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FOX rolls wrong video, heads may roll
by Mark Silva and updated with FOX apology
FOX has done it again, and this time, once again, FOX says its misplay of the wrong crowd video was another regrettable mistake.
Today, FOX News host Gregg Jarrett was talking about Republican Sarah Palin's book tour and the crowd she is drawing at the start of itno small turnout, with some 1,500 people lining up early this morning for a chance to get into this evening's premier book-signing for Going Rogue in Grand Rapids.
"Sarah Palin continuing to draw huge crowds while she's promoting her brand new book,'' FOX's Jarrett told his viewers. "Take a look at -- these are some of the pictures just coming into us... The lines earlier had formed this morning.''
But it turns out that Happening Now had pulled some video of something that happened last year: Displaying video today from Palin's campaign for the vice presidency, on the ticket with the GOP's Sen. John McCainwhich also drew considerable crowds, as shown today in video of a smiling Palin before an adoring campaign crowd.
"This was a production error in which the copy editor changed a script and didn't alert the control room to update the video,'' Michael Clemente, senior vice president of news at FOX, sad this evening. "There will be an on-air explanation during Happening Now on Thursday."
The unwelcome mishap follows soon on the heels of another FOX Paswhen the network's Sean Hannity ran video of a hugely attended TEA Party protest rally in Washington in September as Hannity was talking about a less-attended Nov. 4 rally outside the Capitol.
Comedy Central's Jon Stewart called out Hannity on that video, and Hannity apologized, on air, for what he called an "inadvertent'' error. Hannity has a book-tour interview of Palin on his show tonight, and we're betting Stewart's Daily Show crew will be watching.
So, as you might suspect, the No. 1-rated cable news network is taking today's mixing of videos quite seriously;
How seriously?
The Swamp hears tonight that it's highly like that serious disciplinary action will be taken for those responsible behind the scenes in the control room. News executives there consider this to have been a sloppy and unnecessary error.
New Thursday note: FOX made good on its promise to acknowledge the mistake and apologized for the mixup today: "We didn't mean to mislead anybody. It was a mistake, and for that we apologize.'' See it here:
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A Fort Bragg spokesman said officials feared the book-signing event would spark political grandstanding against President Obama if the media were allowed to cover it. He said Army regulations prohibited military reservations from becoming "political platforms by politicians."
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