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Fox News again accused of airing misleading video

For the second time in just over a week, Fox News is coming under fire for misusing old news footage. The latest flap is leading some people to charge that the cable news network is intentionally misleading its audience, while Fox claims a "production error."

Wednesday's incident occurred when Fox News host Gregg Jarrett mentioned that a Sarah Palin appearance and book signing in Grand Rapids, Michigan had a massive turnout. As footage rolled of a smiling and waving Palin amidst a throng of fans, Jarrett noted that the former Republican vice-presidential candidate is "continuing to draw huge crowds while she's promoting her brand-new book,'' adding that the images being shown were "some of the pictures just coming in to us.... The lines earlier had formed this morning."

However, the video used in the segment was from a 2008 McCain/Palin campaign rally. In response to the minor uproar that arose after clips of Jarrett's report hit the Internet, Fox senior vice-president of news Michael Clemente issued an initial statement saying, "This was a production error in which the copy editor changed a script and didn't alert the control room to update the video."

On Thursday afternoon, Fox News issued an on-air apology delivered by host Jane Skinner:

Yesterday we told you about Sarah Palin kicking off her book tour and then we spoke to Sean Hannity about an interview that he did with former Governor Palin. When introducing the segment we showed you footage of people lining up in Michigan for a book signing that evening. In the tease before the segment, the tease to commercial, we told you how those people were already lining up to meet Palin. The problem is we didn't show you the video we were actually referencing. Instead we mistakenly aired what's called "file tape" of Sarah Palin. We didn't mean to mislead anybody in that tease. It was a mistake, and for that we apologize.

The current mishap comes on the heels of a controversy sparked last week when footage from a conservative rally held over the summer was played on "Hannity" during a segment on a more recent rally. During the clip, host Sean Hannity marveled over the large turnout for a Washington, DC protest. The Daily Show later pointed out that there seemed to be some inconsistencies with the video shown on Hannity's show, namely that the atmospheric conditions seemed to vary from shot to shot. Hannity later apologized on the air for what he called "an inadvertent mistake."

Barely a week into Palin’s blitz to promote “Going Rogue,” media coverage is becoming its own story. Fox News rival MSNBC caught heat last week for using altered images of Sarah Palin on the air, for which they later apologized. On Wednesday, Yahoo! News reported Newsweek’s defense of their latest controversial cover, which Palin herself blasted as “sexist.”

FOX News is bought and paid for by the Republican Party.
The Republican Party needs to be replaced as America's second major Political Party!

Who cares??---The prez just bowed down to some flunky communist!!!

Who?
I must have missed that.

Damn hell, you say that Fox's competition whom they kill in the ratings is accusing Fox of lying? Wholly cow, I'm glad the liberal movement is here to set the record straight.

NO, not just accusing, but caught them.
FOX News is admitting it but also saying it was an error. LMAO

Personally I don't care because I don't really believe any of them. But I am stating the obvious and that is Fox kills the comp so they pull this kind of stuff legit or not anytime they can.

Me either.
So lets forget FOX News and instead think about the Republican Party.
They fed talking points by way of so-called "expert" commentators about the war during the early days in Iraq.
They misrepresented the tea bag protests as being grass roots organized, and now they pump up fake crowds and such for their darling, I resign when it gets tough, Palin.

Come to think about it all, FOX News was a major accomplice in all that. Headlined by their team of Republican-biased talk show hosts.

Are we to continue to believe all of this is merely coincidence.
Only if we are blind....

With the exception of tea parties I agree with you, but don't forget that the CNN conglomerate is the mouth piece for the left and are just as guilty of misleading its fans as Fox is of misleading the right.

I have yet to see the proof to that effect.

The libs must be pretty hard up to report this news story.Is this the best they can do?Old video footage of Sarah signing a book?Funny how the libs can't stand Sarah palin and says she is a nobody,but they sure do a excellent job watching her every move.

All they did was give her more publicity and announce her book signing tour which will indeed give her more business as people will flock to see her.Nice job guys!Keep up the good work.

Sarah Palin proves herself incapable.
She bails out, Quits, her post as Governor when things got tough.
Do you really think she could handle being President, or even VP of the country?

LMAO.

Are you kidding?

If she's the best the Republicans have they must be really, really, really desperate.
Oh yeah, that's right, they are.

NO!

I (and I'm sure people will disagree) would like to dig up and use DNA from both Regan and Goldwater and splice it together and clone Barry Regan and put him in the White House.

As far as the Tea-bag Protest. It was Dick Armey and the Republican and his Republican backed action group who organized them. The only one which actually had a strong turn-out was the one in Atlanta, and FOX News was on hand there with a Broadcast Crew. They also had hired many music groups to play there. Most of the people showed up just for the music. Of course FOX news was on hand to portray the false assumption that the large crowd came for the tea-bag protests.

The 3,000 or so that was at the one here were here because were tired of our employees (congressmen and women and senators) not doing what we would like them too. Of course Fox would be there, why wouldn't they? This is right up there alley going after that "other" party. As far as the republicans staging all of this I'm not buying.

Nope.
I'm an Independent.
Always have been. Always will be.

As an unaffiliated and unbiased participant in every election since 1978, I can honestly say it is time for the Republican Party to cease as a major political Party in America.

They are corrupt to the core and bent on securing power despite America's best interests or the wishes of it's people.
They have no ethics.

Dick Armey admitted it.

Let me ask you something.
Have you ever seen an ex-President, after leaving office, be so quiet and invisible to the public as Bush?
And,
Why do you think that is so?