FOX News Manipulating AP stories AGAIN!

[Dissent Is Patriotic]

FOX News is deliberately switching some of the language out of AP stories and replacing it with language they prefer. Please see the stories below!

THE FOX NEWS STORY

Car Bomb Kills More Than 100 in Iraq
Monday, February 28, 2005
Associated Press

HILLA, Iraq — A car bomber attacked a crowd of police and Iraqi National Guard (search) recruits south of Baghdad on Monday, killing at least 106 and wounding 133, police said, in one of the bloodiest days of the two-year insurgency.

Outside the concrete and brick building, people gingerly walked around pools of blood. Scorch marks covered the clinic walls and dozens of people gathered to help put body parts into blankets. Soles of shoes and tattered clothes were piled up in a corner.

"A suicide car bomb hit a gathering of people who were applying for work in the security services. The incident led to the death of 106 people and injury of 133 citizens," Babil province police said in a statement released to reporters.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,148919,00.html

THE AP STORY

Feb 28, 7:08 AM EST

Suicide Bomber Kills at Least 106 in Iraq

By SAMEER N. YACOUB
Associated Press Writer

BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) -- A suicide car bomber attacked a crowd of police and Iraqi National Guard recruits south of Baghdad on Monday, killing at least 106 and wounding 133, police said. It was one of the deadliest insurgent attacks since President Bush declared the end of major fighting in May 2003.

Associated Press Television News footage showed large pools of blood outside the medical clinic, located on a dusty street in Hilla, 60 miles south of Baghdad. Scorch marks covered the clinic walls and dozens of people gathered to help put body parts into blankets. Soles of shoes and tattered clothes were piled up in a corner.

"A suicide car bomb hit a gathering of people who were applying for work in the security services. The incident led to the death of 106 people and injury of 133 citizens," Babil province police said in a statement released to reporters.

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/I/IRAQ?SITE=DCWAP&SECTION=HOME

FOX has removed the word "Suicide" before the words "Car Bomber". I sent the following e-mail to FOX, Media Matters and the FCC.

You guys have no shame!!!! The story is not titled "Car bomb kills more than 100 in Iraq", the story is titled "Suicide Bomber Kills at Least 106 in Iraq". (referring to AP story dated Monday February 28th) Stop replacing the words "Suicide Bomber" with the words you prefer. First you were substituting in "Homicide Bomber" and now "Car Bomb". This is shameful, and a long way from fair and balanced. There are many people employed at FOX news, and I would think that at least one of you could come forward and be honest about the constant tinkering that goes on with the news that FOX disseminates. I expect FOX to respond to this e-mail, with a good reason why it feels the need to manipulate AP stories. Erica

Please bombard FOX with your concerns! Thanks

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[cthrumatrix]

1. Fox is NOT news....it's state run propaganda

[Katarina]

2. Ok I know it's Faux

but really, is that legal? Aren't AP articles copywritten? Is one allowed to change the wording on copywritten material?

[DoYouEverWonder]

4. Good question

I wonder what AP thinks?

[kbm8170]

6. What strikes me as most odd

is: A. Faux News's obvious obsession with dramatic words like "blood".

B. Their lack of attribution to Associated Press television. If they saw the television footage, they can make a statement about people walking around pools of blood. If you notice, the AP written story doesn't SAY that. . .so Faux would have no way of knowing that unless they picked it up from the AP television story, which they didn't attribute as the source for that descriptive information.

C. The AP written story has a by-line - which means Faux must have removed it to protect themselves, since they were changing the wording of the story. Yet the story looks awfully close in other ways to the written AP story, which makes me wonder whether Faux got their information from AP Television, AP wire services, or both. That's kinda sloppy.

Maybe we should be emailing AP - they might not be aware of how often their stories are altered in such a manner.

[KharmaTrain]

9. AP Is A "Service"...

Faux or anyone else who buys this service can do with those scripts whatever they choose. It happens all the time...it's called editing and re-writing. Words are dropped or replaced...or a viewpoint can be interjected...and it's all legal.

Go ahead and waste your time telling the blind people they can't see. Spend your time and energy running into walls. I assure you as long as AP gets a nice big check with Rupert Murdoch's signature on it (and they do), you're letters to AP will get circular filed as well.

If you want the truth to come out, it's not gonna be sending letters to Faux, it's through working with and supporting the various Progressive and Liberal voices out there who aren't being heard, not wasting your time with the corporate media.

[Orsino]

3. This confirms the power of suicide...

...in their eyes. Someone who's willing to sacrifice his own life, or indeed much of anything, for his beliefs is utterly alien to the modern corporate plutocracy. The words they decide not to reproduce are more important than anything revealed by their stenographic version of non-journalism.

The monk who's willing to set himself ablaze just to make a statement will always make them uncomfortable.

[noonwitch]

5. I'm surprised they didn't use the term "Homicide Bomber"

I have heard them say it on FOX News, and seen it on their crawler. They're the only network that uses that term that the freepers like so much.

[Rush1184]

7. I was talking about this in sociology the other day...

I will bring this thread into my next class.

[wishlist]

8. Fox removed the part mentioning Bush too

Of course in order to condense article Fox took out the AP mention of Bush:

AP- "It was one of the deadliest insurgent attacks since President Bush declared the end of major fighting in May 2003."

Fox-"in one of the bloodiest days of the two-year insurgency."

[Junkdrawer]

11. Yep. That's what caught my eye too...

We don't want Bush blamed for any of this, do we?

[shadowknows69]

10. a good reporter always rewrites AP copy

but a real journalist doesn't spin the facts.