Guess what – it happened again. And Fox News is ready to lay down the law.
Think Progress caught another instance of Fox News using incorrect b-roll, again leading to the effect of making a crowd look larger than it actually was.
As anchor Gregg Jarrett introduced a news segment about Sarah Palin‘s book tour, video rolled of Palin on the 2008 campaign trail. But Jarrett said: “Sarah Palin continuing to draw huge crowds while she’s promoting her brand new book, Take a look – these are some of the pictures just coming into us. You can see the lines earlier had formed this morning. There’s a crowd of folks.”
It’s not like Fox News needed to falsely make it look like there were big crowds – many came out for the
Chicago Tribune‘s Mark Silva talked to FNC SVP Michael Clemente:
This was a production error in which the copy editor changed a script and didn’t alert the control room to update the video. There will be an on-air explanation during Happening Now on Thursday
That will come sometime between 11am and 1pmET today. Also, Silva writes, “serious disciplinary action will be taken for those responsible behind the scenes in the control room.”
> Update: Here’s the apology video from this morning (via J$):
Here’s the clip:
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