'Live Desk' Follows Script of Fox News 'Insurgents thrilled @ Dem win' Memo

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http://www.newshounds.us/2006/11/15/live_desk_follows_script_of_fox_news_memo.php

'Live Desk' Follows Script of Fox News Memo



How closely did Fox News reporters follow the script laid out for them last Thursday (November 9, 2006) in that leaked memo obtained by Huffington Post? The evidence from Martha MacCallum's "Live Desk" for that day indicates she is one of the most loyal foot soldiers Fox News has.

The memo, by Fox's vice president for news, instructs staff members to be on the lookout for any information from insurgents in Iraq, who, the memo says "must be thrilled" at Democratic victories in last week's midterm elections.

The memo's wording may explain where Martha MacCallum got the idea for her report later that day that insurgents were "cheering in the streets" over the Democratic victories.

During the "Live Desk" show that aired the same day as the memo, MacCallum claimed without
providing any details or sources that there were "some reports of cheering in the streets on the behalf of the supporters of the insurgency in Iraq, that they’re very pleased with the way things are going here and also with the resignation of Donald Rumsfeld."

[pacalo]

1. Keith O had a good segment last night about the memo.

Americans are becoming more aware of how Fox operates, which is evidenced by the fact that Fox's ratings continue to go further down each month & the fact that someone in the Fox organization was apparently so fed up to have leaked the memo out to the press.

I hope this becomes a big story.

[Nickster]

2. That was a great segment. Glen Greenwald summed it up the best. Fox News

gives a script to their actors, and those actors read the script.