This has been going around already but can’t pass without a mention. In a report about Sarah Palin, Fox News mistakenly used an image of Tina Fey pretending to be Sarah Palin: Image via @jaredbkeller. Time magazine got a statement from Fox News: This past Sunday during ‘America’s News Headquarters,’ a graphics error was made [...]
Given the fact that journalists have been mixing up the names of President Obama and Osama Bin Laden for a good three years or more, it’s no surprise that the coverage of last night’s huge news included many of these slips. Here’s a sampler of Obama/Osama errors. This, from a local Fox affiliate, may be [...]
Several places, including Gawker and the Atlantic Wire, took note of the fact that Fox News’ website removed a bizarre and borderline disturbing article that seemed to link an Obama speech with a young man’s suicide.* From the Atlantic Wire: Fox News has scrubbed its website of an article suggestively commenting on the coincidental suicide [...]
The shooting of Arizona Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and others at a public event earlier today resulted in an onslaught of breaking news reporting. Major news organizations raced to gather reporting, and information began to spread quickly. As is often the case, this led to a lot of mistakes — including reports from NPR, Reuters, CNN, [...]
Pretty awful error by Fox News yesterday: The video is at Outside the Beltway. Report an error
The Daily Show recently busted Sean Hannity for using misleading footage during a report about Rep. Michele Bachmann’s tea party rally at the Capitol. (See updated information at the bottom of this post.) Hannity subsequently apologized on air: Then, last week, Fox News had to apologize again for doing the same thing. This time it [...]
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, [...]
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. [...]
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 [...]
