It’s not uncommon for Fox News to make typos and air mistakes, intentional or not, and their religious bias is hardly a secret. But this one is more than a simple mistake. In a piece about an atheist group, the following graphic was included, which incorrectly names the co-president of the Freedom From Religion Foundation. [...]
Written on February 2, 2010 | Posted in
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Copy/paste mistakes can be embarrassing… Last night, around the time of President Obama’s State of the Union speech, Fox News’ White House correspondent Major Garrett, apparently, made one of those mistakes. He intended to direct followers to excerpts of the speech, but sent people a NSFW site instead.
For those who don’t know, people on Twitter [...]
Written on January 28, 2010 | Posted in
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As reported, Fox & Friends manipulated a Rasmussen poll to show that more people think that scientists falsified data to support Global Warming. The error was obvious and inexcusable, especially in light of the new Fox News “zero tolerance policy” for such mistakes.
Media Matters for America sent an open letter to Fox News senior vice [...]
Written on December 10, 2009 | Posted in
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Normally, Fox News Channel airs a taped version of The O’Reilly Factor, but last night’s was, apparently, a live broadcast, which Bill O’Reilly seemed to forget at one moment. When he mistakenly started to refer to Osama bin Laden as “Obama,” he mentioned having to “cut that again.”
O’REILLY: Pinheads and patriots, on deck, tonight starring [...]
Written on December 2, 2009 | Posted in
Bill O'Reilly
The Fox News’ local Chicago affiliate used some fuzzy math to show the division of favorability between the leading GOP candidates for nomination in 2012, Sarah Palin, Mike Huckabee and Mitt Romney. The poll, on which the pie chart below was based, shows Palin with 70%, Huckabee with 63% and Romney with 60%. Folks, that’s [...]
Written on November 24, 2009 | Posted in
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In the wake of getting caught using incorrect and misleading video footage twice in about a week, Fox News has issued a memo that emphasizes a new “zero tolerance” policy regarding “on-screen errors.” Two recent events that prompted this, of course, are the Sarah Palin book signing coverage using 2008 election footage and the use [...]
Written on November 23, 2009 | Posted in
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It’s getting cliche to say another day, another Fox News “mistake,” but that’s what Fox News is claiming now that they’ve been caught, yet again, using old footage from past events in stories run for current events.
Just recently Jon Stewart aired part of a Sean Hannity report about the Bachmann rally in which FNC used [...]
Written on November 19, 2009 | Posted in
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Sarah Palin
In the Politics section on FoxNews.com there was a headline that read, “Security Chiefs Way Risks to Modernized ‘Smart’ Grid Electrical System,” but now correctly reads, “Security Chiefs Weigh Risks to Modernized ‘Smart’ Grid Electrical System” (emphasis added). Here’s a screenshot showing the error:
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Written on October 27, 2009 | Posted in
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Fox News must like the health care reform package put forth by Sen Max Baucus (D-MT) because they just claimed him as a Republican… They’re known for doing the opposite for Republicans who get caught doing stupid things, i.e. labeling Gov. Mark Sanford (R-SC) as a Democrat when he admitted to having an affair.
Written on September 17, 2009 | Posted in
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As mentioned previously, Fox News has a history of getting information, such as party affiliation, wrong on their broadcasts, intentional, or not. But how many times does it take to not be a coincidence or accident? Rep. Joe Sestak (D-PA) was renamed Rep. Joke Sestak (D-PA) on the August 17 edition of Fox & Friends.
Written on August 17, 2009 | Posted in
Fox & Friends
