Actually, it’s not. O’Reilly’s show is taped. I’d like to repeat that: O’Reilly’s show is not live. It’s taped. It’s (ostensibly) edited by actual live people who are supposed to catch errors like that.
Cite? Date? Anything?
Some people? I’m sure FOX is counting on ‘most’ of their audience being fooled/confused by this. Let’s face it, FOX knows their fans are not brain surgeons. They’ll uncritically eat any pablum that station feeds them. So, it wouldn’t surprise me in the least if many of their viewers now believe Foley’s a democrat, even after hearing previously that he was a republican. The republicans were probably like “Oh, thank god for FOX news” when they saw the ‘mistake’. And anyway, didn’t something like this happen on FOX before?
Got a source for that? While I wouldn’t doubt that O’Reilly would insist on taping the program to suit his schedule, I haven’t heard that.
Loathe as I am to defend Fox News, I gotta say that I worked in live TV news production for a number of years and such idiotic mistakes do happen (and sometimes are never noticed).
The O’Reilly Show is taped, not live. The “mistake” was repeated three times and when the replay was shown later that night, Fox did not replace the (D) with an (R) but simply showed the same graphic without any party label at all.
While CNN quickly acknowledged and apologized for obviously unintentional glitches, Fox did not even acknowledge their “mistak” on the air or offer any explanation for it.
Plus, let’s face it, Fox simply does not have a lot of journalistic credibility. Blatant lying is part of their MO. One of their own is the current White House mouthpiece, for Shit’s sake. It’s a network that, frankly, hasn’t earned any benefit of doubt.
I know that Keith Olbermann made a point of informing his audience that O’Reilly’s show is taped. No cite, but that claim is at least as credible as Olbermann is.
It’s worse than that. According to Matt Gross:
– From p. 320, The Republican Noise Machine, by David Brock.
Doubtless what they did was to cover the offending part of the original graphic, a much easier trick than trying to insert the correct font over “old” video. (Been there, done that, always looked like crap.)
I still vote for big ole dumbass mistake, but wouldn’t rule out the possibility of some weisenheimer getting into the script and changing an R to a D before the data was sent to the character generator.
And thanks all for the quick response to my piddling question. (Olbermann rocks, but his current Ed Murrow Takes on Joe McCarthy turn may be his undoing, delightful as it is to see him kick some fat plutocratic butt.)
What, you think MSNBC will fire him over this?
Once is a mistake.
Three times is a pattern.
Three times over the span of two nights on a taped show is malicious.
I doubt it-Dan Abrams is said to be fully behind Keith, and from what I gather, his ratings are doing VERY well. Firing Keith would REALLY hurt MSNBC at this point.
It happened. Cite
:dubious: I should hope any Doper knows better than to use the Drudge Report as a reliable cite for, well, anything, except perhaps for examples of dishonest and/or dumbass conduct by Matt Drudge. Also . . . that blurb talks about “subliminal” x-ing of Cheney. Sublims don’t work, and I would expect the folks at CNN to know that.
Here’s a righty cite, a lefty cite, and a CNN cite: CNN apologizes for ‘X’ over Cheney’s face.
That’s better. Well, CNN says it was a “technical glitch.” Seems perfectly believable to me. Fox giving a “mistake” explanation re the topic of the OP does not seem believable to me – but that’s just because CNN has credibility as a journalistic institution, and Fox has not. Anybody in this thread think different?
And, best of all, here’s the hilariously inept pit thread Clothahump started over the incident.
The “news” portion is pretty good, although that’s only a small portion of their programing. Basically, it’s Shepard Smith’s show that comes on at 4PM (I think). I also like the little round table dsucssion Brit Hume has on his show for the last 15 minutes. And Chris Wallace’s show on Sunday is not bad. But O’Reilly would be O’Reilly on any network, as would Hannity and that other clown-- the guy who comes on before Brit Hume’s show.
John Gibson. And I agree (and have said as much in the past) with you on Special Report and Fox Report, as well as Fox News Sunday. I generally watch Fox News Sunday followed by Meet the Press. It can be a very interesting contrast some weeks. I can’t decide on Your World with Neil Cavuto.
CNN said it was a “glitch,” but you can see in the article how lathered up one side can get when it comes to “bias.”
Just like the OP.
In YOUR opinion.