FoxNews.com Alters AP Reports To Read Gov't 'Slimdown,' Not 'Shutdown'

[meegbear]

Source: TalkingPointsMemo.com

FoxNews.com altered Associated Press reports it republished Wednesday to replace references to a government shutdown with the word "slimdown."

FoxNews.com placed the headline "Americans turn to social media to air feelings on slimdown" on one AP story and altered its original lede: "The roiling debate over the U.S. government shutdown is extending to Twitter, Facebook and Instagram as fed-up Americans turn to social media to register their disgust with federal lawmakers for shutting down the government." The website replaced "shutting down the government" in that sentence with "slimming down the government."

The news website also replaced references to a government shutdown with its preferred term in the headlines and ledes of AP stories here and here.

The term "slimdown" appeared in six places on the website's front page on Tuesday, the first day of the shutdown.

Read more: http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/foxnews-com-alters-ap-reports-to-read-gov-t-slimdown-not-shutdown

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Pathetic, as always Faux News.

Edit: Missed two links.

[onehandle]

2. They have fewer real headlines than The Daily Show. nt

[CarrieLynne]

3. wow - its like they are admitting its republicans fault lol

cause the wording would be more like "devastating crisis shutdown' if they knew it was Dems fault lol

[tularetom]

4. "slimedown"?

[ctsnowman]

6. lol

[Stuart G]

5. Oh MY....tell me it ain't so...Shoeless Joe....nt

[randr]

8. Turds living up to their reputation

[alp227]

9. ORIGINAL AP TITLES

George Clooney hopes government shutdown ends soon

Obama shortens Asia trip because of shutdown

Stop being so stupid, voters tweet to Congress

[Hugin]

10. Yep, it is fully their intent for these cuts to be permanent.

They carry water for the likes of the Club for Growth and Norquist.

The sequester was not enough for the so-called "Libertarians".

[yuiyoshida]

11. Well of course!!! Fox News Viewers live in an entirely different

World than we do. FULL OF FAT CIGAR SMOKING UNICORNS, CARRYING Bibles.

[bigworld]

12. Is that permitted by the AP?

I used to work for a newspaper which used AP dispatches, and I wouldn't imagine we ever would have thought about doing that. Cutting some verbiage, yes, but that?

[yuiyoshida]

13. The question you have to ask yourself is...

When did a Republican ever play by the rules?

[Hydepier]

14. Silly Fox, everyone knows only Chris Christie can

perform a "government slim-down".

[blkmusclmachine]

15. Does Fox still put up a (D) next to all publicly-disgraced Republicans???

[cstanleytech]

16. Well they are the network that fought in court for the right to "lie" to their viewers. nt