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Video shot at last weekend’s 9/12 Project protests has surfaced showing Heidi Noonan, an associate producer for Fox News, encouraging the crowd to hoot and holler behind Griff Jenkins while he talks live from the scene with Glenn Beck in the studio. Fox is calling this a rookie mistake by an inexperienced producer. But is it also an ethics violation?

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The 9/12 Project is a day for followers of the Tea Party movement and other conservative groups to march on the nation’s capital to protest what they say is out-of-control government spending. It’s a given that the march will receive extensive coverage on Fox News Channel, because it was conceived by host Glenn Beck , but raises questions of how other news outlets should cover this event — as grass-roots movement, publicity stunt or both? So far it looks like CNN is focusing on the news while ignoring its organizer.