Media Matters: Hannity video switch-up is "tip of the iceburg" for Fox

[garybeck]

Hannity video switch-up is only the tip of Fox News' video-doctoring iceberg
Fox News has history of deceptively using video to advance dubious storylines
http://mediamatters.org/research/200911110019

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Beck claimed G-20 protesters in Pittsburgh carried a hammer-and-sickle symbol, but image actually came from a California school's "Class of 2007" mosaic. On the September 29 edition of his Fox News show, Glenn Beck claimed that "he very next day after the premiere" of Michael Moore's new film, Capitalism: A Love Story, "people were on the streets" of Pittsburgh protesting the G-20 summit "with this." Beck then aired an image of a hammer and sickle and read from the photo, "Oh, look at that -- 'Capitalism Will Fail' down there at the bottom." But the image Beck aired was not from the G-20 protests in Pittsburgh. Rather, as FoxNews.com reported on June 25, the image was of a "Class of 2007" mosaic painted by eighth-graders on tiles outside a Berkeley, California, school. The following is the image that Beck aired during his report....

Fox News presented deceptively cropped six-month-old Biden clip as new. During the March 16 edition of Fox News' The Live Desk, co-host Martha MacCallum ...

Ingraham used doctored video to smear Gore. On the May 1 edition of The O'Reilly Factor, during a segment suggesting that former Vice President Al Gore has profited from his advocacy of renewable energy and climate change mitigation, guest host Laura Ingraham presented

Hannity cropped comment to suggest Obama "blames America." On the April 3 edition of his Fox News show, Hannity played a clip of Obama ...

Fox News cropped Obama quote on empathy. During the May 1 edition of Special Report...

Fox News aired altered photos of NY Times reporters. On the July 2, 2008, edition of Fox News' ....


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details
http://mediamatters.org/research/200911110019

[WCGreen]

1. And remember, Randolph Hearst caused the Spanish American

War of 1898 by exploiting the dubious sinking of the Maine in Cuban waters...

This kind of crap has been going on since ink met paper and will continue to be...

It's a Free Press spelled out in the Constitution not a Free and Truthful Press...

Having said that, this, exposing their bull shit, is the best way to combat opinion disguised as news...

[Ineeda]

2. I wonder if Truth in Advertising laws could be applicable.

Not to content, but to promotion. Under the Federal Trade Commission Act:
* Advertising must be truthful and non-deceptive;
* Advertisers must have evidence to back up their claims; and
* Advertisements cannot be unfair.
So they could spin anything they wanted, but not claim to be truthful or 'fair and balanced.'

[zbdent]

3. not with their win in a court ...

[Ineeda]

4. How could I have forgotten?

But still, wasn't that about content? Doesn't advertising have different standards?

[zbdent]

5. I would think that their win in court saying that they can lie on the newscasts

would give them free reign on advertisements ...

Standards? On Faux? :rofl:

[Ineeda]

6. LOL So true. But maybe it's a loophole? n/t

[unblock]

8. their win in court said they could fire their own employees

it did not say anything else.

[formercia]

7. Advertising for a political agenda

Fox is trying to sell an ideology. It's a product, just like Corn Flakes or how to make money in real estate.

[SpiralHawk]

9. Fox = Pravda for the Republicon Homelanders Against America

A freaking republicon propaganda & lie catapult