GrowRebel
Well-Known Member
Yet another example of faux news and how they are not a real news channel ... hopefully they will be force to admit they are nothing more than entertainment ... not real news.
[URL="http://www.crooksandliars.com/2007/12/02/fox-news-hatchet-job-on-hostage-crisis-identifies-the-wrong-man/"]FOX NEWS hatchet job on Hostage crisis: Identifies the wrong man[/URL]
The way FOX handled the hostage crisis Friday at the Clinton campaign office was a travesty. Thanks to the [URL="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2007/11/30/fox-news-loves-the-hillar_n_74847.html"]The Huff Post, watch [/URL]these two clips and be horrified.
BraveNewFilms [URL="http://bravenewfilms.org/blog/20124-fox-blows-it"]has a great article also[/URL]:
[URL="http://www.crooksandliars.com/2007/12/02/fox-news-hatchet-job-on-hostage-crisis-identifies-the-wrong-man/"]FOX NEWS hatchet job on Hostage crisis: Identifies the wrong man[/URL]
The way FOX handled the hostage crisis Friday at the Clinton campaign office was a travesty. Thanks to the [URL="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2007/11/30/fox-news-loves-the-hillar_n_74847.html"]The Huff Post, watch [/URL]these two clips and be horrified.
Watch and listen as Carl Cameron repeatedly screams The SWAT truck is moving! back to Megyn Kelly in the newsroom. Dont miss Carl peering out of the vehicle, hand to forehead, trying to make out whats happening at the scene, and Megyns statement, This is incredible to watch!
BraveNewFilms [URL="http://bravenewfilms.org/blog/20124-fox-blows-it"]has a great article also[/URL]:
As if being busted for being an entertainment channel masquerading as a news organization isnt humiliating enough. Now FOX has embarrassed itself once again by breaking nearly every journalistic standard imaginable in covering the hostage situation at the Hillary Clinton campaign office in Rochester, NH. And in doing so, they may just have put the public safety and law enforcement lives in jeopardy.
Cameron reported the release of the female hostage this way.
She fits the description of your typical Clinton campaign volunteer.
Whats that mean Carl?
At 5:50PM NBC and CNN reported that the suspects name which they responsibly said they cannot confirm was not Troy Stanely at all but one Leeland Eisenberg. At 6:16PM Leeland Eisenberg surrendered peacefully. FOX News had mistakenly identified an innocent man as a hostage taker and a paranoid schizophrenic. I wonder if Troy Stanley knows a good lawyer; does anyone remember Richard Jewell and the Atlanta Olympics?
An addendum to this story. CNN revealed afterwards that the suspect Leeland Eisenberg and a hostage had called CNN hours before, in the middle of the crisis. As responsible journalists they made the decision not to air anything. Its too bad that FOX didnt adhere to the same professional standards and decided to put lives in jeopardy by racing to be first on the air with information that turned out to be wrong.
Knowing that they screwed this up do you think they will take the time to make a correction? Not faux ...