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Following ThinkProgress’ report yesterday that Fox News had recycled old file footage of Sarah Palin rallies to assert that she is currently getting huge turnouts on her book tour, the network issued an on-air apology this afternoon. Fox’s Happening Now co-host Jane Skinner said it was mistake, but didn’t explain how it happened:
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 actually show you the video we were 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.
ThinkProgress’ report yesterday:
http://current.com/items/91490112_fox-news-is-at-it-again-reuses-old-footage-reports-it-as-new.htmFollowing ThinkProgress’ report yesterday that Fox News had recycled old file... more
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Last week, Jon Stewart and The Daily Show caught Fox News' Sean Hannity running old footage of September Tea Party crowds in an attempt to make Michele Bachmann's smaller November Tea Party shindig appear to be more well-attended than it was.
Is Fox News up to the same tricks today? Faiz Shakir at ThinkProgress thinks so, and he pulls a segment that seems to tout the crowds that greeted Sarah Palin on the stump during the 2008 campaign as throngs that are gathering to purchase Sarah Palin's book, 'Going Rogue.'
In the clip above, watch as Fox News anchor Gregg Jarrett describes "pictures just coming into us" as "huge crowds" that have amassed while Palin is "promoting her new book." The pictures that are supposedly "just coming in" are actually year-old video from the presidential campaign. Palin's book signing stop in Michigan drew 1,500 people.
UPDATE: Fox News issues an on-air apology for misleading footage of Sarah Palin crowds.
http://current.com/items/91496474_fox-news-issues-apology-for-misleading-footage-of-sarah-palin-crowds.htmLast week, Jon Stewart and The Daily Show caught Fox News' Sean Hannity running... more
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