{"id":6903,"date":"2009-02-10T12:38:30","date_gmt":"2009-02-10T20:38:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bradblog.com\/?p=6903"},"modified":"2009-02-11T16:50:38","modified_gmt":"2009-02-12T00:50:38","slug":"fox-news-report-on-stimulus-replicated-from-gop-press-release-typos-and-all","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=6903","title":{"rendered":"Fox ‘News’ ‘Report’ on Stimulus, Replicated from GOP Press Release, Typos and All"},"content":{"rendered":"

Via Media Matters…<\/a>During Fox “News'” Happening Now<\/i> show this morning, host Jon Scott claimed “the Senate is expected to pass the $838 billion stimulus plan — its version of it, anyway. We thought we’d take a look back at the bill, how it was born, and how it grew, and grew, and grew…”<\/p>\n

Trouble is, the “we” Scott mentions wasn’t Fox. It was the Senate Republican Communications Center (SRCC), and the resultant “news” analysis, was virtually an exact repetition of a news release the SRCC issued earlier today.
\n<\/param><\/param><\/embed><\/object>In addition to turning the exact quotes from the press releases into graphics, Fox even replicated a typo from one of them, on the final graphic, as referring to a Wall Street Journal<\/i> report from “12\/9\/09.” (That’s almost a year from<\/i> now, for those not paying too close attention.)<\/p>\n

Video of the Fox “News” “report” is at right, and you may compare it to the SRCC’s press release — including the typo — here<\/a>. (We’ve taken the liberty of archiving the original version here<\/a>, just in case they decide to change it.<\/em>)<\/p>\n

Other than that, the outfit is completely legitimate, like totally<\/i> fair and balanced, and not associated with the Republican Party in any<\/i> way.<\/p>\n

UPDATE 2\/11\/09:<\/strong><\/em> After a day of getting pounded by the media for the above, Fox News issues an apology…for the typo<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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