Fox Cooking the Books, Part 2

On November 11th, I noted how Fox "News" had been caught splicing film footage from multiple events -- without disclosure -- in an effort to lie to the public. They are at it again. Do they not understand that folks are watching?

From Rachel Slajda of TPM:

Yesterday afternoon, Fox News used footage from 2008 McCain-Palin rallies when talking about the "crowds" coming out to see Sarah Palin on her book tour, which started yesterday.

Today, they issued an on-air apology for the mistake.

"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," said a host of Happening Now.

As Josh Marshall of TPM noted:

We just had that new daily segment on Fox News where they apologize for getting caught using phony video to inflate GOP crowd sizes the previous day.

Fun new segment.

LOL. Of course, I would laugh harder if it were actually a mistake.

19 November 2009