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Monday Oct 4, 2004 10:33 am
Fox News Channel admits reporter posted fake story about Kerry
Anyone think this guy should be fired? I can only imagine the uproar if CNN had posted something equaly malicious about Bush.
Fox News Channel admits reporter posted fake story about Kerry
WASHINGTON (AFP) - An official at Fox News Channel said that one of its political reporters has been disciplined for posting a fake news item on its website about Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry (news - web sites).
Paul Schur, a spokesman for the network, said Fox's chief political correspondent Carl Cameron had been disciplined for posting an item on FoxNews.com that included several made-up quotes attributed to Kerry.
"Carl has been reprimanded," Schur said Sunday, defining further comment.
The article alleged to cover a post-debate rally by Kerry at which the Massachusetts senator was purported to gush over his "metrosexual" appearance.
"Didn't my nails and cuticles look great? What a good debate!" the article by the Cameron read, purportedly quoting Kerry after the event.
"Women should like me! I do manicures," the story also quotes Kerry as telling the crowd.
The article also has the Democratic candidate contrasting himself to US President George W. Bush (news - web sites)
"I'm metrosexual -- he's a cowboy," Cameron quoted Kerry as saying.
Officials for Fox, which has been criticized for being biased towards Bush's Republican party, decline to explain how the spoof article ended up on the network's website.
A statement by Fox on the website Sunday apologized for the article, saying it was a joke.
"Foxnews.com erred ... on Friday, posting an item purporting to contain quotes attributable to Kerry," the statement read.
"The item was based on a reporters partial script that had been written in jest and should not have been posted or broadcast. Foxnews.com also regrets that error, which occurred because of fatigue and bad judgment, not malice."
Fox News Channel admits reporter posted fake story about Kerry
WASHINGTON (AFP) - An official at Fox News Channel said that one of its political reporters has been disciplined for posting a fake news item on its website about Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry (news - web sites).
Paul Schur, a spokesman for the network, said Fox's chief political correspondent Carl Cameron had been disciplined for posting an item on FoxNews.com that included several made-up quotes attributed to Kerry.
"Carl has been reprimanded," Schur said Sunday, defining further comment.
The article alleged to cover a post-debate rally by Kerry at which the Massachusetts senator was purported to gush over his "metrosexual" appearance.
"Didn't my nails and cuticles look great? What a good debate!" the article by the Cameron read, purportedly quoting Kerry after the event.
"Women should like me! I do manicures," the story also quotes Kerry as telling the crowd.
The article also has the Democratic candidate contrasting himself to US President George W. Bush (news - web sites)
"I'm metrosexual -- he's a cowboy," Cameron quoted Kerry as saying.
Officials for Fox, which has been criticized for being biased towards Bush's Republican party, decline to explain how the spoof article ended up on the network's website.
A statement by Fox on the website Sunday apologized for the article, saying it was a joke.
"Foxnews.com erred ... on Friday, posting an item purporting to contain quotes attributable to Kerry," the statement read.
"The item was based on a reporters partial script that had been written in jest and should not have been posted or broadcast. Foxnews.com also regrets that error, which occurred because of fatigue and bad judgment, not malice."
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THe article was obviously satire. A complete non-event.
Yeah, right, noBigDeal.
By SIOBHAN McDONOUGH, Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON - Fox News apologized Friday for posting phony quotes from Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry (news - web sites) on its Web site.
Carl Cameron, a Fox reporter who covers the Kerry campaign, wrote an item that looked like a news story with made-up Kerry quotes, said Paul Schur, a Fox spokesman. The item was not intended to be posted on the site.
“Carl made a stupid mistake which he regrets,” Schur said Friday night. “And he has been reprimanded for his lapse in judgment. It was a poor attempt at humor.”
Carl Cameron is a piece of garbage and should be fired. He knew what he was doing and was probably told to post it. His editor should be fired as well.
The Swift Boat Vets “mistakenly” posted a web site and went on national TV to point out things Kerry had allegedly done, which were later found to be lies.
So the GOP are liars. And from what I keep hearing from all these religious people, they’re supposed to be the party on the side of God.
Isn’t that a sin? Isn’t making up some reason to bomb the living crap out of a starved nation to steal their resources a sin? Or killing children in the process? Or justifying the ends for the means? Or cutting taxes for corporations like Frito Lay so they can post a 6.7% profit gain from last year AND LAY OFF 720 PEOPLE!!!! so they can give their shareholders more money?
Still think it’s “noBig Deal”?
How about when they want to march into Iran and more people you know have to go die in no-win neo-Vietnam?
Still think it’s “noBig Deal”?
Or when the biggest hypocrite and blabber-mouth for the GOP advocates sending drug users to prison for life while he himself is hooked on illegal prescription drugs, but “oh, we have to pray for him”.
Still think it’s “noBig Deal”?
I see that this has gotten equal treatment in the media, as did the Dan Rather/CBS use of a non-authenticated document (though never proved to be either fake or real).
hohoho-boy those dems are a bunch of hippy drug smokin tokin snortin dumasses hohoho let me tell you hohoho…bush has done the right thing (for the very rich) and rummy dummy has helped us to move on the enemy the people and asscrack has given us the plan to do it right because UNITED WE STAND…hey uh -er um what do we stand for um some one wanna finish this open ended phrase…how about united we stand ...in line to be slaughtered by our very leaders heil bush!
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