My dearest father sent me this little gem:
Hannity video switch-up is only the tip of Fox News' video-doctoring iceberg
Watch to the end of the Jon Stewart video, CLEAR to the end. Also feel free to watch the boring, more serious analysis of Fox's video doctoring techniques.
Update: Hannity 'fesses up! Sort of...
Hannity admits in the video that they aired the footage from a 9/12 rally but claims it was an "inadvertent mistake". How do you swap tapes from yesterday with tapes from over a year ago?
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September, actually, but your point on substituting achival footage for fresh news is perfectly valid. Someone went to the files to bulk up their coverage, tried to cover their tracks with the label "earlier", and assumed that would do it. Of course Fox News has no journalistic integrity and doesn't really care if anyone calls them on it. They only want to stay close enough to ethics to be able to pretend they made a "mistake."
Yeah, I was pretty flabbergasted when I saw that Hannity was issuing an apology but I should have known they would spin it as a mistake. As Stewart pointed out, one day it was Fall, the next the trees were green and it was cloudy! Either it was on purpose or they have a TERRIBLE video editing staff.
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