It was no mistake, the idiots at that station should be fired and tried on character assignation.

False reporting inciting violence wtf already?

I'm curious.

know that fox exists solely to advance the rightwing agenda of hate and destruction.

A "news"organization that edits film to deliberately tell a lie, much less such an inflammatory lie should be illegal and punishable by imprisonment.

across the country? And under what guidelines will they determine what's a lie? And under which party's administration will those guidelines be set?

Those questions make all the difference.

Editing a video to intentionally misrepresent people like what was done here does not need "guidelines" the altered video speaks for itself and the intent behind it.

What level is acceptable? Again, who determines and assures us that it's not misrepresented?

...would be charged with

No one. Fox News successfully argued in court some years ago that they are under no obligation to either truth or accuracy.

not to be confused with the regular Fox station which is local news and should be subject to FCC regulations.

There needs to be REAL consequences for a news agency deliberately fabricating the news.

it is ok for them to lie because they "are not news, they are entertainment." They can legal lie, distort, and fabricate whatever they want now without repercussions. This allows full on propaganda directed at Americans to be legal. Sorry Mr. Cronkite!

Thanks for the input. I'll have to look that up and file it....

But the court case wasn't involving Fox News but a local Tampa affiliate.

http://www.snopes.com/politics/business/foxlies.asp

The Fox station is owned by Sinclair broadcasting and FCC complaints and comments should be made against them.

NBC did so as an original source.

This one report about FOX station altering the news to fit its bias, becomes the news scandal of the decade..

with it, raised it repeatedly, even after we all here at DU knew the truth...and repeated his show in the evening long after....

Protest should be hel at all the major networks over this and much, much else.

They and many, many web news sites need to front page apologies.

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dangerous crime.

We should not let it go.

... that Comcast cares more about "journalism" than Fox does.

The time when one could take something on faith because they saw it on the TV news has been over for about a decade, Fred. Try to keep up.

and soaked into the brains of the target audience(don't know how I said that with a straight face), should be required to issue a ten minute correction every hour for the next month. Undoing the damage that their help cause will not be easy.

That's what FOX and most of right wing talk radio does. The purpose is to separate people. People united in communities educate themselves to solve problems. Educated people pose a threat to those in power. Strong, healthy communities pose a threat to those in power. People questioning the status quo and actively looking for ways to make their lives and communities better pose a threat to those in power. The job of FOX News and hate radio is to create divisions in society. People divided will expend all their energy hating and/or fearing others not in their group and they won't focus on the bigger picture of "society". FOX News is like heroin or meth, it destroys people and communities, that's it's sole purpose. FOX News leads citizens toward totalitarianism-"Your community and people are sick, you are incapable of making your community work, you need a strong government/police/leader to take care of your problems." Not hating is the only anti-dote to their venom.

Then writing to Gawker,CNN etc.

that lie is now the truth.

You will NOT be able to tell ANY rightwinger or teaparty person the truth about this, they are NOT having it.

Like the IRS, Benghazi, Fast and Furious.

true, but if anything they are even more dug in now than ever.

That shit was on purpose.

they don't give two shits about Ms. Jones or the fact that they might have ruined her life. I would say they should all end up in prison for trying to incite national riots, but this is the M$M as we know it now.

themselves for torturing words and the truth.

I wish the protestors would also protest in front of media corporate headquarters as well, because I can't breath with all those lies stepping on my neck.

None of us can breath with this amount of injustice.

So there is no protection there.

The less public ownership, the more private discretion, even if one thinks they can't trust the hemmed in government. Trying to get accountability from a corporation is like talking a mob boss who will ask you which leg you want capped if you don't like things.

It's the failure of participation and vision from individuals that allows this state of affairs, and it's been carefully crafted from years of media programming. It's all been normalized and the people let them get away with it because they want a quick fix and don't want to get their hands dirty with politics.

And that is where we are, with the dirtiest hands controlling the states where the worst of this goes on. Although FNN, CNN and now ABC, NBC and CBS are no better and have brought those mores to the entire nation.

The laws were changed so that about a half dozen rightwing billionaires control all the venues of information. And they have for a long time. We are camping on their property like the internet, just consumers and not producers, is their mindset.

That article is a nice idea if the FCC was in the same society it was when those laws meant the FCC could go out and police the private sector. They are all starved for funds, as people bought in the small government mantra. Meaning we would no longer have a We the People government, which had to be a big government to do the job, as there are over 300 million of us now who need solutions.

By such methods as tax cuts, they have allowed the crooks free rein in everything.

Oh, and Happy Holidays. Not snarking, really.

Because of Nazi propaganda like that.

I doubt they will apologize or even acknowledge they were in error.

massive mass media propganda.

You are right, we need to protest right out in front of these news studios.

I applauded the protester that confronted the hypocrisy of this right station and its right wing tools of deceit and deception and the people at this station knowingly providing misinformation to the public to continue to inflame a situation and to the outright propaganda.
But there needs to be more.


This station and other stations that are supposedly independently owned , so that they can provide cover from the Fox 20th Century brand and his (Murdoch) right wing empire, (just look at the murder of British girl in England and the Sun Newspaper) have no morality or conscience in there actions spreading and inciting fear and hate and what this blatant attempt of deception does for and too the community and the society is a disservice in journalism and other societal actions and wants and needs for transparency in the news source

grr:

This right wing propaganda machine is nothing more than an extension of Ailes time with a corrupt president by the name of Richard M. Nixon, when he (Ailes blamed the so called liberals for the actions transpiring in the 1969 -1974) he (Ailes) was and has been under Nixon's ,Reagan, Giuliani, G.H.W.Bush employ and under Murdoch (FIX Noise Chairman) as "media consultant", look at what the above have said in past remarks and there actions speak volumes of the hypocrisy for what was happening in the White House and New York, this is what needs to be protested on daily basis.


This so called apology is nothing more than an ACT to deflect there operating procedures which they will continue later on into the future, look no further than the crew like Hannity, Hasselbeck, Stossel, O'Reilly and the other team mates of deceit and deception.


This owner and its license needs to be pulled.
WE the public give this owner the privilege to operate under rules of OUR airwaves, and if they cannot fulfill that responsibility then questions and comments to the FCC need to be addressed to this, and done a strong coordinated function.

after the fact. It's too bad we don't have people picketing their station immediately after their lies.

eta: we need to hire people just to picket their station, just like they hire people to to blog attack.

http://open.salon.com/blog/christopher_di_spirito/2009/08/10/gop_paying_trolls_to_blog_attack

Police, prison guards and all 'hired guns' already think and treat our society, "the people" like we are the enemy.

Will O Reilly will announce tonite that Fox News has fired the station manager and all who reported this insult to journalistic integrity?....

No he won't...it will not be mentioned at all....ever..and it was no mistake...

Howard Stern gets fined thousands of dollars for saying the word fuck over the air but these clowns can simply manufacture their own propaganda? That doesn't make any sense to me. Once upon a time, creating and disseminating propaganda was a crime.

This sort of cutting/splicing/manipulation happens all the time. Fox only apologized because Gawker made a big deal out of it. Most of the time, however, reporters get away with it.

There needs to be some sort of official watchdog group or ethics body that normal people can complain to without having to get a lawyer or have connections to Gawker.

Hearst discovered the power and we have been suffering for hundreds of years with media as master .