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![]() Just Above Sunset
October 3, 2004 - Fair and Balanced, and Quite Often Mistaken
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Josh Marshall at Talking
Points Memo has been all over this story. It seems that Fox News on October 1 posted a retraction and apology for the piece with a whole bunch of fabricated Kerry quotes. … FOXNews.com posted an item purporting to contain quotations from Kerry. The item was based
on a reporter’s partial script that had been written in jest and should not have been posted or broadcast. We regret
the error, which occurred because of fatigue and bad judgment, not malice. Right. Rallying supporters in Tampa Friday, Kerry played up his performance in Thursday night's debate,
in which many observers agreed the Massachusetts senator outperformed the president. You get the idea. How odd. The quotes weren't all that funny, which may be why HQ didn't get the joke and passed
it along as the real thing. This kind of thing is an old journalism taboo that this Fox reporter apparently never learned:
Never create fake copy as a joke assuming it won't leave the newsroom, since too often it will do just that. Well, Fox News clearly
has little use for John Kerry, and now you know that Carl Cameron, the reporter in question, according to Fox spokesman Paul
Schur, Fox's “chief political correspondent” likes to make fun of him. Carl Cameron has been reprimanded,
according to Fox, but will stay in place. … What's the biggest problem with campaign journalism right now - particularly what appears
on page A1? So Kinsley is puzzled.
A group of people presents an array of outrageous bullshit denigrating a fellow who won lots of medals for valor and bravery
and all that, and say, well, they weren’t exactly there, but they don’t believe any of that bravery stuff, even
if the people who were actually there say it happened because those who were there actually saw it, and got to live another
day because the guy was brave. So they say we have no direct knowledge of this stuff, but we believe everyone, including
the Navy who awarded the medals, is probably lying. All you can report is that this is controversial? I guess.
Be fair to both sides. Be balanced. As Rick said back in August, the real problem with "fair and balanced," of
course, is that liars have an advantage. Of course, there were some Kerry supporters in attendance who had no doubts whatever about their
candidate. So Fox breaks the news
that there is a group of American communists for Kerry. Wow! "Communists for Kerry" is a campaign of the Hellgate Republican Club, a tax exempt non-partisan
public advocacy "527" organization that exists for the purpose of; _____ Addendum
from Rick, the News Guy in Atlanta – Late breaking news: FOXNews.com has slightly rewritten
that story, and has added this disclaimer at the end: Editor’s Note: In a version of this article that was published earlier, the Communists for Kerry group was portrayed as an organization that
was supporting John Kerry for president. FOXNews.com’s reporter asked the
group’s representative several times whether the group was legitimate and supporting the Democratic candidate, and the
spokesman insisted that it was. The Communists for Kerry group is, in fact, a
parody organization. PS:
I
suppose I should have somehow worked in something about Fox's doing a flip-flop, but I don't have the time to be clever right
now. Comment
from Just Above Sunset – So they asked these folks several times
if they were kidding, if they were pranksters, and were told no, they were the real thing.
Honest, they were. Aren’t reporters supposed to check their sources
– you know, do a bit of digging? That was Dan Rather’s problem, wasn’t
it? Why is it not Fox’s problem?
“We were assured that….” Sorry, that just doesn’t cut it. What prompted
the Fox reporter to ask that question several times, and then, what prompted that same Fox reporter, in spite of her skepticism,
to then just take their word for it? Was she just being sloppy and this was an
unfortunate lapse? Fox doesn’t believe that about Rather
over at CBS, as they think (and scowl) that he has an agenda, to bring down Bush. What
are we to think here?
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