Media Outlets Slam Fox For Doctored NY Times Photos

From Media Matters:

On the July 2 edition of MSNBC's Verdict, during the nightly "Beat the Press" segment, which "look[s] back at media hypocrisy, agendas, and the amusing perils of live TV," host Dan Abrams asserted that Fox News "really outdid themselves this morning" -- a reference to the July 2 edition of Fox News' Fox & Friends, which, as Media Matters for America documented, featured photos of New York Times reporter Jacques Steinberg and editor Steven Reddicliffe that appeared to have been digitally altered. Specifically, the journalists' teeth had been yellowed, their facial features exaggerated, and Reddicliffe's hairline receded. Fox News gave no indication that the photos had been altered at the time...

...The controversy was not mentioned on the July 3 edition of Fox & Friends, and as of this posting, Fox News had yet to comment on, or apologize for, the doctored photos.

Watch MSNBC's Dan Abrams discuss the story:

Comments

[chrissy22]

BOO HOO

[hmmmmmer]

Faux News is the cable equivalent the National Enquirer and unfortunately there are many people out there that like learning about totally out of control fiction and innuendo.

[Mij13]

You insult the National Enquirer ; )

[DesertLight]

C'mon didn't anyone think the doctored pics were funny. I think we benefit the most when snoose organizations start ripping on one another. It's cheap entertainment.

[protagonia]

Sometimes there are just Bad-Apple people.

These people are identified by what no longer bothers them.

It's how we know they are not good inside.

Some of them know how to type.

They hate being identified.

Too bad.

[Dansden]

'YOU MAY BE A FOX 'SPEWS' WATCHER.........IF......
1. facts and history are irrelevant to you..........
2. truth is just another word for 'could be' .........
3. President Bush is stil polling '70%' IN YOUR MIND..........
4. your children's future are not important to you........
5. your grandchildren are taught that paying off your great grandparent's NATIONAL debt is a 'GOOD THING'......
6. if people of color are viewed as an annoyance to your regular TV viewing.......
7. if John McBUSH is a wise man with great understanding of the American economy....
8. if the passing of Jesse Helms is a FEATURE PROGRAM for your family night dinner enjoyment........
9. if 'Turdblossom' is your favorite American journalist and news commentator.......
10. if 'Slick Dick' Cheney is your favorite 'sports' feature on 'KILLING WHATEVER IS IN FRONT OF ME'.....

[Dustee]

Hilarious!!!

[kinnycut]

The Republican News Network is at it again. Is there anything they won't do to destroy someone?

[takeamericanback08]

I heard FoxNews was the inspiration for the book, "Wicked"

[armadillious2002]

Republicans are liars and it's time to start calling them what they are. Such as. "John McCain would you please quit taking credit for the GI Bill - you know it's a damned lie". I would love to hear this in the debates.

Repubs are liars plain and simple and it's time to start driving it home to people. Yeah it will be an outrage and it will get lot's of media but the truth is the truth and will come out on top.

[drblack]

Fox has actually won two lawsuits by arguing that Fox "News" is under no obligation to tell the truth.
Fox has actually admitted in court,in their own defense,that Fox lies.
One case was in Florida and the other in Illinois. Look them up.

[Boboday555]

I wonder if some clever lawyer could sue Ruppert for using the word "NEWS" in "Fox-News?"
They don't report the news.
They spew un-American neo-con talking points to their borderline illiterate base.
Its like our current AWOL President calling himself the "WAR PRESIDENT" in spite of the fact that when it was his turn to fight he hid like the neo-con coward he is!

Come on lawyers of the world, drag Murdoch into a courtroom and make him change the name of his show from "Fox-News' to "Fox's-Junior High Rumor Mill."

[Agent420]

If you want to get rid of "Fox News", it is real easy. Go to your local Fox station and find out when their license is due for renewal. When the time comes for public input, write up your gripes and submit them. One person will not make it happen. There needs to be all you people out there complaining getting up off you butts and turn off the TV and doing it. Democracy is a participatory form of government, if you want something to happen you have to get out there and make it happen. Freedom is not free.

[nylefty]

If you want to get rid of "Fox News", it is real easy. Go to your local Fox station and find out when their license is due for renewal. When the time comes for public input, write up your gripes and submit them.

Huh? The Fox News Channel is on cable television, which is NOT licensed by the FCC and NOT carried by "local Fox stations." Our gripes about the Fox News Channel have nothing to do with the local Fox affiliates.

[Chubbarow]

Those people who say that FNC is a joke or their stunts are childish are so wrong.
Murdoch has always taken his cue from Julius Streicher. Streicher's motto was: "Something always sticks." (That's the in-house translation of "We Report - You Decide")
Murdoch doesn't care if the chattering class sneer at his product. The target audience may even see through some of his outrageous propaganda but he knows: "Something always sticks."
Nothing on Fox News is a joke or childish - Rupert does not play games. He's been an Australian, a British and for now an American citizen. Each patriotic change of heart furthered the rise of the Murdoch Empire of Real Evil. He is, arguably, the most influential man in the English speaking world.

[Boboday555]

Its as if FOX-KIDS is being run by a bunch of petulent children.
Oh, that's right, it is!

[protagonia]

Fox followers are all adolescent-minded adults.

They are stunted in their mental and emotional development.

Literally "retarded".

Slowed.

[319]

And damn proud of it!

[Boboday555]

FOX-KIDS: News without all those pesky facts!

[Boboday555]

We should pass a law that if you get your 'news' from FOX-KIDS, you shouldn't be allowed to vote, drive and especially reproduce.

FOX-KIDS: lowering the bar for their mullet sporting, mouth breathing base.

[Boboday555]

I'd be far more surprised if FOX-KIDS was caught not doctoring the news to fit their own racsit, sexist, homophobic, un-American agenda!
This ain't news, its business as usual at FOX-KIDS.

FOX-KIDS: News, for stupid people!

[protagonia]

It's true.

You are spot on, Bob Day.

[rudiy]

I find it ture to form, FOX news calls the real news media all kinds of names, and on a daily basis. Like all bullies it can dish it out but not take it.