# Fox reports GOP press release verbatim, w/o acknowledgment, & including typo

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fox-reports-gop-press-release-verbatim-w-o-acknowledgment-including-typo/486198>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [February 17, 2009, 12:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fox-reports-gop-press-release-verbatim-w-o-acknowledgment-including-typo/486198 "2009-02-17T00:30:47Z")\
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**Author:** ![kferr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/71e660/32.png) [@kferr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kferr)\
**Post date:** [February 17, 2009, 12:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fox-reports-gop-press-release-verbatim-w-o-acknowledgment-including-typo/486198/21 "2009-02-17T12:47:11Z")

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> [@DoctorJ](#):
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> Oh, but it got better, because Fox did apologize.
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> For the typo.
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> > [@](#):
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> > Yesterday on Happening Now we showed you how the stimulus bill has grown over time. Our story prompted by a news release from the Senate Republican Communication Center. **There** point that a $56 billion proposal in September has grown to $838 billion in five months. In compiling the story, our producers and researchers did what we always do – we verified the accuracy of the material. But in double checking the newspaper quotes referenced in that news release we made the same mistake they did. We labeled a Wall Street Journal article as having run in 2009 when in fact it was 2008. That was our error, and we apologize.
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> Shorter: Next time we uncritically pass along unattributed GOP talking points, we’ll proofread them first.

When will they apologize for the fuck-up in the apology?

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**Author:** ![Smeghead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f1d935/32.png) [@Smeghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smeghead)\
**Post date:** [February 17, 2009, 1:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fox-reports-gop-press-release-verbatim-w-o-acknowledgment-including-typo/486198/22 "2009-02-17T13:02:01Z")

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> [@ladyfoxfyre](#):
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> More details, please! How else am I supposed to know what’s going on in this thread?

Well, you see, apparently Fox reported this GOP press release, right? Except they did it verbatim. And they didn’t even acknowlege it! They also went so far as to include a typo!

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**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\
**Post date:** [February 17, 2009, 1:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fox-reports-gop-press-release-verbatim-w-o-acknowledgment-including-typo/486198/23 "2009-02-17T13:22:53Z")

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> [@Smeghead](#):
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> Well, you see, apparently Fox reported this GOP press release, right? Except they did it verbatim. And they didn’t even acknowlege it! They also went so far as to include a typo!

And then someone asked what the typo was and others pointed it out, and \*\*Lynn \*\*added a comment about not having enough information in the OP, and then the thread got moved to a different forum and then **ladyfoxfyre** asked what what going on and **Smeghead** replied, and then I wrote all the stuff above and now I’m typing this.  
And this.  
And this.  
But not this.

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