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

[Vern Green <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

I am not going to defend Fox News on this one. I do believe that it
was a mistake, joke or whatever, and this position is supported by Fox
News' actions dealing with the story.

There is one key difference here between Dan Rather's little issue and
Fox News' issue. Dan Rather went on National television to what? 6, 7,
10 million viewers and put forth falsehoods as fact. This guy posted a
story on a website that gets a visitorship of a couple hundred
thousand per day?

Not defending, believe me, I think Fox did what they had to do, they
apologized and took the offending article down immediately, they did
not defend the story for a week before they took these actions.

Does this negate Fox's claims of being fair and balanced? In some
circles it probably lends itself to have this interpretation. I
personally do not take a lot of influence from it.


On Tue, 5 Oct 2004 09:06:30 -0500, Spurling, Shannon <EMAIL:PROTECTED> wrote:
> 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.
> 
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> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:EMAIL:PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mike Miller
> 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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