Fox News To Issue Correction For Misleading 'Fox & Friends' Graphic On Unemployment

[DonViejo]

Source: Huffington Post

Fox News will air a correction for a misleading graphic that appeared on Tuesday's "Fox & Friends," Mediaite reported.

The program ran into some mathematical difficulty when it threw up a graphic about changes in the unemployment rate during President Obama's tenure.

Liberal watchdog Media Matters noticed a discrepancy in the figures:

Read more: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/09/11/fox-news-correction-fox-friends-unemployment_n_1875080.html

[AndyTiedye]

1. Pants on Fire

[zbdent]

6. Which will cause more harm to Faux reporters ...

their pants being on fire, or dying from wearing asbestos pants?

[Faygo Kid]

2. Pesky fact checkers again.

Facts are stubborn things, although that doesn't stop Faux News for disregarding them every day.

[cstanleytech]

3. My money is that the correction will air once at around 3 am till 4 am for 3 seconds or if

they air it on fox and friends it will get all of 2 seconds.

[sakabatou]

4. A correction in how many years?

Or is this a first?

[awoke_in_2003]

11. and it won't do any good...

just like a judge telling a jury to disregard an objection, the damage is already done.

[Iliyah]

5. Mission accomplished!

The propaganda has been transmitted to the base, wherein 15% thinks Mittens killed OBL.

[tjdee]

7. Do you guys see what they're all doing?

This is really disturbing me. They are just flat out lying in public, lying to land the punch, lying in primetime.

Then later, quietly when no one's looking, "air corrections" or "clarify".

This is the modus operandi of these people now, and that is very, very scary.

[Demonaut]

8. so they correct 1 out of 100 misrepesentations thus giving them journalistic integrity???????????

they'll use the line in the future for sure

[SoapBox]

9. Correction to be issued,

on November 30, 2149 at 0324AM...from Mars.

[SansACause]

10. SOP

This is by no means the first time they've issued a "correction" later, after their major demographic has gone to bed.

[alp227]

12. "Fox BOOBS" --Norman Goldman