Comments on: Fox Goes Pravda Again

By: deus ex machina

deus ex machina — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 15:35:17 +0000

It’s one thing to run file footage in the background, like wallpaper. All newscasts do that. That’s not what Craig Jarret did. He specifically said that these images were “just coming in” – deliberately misleading, or the umpteenth “mistake” along these lines at Fox. So they’re either liars or incompetent.

By: The Dark Avenger

The Dark Avenger — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 14:19:43 +0000

It is reasonable to use file footage

Not only that, but they usually have a caption at the bottom of the screen to let the viewers know what they are watching is file footage.

By: Joanne

Joanne — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 09:53:43 +0000

No, sorry. This practice is completely unacceptable when it is applied to a circumstance like this one. It is reasonable to use file footage to depict, say, a physical location to help connect a story with the person or, perhaps, the organization that the story is about in the audience’s mind (for example, if the anchorperson was delivering a story about the recent $1.4 billion settlement reached between the California Attorney General and Wells Fargo Bank, there might be a brief display of file footage showing the building where Wells Fargo is headquartered), but it is never acceptable to use file footage of an event that took place in the past and that has no relevance to or connection with a subsequent story about a specific current event. It is even less so when the main theme of that story is of the “the size of the crowd at the event that this report is about was so extraordinarily large that it clearly demonstrated that there is an exceptional level of support for this person or this cause that the event was centered around” kind, especially when the file footage used provides a nearly perfect visual affirmation of that narrative.

By: MatanteDodo

MatanteDodo — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 02:48:32 +0000

Well, news stations often use archive images to save on having to film new ones, so that’s only actually bad if it was done purposedly to deceive. With the amount of publicity this book got, I wouldn’t be surprised if a crowd was actually representative of the attendance. Of course, it says nothing about the quality of the book or its author, and it doesn’t mean that using old images like that isn’t cheap.

By: Randy Brown

Randy Brown — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 23:25:16 +0000

OW, it’s not “Fox going Pravda”. It’s Fox being Fox.

Same shit, different day.

By: mambochicken23

mambochicken23 — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 22:58:10 +0000

Looking forward to seeing the Daily Show tonight (or maybe tomorrow) to cover this. Jon Stewart owes his entire career to Fox News and this kind of behavior.

By: jr

jr — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 22:53:57 +0000

The queen bee of the trailer hive must be protected at all times

By: Joey Doughnuts

Joey Doughnuts — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 22:32:01 +0000

No big surprise. The idiot network trying to prop up the new head moron. Liars no doubt (fair and balanced means bow to the right).