Regret the Error

Fox News issued an on air apology yesterday after it ran images of chairman of the House Judiciary Committee John Conyers of Michigan when reporting on the corruption indictment of Rep. William Jefferson of Louisanna. TalkingPointsMemo.com has the offending video here. The New York Sun has background here and here.
The apology read out on air was: "Yesterday at this time, news of the indictment of Congressman William
Jefferson came down. We mistakenly ran the wrong video to accompany
this story and we apologize for that error." 
The New York Sun reports that Fox anchor Martha
MacCallum "told viewers at about 1:20 p.m. [yesterday]. The 10-second apology
made no reference to Mr. Conyers and did not explain why or how the
erroneous video made it to air."
Valid points. At the very least, it should have named Conyers as the offended party in order to clear his name. And an apology to him would have been appropriate. (The network did call his office to apologize.)

UPDATE: TVNewser reports that Fox has aired another apology. This one is more complete and better serves viewers and Conyers.  Good for Fox for coming back to this and making a proper correction:

On Monday in our report on the indictment of William Jefferson, in error we aired some video of Congressman John Conyers of Michigan.
That
tape was labeled ‘a meeting about William Jefferson’ and it was
mistaken as video portraying Mr. Jefferson. We regret this mistake. We
in no way meant to suggest there was any connection between the
Jefferson indictment and Congressman Conyers.
We have extended our apology privately to the congressman, and we do so here as well.

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