Fox News Fires Producer Who Chyroned Michelle Obama Barack's "Baby Mama"

Fox News has fired Jessica Herzberg, the freelance producer responsible for the "Obama's baby mama" chyron from June, according to Chickaboomer.

In June, during a segment on Fox News' "America's Election HQ," a chyron read: "Outraged Liberals: Stop Picking On Obama's Baby Mama!"

At the time, Fox News' Senior Vice President of Programming, Bill Shine, acknowledged Herzberg's poor judgment, saying, "A producer on the program exercised poor judgment in using this chyron during the segment."

Herzberg has reportedly moved on to CNBC.

Comments

[JEFF123]

Did anyone at the Huffington Post check this story out? It's 100% untrue. Herzberg was a freelance Senior Producer. Senior Producers don't write banners. Writers do. Also, Senior Producers don't call up banners, that's done by a director or a graphics or deco op. And most important, Herzberg left Fox, she was not fired. One phone call by the people at the Huffington Post would have cleared this up. You should be ashamed of yourselves.

[Donnybroke]

Shd hve been promoted

[StrayTalk]

So CNBC has now hired her? Guess Olbermann or Maddow won't touch the story now. Hope I'm wrong.

[Krikkit]

I wrote a letter to the FCC about this stupid Faux trick and encouraged others to do the same. I have no way of knowing if there is a connect between my complaint and this firing, but I like to imagine there was... All I know for certain is that the FCC sent me a letter stating they were looking into the complaint against Faux.

The airwaves are held in trust for the American people and Faux and other news organizations only hold a license to broadcast. If these so-called news groups abuse their licenses enough and we complain enough, the FCC might just pull those licenses. I reminded the FCC of this in my letter and I hope this Faux firing will encourage you to use your power in the same way when you see similar abuses.

[BarackDaVote]

GOOD...

Now FIRE the entire Network and never allow them to come back on T.V.

[Phil123]

For the first time in my life, I'm proud of Michelle Obama.

[fookie]

Am I the only one who doesn't know what chyroned means?

[gevan]

check it out: http://www.answers.com/topic/chyron-corporation

[gevan]

Look at the picture. See the caption at the bottom? That's what it is.

[Playinjured]

Everyone can be a genius on the internet (cough, cough) ....google....(cough)...Microsoft Encarta...(ahem)...Wiki.....

[protagonia]

fox news is for the damaged ones out there that need an "Enemy" to hate because they are not smart or good enough as people to see that they themselves are the problem.

They turn into the bad guys just by believing in the poison spewed by that network. They are too "proud" to admit what a monumental mistake their path has been, so they deflect it onto everyone else, like little children do.

Whereas a Liberal would not wish them any harm, but only to wake up and learn where they went off track, the neo con would gladly wish harm to the Liberal, making the neo inherently e-v-i-l. None are man enough, nor American enough to admit to it.

[navymike]

"Whereas a Liberal would not wish them any harm, .."
Have you been dipping in the Kool-Aid again? All you read on Huffpo are liberals crying (as usual) and wishing harm to all that are not on the koo-koo socialist bandwagon. Tolerance? So too does hatemongers exist in Nobama land.

[Playinjured]

***PlayInjured's pick***
Nail has a migraine from you whopping it over it's head. Great comment.

[protagonia]

Thanks for the support, and glad to know that your injuries are just "Play'n Possum".

Fly low and avoid the radar.

[RButler]

The Obama supporters were defending David Schuster's HIllary 'pimping Chelsea' remark when MSNBC only suspended him. They are so effing hypocritical and they apparently have less memory than their cell phones.

[protagonia]

It is not the double-standards you have caught, but the ones you have conveniently omitted that reveal your own.

[Phil_Waste]

Fox News is going down the same sewer as the Republicans and the NeoCons. They will end up without any market share and their talking heads will get flushed also.

Goodbye FOX NEWS the Republican, NeoCon propaganda channel.

[freedomfighter1]

The 'baby mama' comment was tacky, stupid, and has no place in real news. It wasn't like she was repeating a direct quote(that would be actual reporting). We are mothers and wives, not 'baby mama's'. Respect us.

[leftintheoven]

And it only took Fox until September to react to a problem from June. Now that is an awesome display of rapidly getting the facts to break news. They are something special.

[Academic]

Barack and Michelle Obama's children were conceived and born in wedlock, not the result of a shotgun wedding, which will be the plight of Sarah Palin's (the beloved darling of the rightwing) 17 year old daughter. It's abundantly clear to any impartial and discerning observer that Barack and Michelle are deeply in love with each other and that there's not a whiff of scandal surrounding their personal relationship with each other. To bigots like those who own and run Fox this is hard to stomach when one takes an objective look at their own sordid lives. And in doing so one doesn't even have to embroil Rupert Murdoch, Fox's owner, to make one's point. John McCain is another classic example of the pot calling the kettle black. These people are sad characters who live in their own fantasy world, and the best way to deal with them is to ignore them and not give them the oxygen of publicity.
Professor Dr. Stanley Collymore
London, England.

[CammyV]

Let's do the math and see if Sarah was preggo when she and the Toddster got hitched.

[papapj]

She was, actually...three months gone, by all accounts....!

Pot...kettle...?

[jemiltd]

Perfectly stated.

[contemporarymom]

No its not perfectly stated. The article is what Fox did wrong, not anything about the pot..kettle crap.

You guys just like throwing sarah into the mix don't you.

Its a post on how Fox was wrong, and I as a repub I agree with the earlier post on taking from June to September to kick the guys out.

Hmmm and yet CNBC hires him, makes ya wonder whats wrong with CNBC?

[Alterion]

The tone of the entire channel sets the precedent for this kind of behavior. If there was any sincerity to this, they'd fire some of the bigger names on the channel.

Fox is jumping ship from being republican shills. They don't want to be alienated by the new democratic white house.

[Bavaricus]

So they fired someone wo did what was expected. I'm confused. Never mind, I'm always confused.