It's way too early in the fucking morning to need a drink.

[kellinator]

Thanks to karnythia, I now know that Bill O'Reilly and Fox News repeatedly mislabeled Mark Foley a Democrat. Can't we file a class-action lawsuit to make them accurately label themselves Fox Propaganda?

Comments

[reannon.livejournal.com]

As a journalist, sorry, this is a firing offense. But Fox just shrugs its shoulders and says it doesn't care. O'Reilly is not separate from Fox - ultimately the newspaper or the network bears the responsibility for ethical behavior and verification of truth. The instant it went up the first time someone should have yanked it down to fix it. For it to appear three separate times is not negligence. It is deliberate.

[dwivian]

Who at O'Reilly would you fire? The graphics team? The programming editor? Or is there someone in there that is supposed to do fact-checking and verification of the graphics?

I really don't know the process for getting graphics up on a commentary show (for live TV it goes quickly and we expect mistakes like the CNN "Shuttle going 10x the speed of light" mistake, but I would hope that for something like O'Reilly they'd take more time to get it right, and that it'd have some kind of oversight). Since these shows tend to be 'in the can' before going on, how would you suggest that it be yanked down when noticed? Is there a way to insert improved or repaired graphics on the fly? That'd be far too cool!

[dwivian]

kellinator has asked that I not continue this line of questions on her journal. I respect that, so I've opened up a post for replies. I really am interested in your answer and your take on how Fox might have responded, and how fact checking is done on canned shows. I'm really out of my element there, and I'd appreciate anything you could share. Thanks!

[ellimayhem.livejournal.com]

kellinator has asked that I not continue this line of questions on her journal. I respect that,

Wow, and it only took you 15 lengthy comments to figure that out and decide to "respect" it.

Any reply on your part will be deleted unread and not responded to. This "conversation" is over.