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Score one for journalistic standards!
Fox's Happening Now plagiarizes

By Pine Magazine Staff
posted: Thursday, 12 February 2009

From Media Matters:

During Tuesday's edition of Happening Now, co-host Jon Scott presented a press release issued by the Senate Republican Communications Center as Fox's own reporting. Purporting to "take a look back" at how the economic recovery package "was born and how it grew," Scott referenced seven dates, as on-screen graphics cited various news sources from those time periods. All seven of the sources came directly from the Senate Republican press release. One of the graphics during the segment even repeated a typo from the release. At no point during the segment did Scott indicate that he was reading from a partisan press release.

Wednesday, Scott apologized. However, he did not apologize for the egregious offense of passing along the one-sided argument made in the Republican press release as Fox News' original reporting. Rather, he apologized for including the same typo. Scott's half-hearted apology further throws into question the already shaky credibility of the network that brands itself as "Fair & Balanced."


Tags: Fox News, Media Matters, plagiarizism


Business as usual at News Corp.
Posted by: Walt Sat 14, 2009 12:10 AM


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