{"id":3583,"date":"2006-10-06T15:05:12","date_gmt":"2006-10-06T22:05:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bradblog.com\/?p=3583"},"modified":"2008-02-08T14:01:10","modified_gmt":"2008-02-08T22:01:10","slug":"foxoreilly-producer-admits-no-correction-per-se-on-labelling-foley-as-democrat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=3583","title":{"rendered":"Fox\/O’Reilly Producer Admits No Correction ‘Per Se’ on Labelling Foley as Democrat"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/a>Editor & Publisher<\/i> published a comment today<\/a> from the Executive Producer of Fox “News'” O’Reilly Factor<\/i> on their having run a title under video of Rep. Mark Foley — three different times, in two different segments — which labeled the now-disgraced, now-former Republican Congressman as a Democrat<\/i>:<\/p>\n

“Once it came to our attention, we removed the incorrect chyron immediately,” said David Tabacoff, executive producer of the Fox News Channel show hosted by Bill O’Reilly, who also does a newspaper column distributed by Creators Syndicate. “We didn’t run a correction per se.”
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\nTabacoff told E&P late Thursday that “everyone knows” Foley — who resigned his House seat after revelations that he sent sexually charged messages to teen Congressional pages — is a Republican. So “The O’Reilly Factor,” he said, didn’t feel it was necessary to run a specific on-air correction on its Wednesday show. But Tabacoff emphasized that when Foley was pictured on “The O’Reilly Factor” after Tuesday, he was correctly identified as a Republican.<\/p>\n

“It was an honest mistake,” Tabacoff said of the Tuesday mislabeling.<\/p><\/div>\n

The BRAD BLOG orginally broke<\/a> the story of Fox’s egregious “error” last Tuesday.<\/p>\n

We followed up<\/a> with a report on AP having done a similar thing the next day, though they had the journalistic integrity (unlike Fox “News”) to issue a correction statement when the problem was found.<\/p>\n

Yesterday ran we ran another follow-up<\/a> on O’Reilly and Fox’s failure to publicly correct or even acknowledge the “error,” indisputably closing any further debate on whether Fox is actually a news organization. It isn’t. We included links to videos of both The Daily Show’s<\/i> and MSNBC Countdown’s<\/i> coverage of same in that last report<\/a>.<\/p>\n

UPDATE 10\/10\/06 4:52pm PT<\/b>: Now NewsMax.com says Foley a “Democrat”!…<\/a><\/p>\n

UPDATE 2\/8\/08<\/em><\/b>: Fox now shows presumptive Republican Presidential candidate John McCain also<\/i> as a Democrat! Screenshot…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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