RE: [MLUG - DISCUSSION] Fox News Posted Fake Kerry Story

["Spurling, Shannon" <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

I don't know what the standards for web publishing review are, but I
would suspect that they are much more lax than for print media. I have
seen things on all kinds of news web sites that leads me to believe that
they run them as some sort of "Blog" for their reporters. Not just Fox,
but most of them.
The other thing to mote is the rapid retraction and apology they issued.

I remember some fake story someone posted on their web site, and a major
news outlet (Not Fox) picked it up and ran with it with out checking it
out... I think I was the dihydrogen monoxide thing, or something like
that. Any way, the point is this isn't the first and it's not going to
be the last. I think there is an opportunity for news organizations to
pick up the ball on web publishing and make sure they vet their sources,
but I think they won't because being the first to put the story up is
the name of the game. It always has been. Accuracy and fairness was
along for the ride. Now the web is a single seated sports car, and
there's no room for the other two any more. 

Shannon Spurling
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Sent: Tuesday, October 05, 2004 8:45 AM
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Subject: Re: [MLUG - DISCUSSION] Fox News Posted Fake Kerry Story

On Tue, 5 Oct 2004, Jonathan King wrote:

> This is old news.

It was three days old?  I just heard about it Monday night on The Daily 
Show (I think).  I guess I'm out of the loop.


> ...if an editor in your organization okays something like this, it's 
> presumably because he or she can't tell the difference between bold 
> fabrication and the stuff they usually run.

Interesting point!

Mike
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