the end of the war. But Mr. Reagan never left the country during that war, period.
Enthusiast
(50,983 posts)NoJusticeNoPeace
(5,018 posts)I dont recall which came first, Rush Limbaugh nationally or Fox News, if it was Rush, he may have helped.
Liberal means someone who has attitudes and personality traits that by definition means the person is more likely to be educated and worldly.
Therefore common sense dictates that journalists by the nature of their job are far more likely to be liberals, i.e. mature, open minded, considerate of all positions and familiar with the world in general.
Your typical TeaParTY type prior to the teaparty existence would yell at Walter Cronkite or Dan Rather "you commie liberals!"
It angered them that people who were telling the truth (try as they did, they couldn't find deliberate misinformation) were in fact mostly liberal minded.
It wouldn't matter if a Fox reporter or journalist or Host proclaimed that she or he had martians living in her closet, or they had lunch with Jesus, wouldn't matter.
Truth isnt what a fox viewer is looking for, wouldn't know it if they saw it anyway, comfort is what they are looking for.
Aristus
(66,509 posts)Sheesh! Six year-old girls write better than that...
joeybee12
(56,177 posts)a pathological liar.
2naSalit
(86,898 posts)I didn't get any further than this point in her fabrication because she contradicts herself - in a way - that instantly made me realize she was full of sh*t...
Room for nit picking but it seems like we're talking two separate environments within the same event. So what was it, a city/suburban street or a rural country road? Can't be both at the same time.
KatyMan
(4,216 posts)the difference between a robbery and burglary.
a man the police believed to be a drug addict got into the house and started robbing it. So when I came back into the house, he was in there robbing.
2naSalit
(86,898 posts)that this was fabricated with nearly every sentence.. amazing.
corkhead
(6,119 posts)It would only be lying if they were actually reporters for a legitimate news network and not an American Taliban entertainment channel.
CANDO
(2,068 posts)Of conservatives. We all know how fearful and emotion driven the conservative psyche is.
Scurrilous
(38,687 posts)malaise
(269,256 posts)job.
Kingofalldems
(38,503 posts)Response to DonViejo (Original post)
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RockaFowler
(7,429 posts)Who knew it was dark at 3:15 in the afternoon??
(Miller) stated that she left out to walk the dog at 1515hrs and when she returned at 1525hrs she observed (the suspect) exiting from behind the fence which leads to the side of the house.
pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)...that she has a dog. So there!
Politicalboi
(15,189 posts)It would be Taliban TV and it would mirror ALL of Faux news stories. And our only references would be from Faux reporting. Of course most of my reporters would be male in their Taliban gear, and the women would report in a burqas.
tanyev
(42,663 posts)onethatcares
(16,204 posts)it was Santa Claus cause he left firewood.