{"id":4208,"date":"2011-04-09T10:23:01","date_gmt":"2011-04-09T17:23:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=4208"},"modified":"2011-04-09T10:24:40","modified_gmt":"2011-04-09T17:24:40","slug":"fox-news-demonstrates-how-not-to-make-a-correction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=4208","title":{"rendered":"Fox News Demonstrates How NOT To Make A Correction"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"FauxOn February 24, Fox News published an article by their in-house pseudo-liberal, Juan Williams. Like any good Fox News Democrat (FND), Williams pretended to advance a liberal viewpoint while attacking what he and Fox regard as a liberal target.<\/p>\n

That’s standard operating procedure for Fox. What makes this occurrence worse is that Williams badly mangled the facts that were the whole premise of his attack. (Actually, that’s pretty standard for Fox as well). The Williams article<\/a> began by stating…<\/p>\n

“This week The Washington Post released a stunning poll. But the news did not make its front page.” […] “The poll done by The Washington Post, the Kaiser Family Foundation and Harvard University was buried in The Post’s Sunday business section…”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

As it turns out<\/a>, the poll in question was actually printed front and center, section A, page 1, of the Sunday Post. Fox was alerted to this glaring error, but they ignored it for nearly six weeks. Finally they posted this correction on April 5:<\/p>\n

EDITOR’S NOTE: The results of the poll referred to in this article were in fact reported on the front page of the Feb. 20 editions of the Washington Post. Mr. Williams regrets the oversight to the Post, and maintains the study’s findings deserved more prominent coverage in other media outlets.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Why did Fox take so long to correct the error? Could it be that they wanted to wait until the story became stale so that few would ever see the correction? And why did Williams temper his “regrets”<\/em> with a defense of his conclusions that were based on his false reporting? He was inappropriately using a correction notice to pursue an argument he had already lost.<\/p>\n

On the other hand, Fox News commits errors far worse than this on a daily basis without ever acknowledging them, so I suppose we should be grateful that Fox bothered to issue a correction at all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On February 24, Fox News published an article by their in-house pseudo-liberal, Juan Williams. Like any good Fox News Democrat (FND), Williams pretended to advance a liberal viewpoint while attacking what he and Fox regard as a liberal target. That’s standard operating procedure for Fox. 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