"Sorry we fucked up re: Palin book signing footage"

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.

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

Only at News Corp!

So, Fox was planning to read a story about a Palin campaign rally from last year yesterday, but some nameless copy editor suddenly handed Jarrett a script about Palin's book signing that day? I know that Fox doesn't have a real high estimate of their viewers' intelligence (and well they should not), but this "explanation" would strain even their credulity.

Blame it on the little guy at the bottom of the food chain... yeah, they're a class act.

no more candy for you!

Faux Spews 'shenanigi' do you think any of this stuff would be corrected now? They are only making corrections because they have recently been on the hotseat. As soon as the focus is off, (and hopefully it won't be) it'll be business as usual.

My guess is yes.

I've worked in TV for 10 years and I can tell you, this was no "error" , they knew exactly what they were doing when they did it :eyes:

The one I remember is when it was widely reported that McWar and Barbie were at a Va. rally and Fox misreported their attendance by a factor of 10. We were sitting here trying to figure out how so many people could take off work on a Wednesday or something to go see Palin and, they didn't.

I'd bet any amount of money the producer was looking at the crowds in the footage they had from the current events and they didn't look big enough so he told the editor to pull some campaign footage.

about them not being a News channel.

you folks became almost too predictable!

Every single time a rethug gets caught with his pants down thy mysteriously have a "chyron error" that somehow pops a "D" where the "R" should be...my ass :eyes:

just needs a little photoshopping & it's good-to-go

or her numbers just tank even more. They'll be putting a (D) after her name.

they don't get caught again.