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Obama? Osama? Ocrapa, redux

October 26, 2007 – 5:00 am

Clarification: A story in yesterday’s Nation pages about Mitt Romney mixing up Barack Obama and Osama bin Laden said that Fox News Channel president Roger Ailes had previously used the similarity between the names Osama and Obama to mock the senator. Fox News says Ailes was making a joke aimed at President Bush, not Obama, [...]

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Boy falsely claims to have been in classroom when gunman entered, fools Today, Good Morning America, CBS Early Show etc.

September 28, 2006 – 10:05 pm

A boy named Cassidy Grigg made the rounds of the morning shows Thursday, hitting the Today show on NBC, The Early Show on CBS, and Good Morning America on ABC. He said he was in the Colorado classroom when gunman Duane Morrison entered. Morrison eventually took six girls hostage and murdered one before killing himself. [...]

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Fox pundit’s mistake terrorizes family

August 26, 2005 – 8:00 am

Every once in a while we see an example of the serious consequences that a media mistake can cause. This latest example happened when a Fox pundit identified a home he said belonged to a terrorist. It did belong to the man he named — three years ago. Now it belongs to a family and [...]

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