MSNBC Host Apologizes For Using Fake Palin Pics

WillRockwell · 11-19-09, 11:41 AM

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Originally Posted by Scarecrow Akhbar

Fair enough for this case.

I don't recall MSNBC even acknowledging, let alone apologizing for it's deliberate injection of race into an incident during the summer's townhall scenes by focusing on the guns a man was wearing at one event and raising questions about anti-Obama racism.....when the the fact was revealed....on Fox....that the wide shot of the man with the guns showed him to be blacker than the president.

THAT was typical of MSNBC's urge to promote their vision, not deliver news.

Only fools watch MSNBC.

Sorry, you're not qualified to decide who is a fool.

Crunch · 11-19-09, 11:42 AM

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Originally Posted by PogueMoran

which piece was serious which one was a joke? Hannitys piece had the footage marked as earlier. Speaking of racism wasnt it fox and friends that put up the edited photos of two jewish reporters that made them look nefarious? They darkened their eyes, accentuated their noses, yellowed their teeth. Just this week gregg jarrett used stock footage from a mccain/palin rally from 2008 to illustrate sarah palin drawing huge crowds from her book tour.

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More than 1,000 people showed up for the chance to get Palin's autograph on her just-released memoir, Going Rogue. First in line was Lucy Vigmostad from Brighton, Mich., who arrived at 9 p.m. Tuesday and spent her 18th birthday waiting for her heroine to arrive.

Palin launches book tour in Michigan - USATODAY.com

RightinNYC · 11-19-09, 12:42 PM

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Originally Posted by WillRockwell

It doesn't work that way. Interns at news organizations do not make creative decisions by themselves. The footage Hannity tried to pass off as Bachman's rally had to be ordered up from the news library, probably by an Associate Producer. It had to be matched into the package by an editor, then approved by a producer and screened by a Senior Producer. It was no accident, no mixup, it was done on purpose, and provides insight to the lack of professional integrity at the Fox operation.

And you're basing this on...? Simple screw-ups like this happen all the time, as seen in the MSNBC example that prompted this thread. It doesn't mean there was nefarious intent.

edit: Seriously people, use your ****ing heads.

What does fox really have to gain by intentionally using the wrong footage from the tea party thing? Even if we buy the claim that they are directly interested in boosting the success of these things, how does using fake footage help? If they wanted to give the impression of large crowds, they could just use some interestingly angled shots from the proper rally. Every cameraman who has the slightest clue of what they're doing knows how to frame a shot so as to make it seem like there are more people than there are. Furthermore, Fox knows that there are crazies watching every single thing that they do, who pray for things like this to happen so that they can ramp up the criticism.

So, given these facts, why on earth would Fox deliberately lie about something that a) Doesn't materially help them, b) Is entirely unnecessary, and c) Will certainly be caught?

Ockham · 11-19-09, 12:44 PM

Intent is very difficult to prove in a court of law and near impossible on an internet forum.

PogueMoran · 11-19-09, 01:13 PM

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Originally Posted by Crunch

Palin launches book tour in Michigan - USATODAY.com

Which has nothing to do with a news program using footage from last years election saying were getting pictures coming in while talking about her book tour. Again i ask the question what is a political operative like roger ailes, who worked for nixon reagan and bush, doing running a news channel? Which other networks are run by political operatives of a major political party in the us?

goldendog · 11-19-09, 02:02 PM

JEEEZZZZZ...the fact that this person even bothered to apologize shows their true level of integrity...But I gotta say the only people that were stupid enough to actually believe that these were not photoshopped were her wacko followers who will whine about anything to keep her in the news.

They should just give her all of their money so she can hurry up and quit on them too.

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goldendog Banned Join Date: May 2009 Last Seen: 12-02-09 04:13 PM Posts: 4,695 Thanks: 674 Thanked 475 Times in 338 Posts Lean: Private	Re: MSNBC Host Apologizes For Using Fake Palin Pics JEEEZZZZZ...the fact that this person even bothered to apologize shows their true level of integrity...But I gotta say the only people that were stupid enough to actually believe that these were not photoshopped were her wacko followers who will whine about anything to keep her in the news. They should just give her all of their money so she can hurry up and quit on them too.

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