Fox Defends News Clip Croppings: Calls Them "Selective Factivity"

Fox Defends News Clip Croppings: Calls Them "Selective Factivity"
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Reacting to recent criticism of their editing practices which tend to delete segments of news clips and soundbites which may distort or completely transpose the reality of the clip, Fox News has issued a terse response.

"It is not now, nor has it ever been our intention to deceive the viewer," said Fox honcho, Roger Ailes "In fact it is due to our respect of the viewer that we do not force them to watch newsmakers drone on and on about extemporaneous elements of a story that many times just cause confusion. It's not editing, it's 'Selective Factivity'."

On May 1, O'Reilly Factor guest host Laura Ingraham played a portion of Al Gore's congressional testimony as a preface for Ingraham to deride Gore for what she deemed to be large profits he makes from his Global-warming efforts. The edited out portion included Gore's statements that in fact he donates READ THE REST OF THE SELKECTIVE FACTIVITY HERE.

Award-winning TV writer Steve Young is author of "Great Failures of the Extremely Successful...Mistakes, Adversity, Failure and Other Steppingstones to Success" (www.greatfailure.com) and blogs at the appropriately named steveyoungonpolitics.com

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