Re: [MLUG - DISCUSSION] [POLITICS] O'Reilly on Foley affair

["Venkat Chandra" <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

Seems like they incorrectly identified Foley as a Democrat more than
once this past week...

http://www.boingboing.net/2006/10/04/fox_news_identifies_.html

- V.


On 10/5/06, Mike Miller <EMAIL:PROTECTED> wrote:
> On Thu, 5 Oct 2006, Stephen Montgomery-Smith wrote:
>
> > Mike Miller wrote:
> >> Here's how Bill O'Reilly's people dealt with the Foley problem:
> >>
> >> http://news.google.com/news?q=foley%20%22d-fl%22
> >>
> >> They just changed his caption from "Mark Foley (R-FL)" to "Mark Foley
> >> (D-FL)".  That washes away all the embarrassment and everything is OK
> >> again!
> >
> > Probably an honest mistake.  I cannot see Bill O'Reilly doing this to
> > purposely mislead.  Probably he will own up to this mistake today or
> > tomorrow.
>
> Let us know if he does that and you hear about it.
>
> I don't think O'Reilly did it himself.  Someone else does the graphics
> work.  I will bet that Fox News will say it was a mistake -- of course! --
> but it will be interesting to see if we get any analysis of their error
> rate.  My guess is that it is very low.  My guess is that it was not a
> mistake, but that it might not have been a conspiracy.  It only takes one
> person to get it wrong.
>
> Mike
>
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