Fox Affiliate Reported Obama as Rape Suspect

[liberal N proud]

Mistakenly?

Fox 5 San Diego apologized for mistakenly portraying President Barack Obama as a rape suspect during a news broadcast Friday.

Instead of a picture of the suspect in a sexual assault at San Diego State University, a photo of the President with the text "NO CHARGES" ran over the shoulder of anchor Kathleen Bade as she reported that there would be no charges filed in the case.

The shot was noticed quickly by the newsroom, assignment editor Mike Willie told the Times of San Diego.

"Yeah, there was an accident when they had an over-the-shoulder [display]," Wille said. "It wasn't on purpose."

The error was followed by an on-air apology from fellow anchor Misha DiBono, seen in the video.

Senior vice president of corporate relations for Tribune Media Gary Weitman told the Times, "I want to let you know that the station will be running an on-air correction and an apology tonight; please be sure to watch for it."

http://www.msn.com/en-us/tv/news/obama-mistakenly-reported-as-rape-suspect-fox-affiliate-apologizes-video/ar-BBhDLTV

Sure, I believe you! NOT!!!!

[FLyellowdog]

1. I smell smoke.

I'll bet someone's pants are on fire.

[unblock]

2. clever, they get to propagandize with the apology as well.

"previously we reported that he was not charged with rape. that story was false."


you can tell it was an honest accident because they've made the exact same sort of accidental smears against people like reagan and shrub pretty much the exact same number of times, right?


right??



yeah, riiiiight.

[YarnAddict]

3. I saw the original article about this a couple of days ago

and read the comments after the article. The graphics guy who was responsible for the mistake explained (at length) how it had happened, and took full responsibility. He also explained that although it is a Fox station, it isn't owned by Fox.

This was an honest mistake.