Who'll be the first victim of Fox's tough new zero tolerance policy for 'on-screen errors?'

[BurtWorm]

:popcorn:

http://thinkprogress.org/2009/11/23/fox-news-memo/

In wake of misleading Palin footage, Fox News institutes ‘zero tolerance for on-screen errors.’

Last Thursday, Fox News issued an on-air apology after ThinkProgress reported that the network had recycled old file footage of Sarah Palin rallies to assert that she is currently getting huge turnouts on her book tour. The file-footage switch-up came a week after The Daily Show’s Jon Stewart caught Fox’s Sean Hannity using old footage to inflate the size of a tea party, forcing Hannity to admit that he had “screwed up.” Now, FishbowlDC reports that Fox’s management has issued a memo declaring that “Effective immediately, there is zero tolerance for on-screen errors”:

Effective immediately, there is zero tolerance for on-screen errors. Mistakes by any member of the show team that end up on air may result in immediate disciplinary action against those who played significant roles in the “mistake chain,” and those who supervise them. That may include warning letters to personnel files, suspensions, and other possible actions up to and including termination, and this will all obviously play a role in performance reviews. So we now face a great opportunity to review and improve on our workflow and quality control efforts. To make the most of that opportunity, effective immediately, Newsroom is going to “zero base” our newscast production. That means we will start by going to air with only the most essential, basic, and manageable elements. To share a key quote from today’s meeting: “It is more important to get it right, than it is to get it on.” We may then build up again slowly as deadlines and workloads allow so that we can be sure we can quality check everything before it makes air, and we never having to explain, retract, qualify or apologize again. Please know that jobs are on the line here. I can not stress that enough.

[hatrack]

1. Some intern whose parents know someone in the production department and got him the unpaid gig . . .

nt

[Iggo]

2. Someone off-screen, I'm guessing. (n/t)

[reflection]

3. I still laugh

when I think about the Fox News crawler my wife and I saw one morning that said "FAMILY OF MAN WHO BLEW HIMSELF IN YEMEN INSISTS HE WAS NOT TERRORIST." Good stuff.

[DainBramaged]

15. "FAMILY OF MAN WHO BLEW HIMSELF "

people would pay to see that.

[StarfarerBill]

4. I'm still rooting for Beck to be shown the door...face-first.

[tabasco]

5. It will continue as usual at Faux News.

An unnamed, non-existent employee will be fired after every mistake from now on.

[flakey_foont]

6. Somehow

I don't think they will carry through on that

[BurtWorm]

12. Judging by past performance, we should know right away how tolerant of on-screen error they'll be

Considering their on-screen error average is a lot higher than the typical local public access news show.

[Orsino]

7. Fox is an on-screen error.

I suppose that their new policy simply means that when caught in fabrication, they'll deny it.

[leftofcool]

8. Zero Tolerance? Yea, right!

[nykym]

9. Now Bill we just

want you to say your sorry and you'll never ever do that again, wink wink!

[Xipe Totec]

10. We already knew that Fox News tolerates Zeroes. n/t

[pundaint]

11. And we believe FOX why?

[crazyjoe]

13. Fishbowl DC ?

[lpbk2713]

14. Some low level staffer will get the axe.

One of the assclowns like Beckerhead or Olouffa will screw up big time and it will be blamed
on some intern who is an assistant to an assistant and that's who will pay the ultimate price.

[OffWithTheirHeads]

16. Tucker Carelson

It's all his fault!

[FACTSfirst]

17. I hope they stick with it...

and piss off a lowly employee that will spill all the beans about Fox behind the scenes and what really goes on around there.

[Taverner]

18. If only it could be Glenn Beck

But it won't , it won't