Fox News apologizes for identifying Sanford as a Democrat

[Happyhippychick]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/06/24/fox-news-identifies-sanfo_n_220377.html

And in a related story, HappyHippyChick apologizes to DU for identifying Fox News as a news organization.

Carry on.

[foxfeet]

1. You are forgiven. Fuck them.

[derby378]

2. Too late. Tell the FCC. If they won't listen, tell Congress.

If the FCC insists that cable propaganda outlets are above the law, Congress needs to step in for the public good.

[PetrusMonsFormicarum]

3. Oh snap!

Did they bother to forward-apologize for the *next* time they do this? By my count, they've done it at least six time in the last couple of years.

[sakabatou]

4. They always pull that kind of shit.

[SammyWinstonJack]

5. Until the NEXT time they do it. And they will.

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

6. Duzy Award Nomination n/t

[KansDem]

7. How many apologies does this make?

There's this one, then the one recently in which FOX apologized to Canada for its rude, insensitive comments about Canadian troops in Iraq, then another one in which FOX apologized to Joe Biden for truncating a speech he gave that attributed a comment made by John McCain to Biden, and the list goes on...

Guess I'm showing my age, but I grew up during a time when I don't ever recall news organizations having to apologize for slipshod reporting...

[derby378]

8. Back when I used to watch Saturday night wrestling...

...in the days when WWE was in its infancy, I'd often see the "bad guy" rain down blows on the hero in the ring, but as soon as the good guy managed a sturdy hit or body slam on his opponent, the bad guy would retreat to his corner, hold up his hand, and try to claim King's X. Then, when the good guy turns his back (as the script always mandates), the bad guy clubs him in the back of the head with a folding chair.

That's how FOX News does business, and frankly, it's getting old.

[Cha]

9. Doesn't this make it worse

for them? That they couldn't get it right in the first place and now it's established that sanford is indeed one of them?

Wonder where the pressure came from to make them "apologize"?

I was thinking when I read all these threads on DU, yesterday, in both GD and GDP, on faux getting it wrong on sanford like they always do..that some action would be taken.