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struggle4progress Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-05-10 08:39 PM
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So much for "zero tolerance" (MediaMatters re: Fox news errors)
January 05, 2010 2:19 pm ET by Matt Gertz

... Yesterday, Fox & Friends co-host Gretchen Carlson falsely claimed that ACORN CEO Bertha Lewis had visited the White House in September. Carlson's claim was presumably based on Breitbart's report that a "Bertha E. Lewis" - who he claimed was the ACORN CEO - turned up in the White House visitor logs released in December ...

After Carlson regurgitated this right-wing falsehood that had been debunked days earlier, Ari Rabin-Havt, Media Matters' Vice President for Communications and Research, wrote a letter to Fox News Senior Vice President Michael Clemente asking how this error would be handled in light of the "zero tolerance" policy the network supposedly instituted in November.

We haven't heard back ...

http://mediamatters.org/blog/201001050032
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