Fox acknowledges ‘production error’ and promises ‘disciplinary action’ for misleading Palin footage.

[G_j]

http://thinkprogress.org/2009/11/19/fox-production-error/

Fox acknowledges ‘production error’ and promises ‘disciplinary action’ for misleading Palin footage.

Yesterday, ThinkProgress first reported that Fox News aired old file footage of Sarah Palin rallies to claim that she’s “continuing to draw huge crowds while she’s promoting her brand new book.” Host Gregg Jarrett presented the video with commentary that suggested the footage was “just coming in.” (Watch it.) Media Matters noted that one of the scenes was from a Nov. 1, 2008 Palin rally in Florida. Crooks and Liars’ John Amato filed an FCC complaint for passing on “false information” to the public. By day’s end yesterday, Fox released this statement responding to the controversy:

“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.”

Citing unnamed sources, The Swamp reports Fox is planning to take “serious disciplinary action” against those “responsible behind the scenes in the control room.”

[GodlessBiker]

1. Bwahahahaha! The pattern there is so clear. Assholes.

[marmar]

2. Production error, like Larry Craig, D-ID.....

FAUX is almost comically full of it.

[bigtree]

3. nailed again!

liars

[Xipe Totec]

4. Disciplinary action. Yea, right.... n/t

[Warpy]

5. A bonus if they don't get caught, no bonus when they do.

Such are the compensation and punishment handed out by those liars.

[G_j]

12. looks like a pattern, I'm guessing

that if someone were to go back and examine other stories, they could find more examples of this type of fraudulent reporting.

[bbernardini]

6. FNC is Opposite World, though. Therefore "disciplinary action" = "promotion and pay raise". nt

[no limit]

7. Sounds like some intern will be thrown under the bus. But file a complaint with the FCC?

Since when is cable regulated by the FCC?

[felinetta]

8. Cut the crap Faux. Twice in a week and you want to be believed? You are never believable.

[barbtries]

9. serious disciplinary action

they'll take them out to lunch and give them a bonus. she is murdoch's puppy after all, right?

[goclark]

10. I saw a scene of 'Lil Sarah and her book tour

The screen shot was close in and a few people were walking near by ~ it was not Fox.

That is their new tactic which is just as misleading.

I knew instantly that about 20 people must have been there, max.

[Ichingcarpenter]

11. 19 year old intern fired for doing what the producer told him to do

Plus his kitten will never be given a job.

Future headlines

[LynneSin]

13. I realize that teabaggers will believe anything Faux shows them but the rest of us...

we aren't so gullible.

Clearly Faux News is nothing more than the right-wing cheerleaders trying to give their sheep new messages. Rupert Murdoch and Roger Ailes try to position themselves as the new Randolph Hearst but honestly - they are buffoons

[Greyhound]

14. Like the "scanning errors" in the grocery store, it's just coincidence that the

"mistake" nearly always favors the store.
:eyes:

[BrklynLiberal]

15. Riiiight...just like when Hannity showed the "wrong" footage for the Bachman debacle.

hahahahahaha

[G_j]

16. this has got to have happened in other instances also

and I'm sure there are people digging to find them.