FNC repeats “internet hoax” as news?
At around 11:58 am ET Friday, E.D. Hill read a story about Japanese dog lovers who bought what they thought were expensive miniature poodles at a discount, only to find out they were sheep. However this story is apparently a hoax. Another News Corp. site, news.com.au debunked the story here.
An insider told ICN that the show’s producers were warned about the bogus report.
UPDATE: Johnny Dollar says in the comments that the lower thirds said “Hoax”.
And to add to the incestuous relationship the story originated in The Sun, one of Murdoch’s many tabloids.
Comment by Steve — April 28, 2007 @ 5:41 pm
That on top of their “reporting” about the ham sandwich Tuesday morning on ‘Fox & friends”.
http://thinkprogress.org/2007/04/27/fox-parody/
Fox needs to better check things before running with them on the air. Just because it makes for a good segment doesn’t mean it is newsworthy, or even real!
Comment by malone — April 28, 2007 @ 5:43 pm
Sounds like good material for Jon Stewart!
Comment by Aunt Mary — April 28, 2007 @ 6:19 pm
CNN International also reported the story as fact, only to retract it a couple of hours later.
Comment by F101 — April 28, 2007 @ 8:58 pm
what else does one expect from fox ‘news’. every other ’story’ is nothing more than one picked up out of a tabloid.
Comment by Me — April 28, 2007 @ 9:53 pm
This story gets my goat!
Comment by mike — April 28, 2007 @ 10:45 pm
Well I know she read this story, and I believe she read it straight, but the on-screen graphic clearly said “hoax”.
Comment by johnny dollar — April 29, 2007 @ 2:30 pm
Yeah Johnny, because the story was about a supposed “hoax” where people who bought poodles got sheep instead.
Nice Try.
Comment by ed mcmahon — April 29, 2007 @ 3:08 pm
That sounds like a scam, not a hoax.
Comment by johnny dollar — April 29, 2007 @ 4:21 pm
Well it’s still not as bad as a network using fake National Guard records to try to upset a Presidential campaign weeks from the election.
Comment by mlong — April 29, 2007 @ 8:27 pm
Or as bad as running with a story about a presidential candidate attending a madrassah as a boy without seeking to even confirm the story first.
Comment by Sam — April 29, 2007 @ 9:46 pm
Or running a last minute drunk driving story at the eve of an election that is being told by a strong supporter of the other candidate…without informing the voters with the bias of the supplier of the story.
Comment by mlong — April 29, 2007 @ 10:08 pm
JD is right in that “hoax” did appear in the bottom third, and despite that, from what I can gather, the only difference in what really happened and what FNC reported was the the “ham” in question was a ham steak, not a ham sandwich. Not too integral to the larger story of intolerance in my opinion.
Comment by Caufield — April 30, 2007 @ 8:54 am
Caufield, you’re talking about a different story.
Comment by OverHere — April 30, 2007 @ 8:58 am
I obviously need to stop perusing the Internets prior to my morning coffee…
Comment by Caufield — April 30, 2007 @ 10:41 am