Tuesday, November 24, 2009

Fox News: News for stupid people.


It's like the Three Stooges meets The Lucy Show ... or some analogy equally demeaning:

Fox News Threatens Pink Slips For On-Screen Errors

After a rash of mistakes and apologies over the past weeks, Fox News has sent a memo to employees announcing a new "zero tolerance" policy for on-screen errors...

Fox has had three much-noticed errors in the past few weeks. First, Sean Hannity used misleading footage to beef up attendance numbers at a Capitol Hill tea party rally -- an incident that caught the attention of the Daily Show's Jon Stewart, forcing Hannity to apologize on air.

Then, last week, one of the midday news shows aired footage of an old Sarah Palin campaign rally to show the "crowds" at her current book tour. An anchor apologized a day later, and Fox blamed a "production error."

Finally, in another segment about Palin's book, the network showed the cover of a satire book called "Going Rouge" instead of her actual memoir, "Going Rogue."

Tune in next week when Fox once again dishonestly inflates the attendance at another wingnut gathering. That will be due to a "production error." You read it here first.

3 comments:

Romantic Heretic said...

Ah. The Ministry of Truth. Ya gotta love 'em.

Sparky said...

Still nada on the apology front for putting 'd's behind the names of disgraced republicans...
Not surprising...

Luna said...

At least the last one was funny!