FOX admits Kerry news story is fake

**ZaZu** · 10-04-2004, 10:19 PM

NEW YORK (CBS.MW) -- Fox News, which has been criticized for catering to right-wing political viewpoints, apologized for posting phony quotations from Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry on its Web site.

Carl Cameron, a Fox reporter who covers the Kerry campaign, wrote an item that resembled a news account with made-up Kerry quotes. The item was written in "jest" and was not supposed to be posted on the site, the network said.

The item posted early Friday read in part:

"Rallying supporters in Tampa Friday Kerry played up his performance in Thursday night's debate in which many observers agreed the Massachusetts senator outperformed the president.

" 'Didn't my nails and cuticles look great? What a good debate!' Kerry said Friday ...Women should like me! I do manicures,' Kerry said."

The item also quoted Kerry as saying of himself and President Bush: "I'm metrosexual -- he's a cowboy."

The Fox gaffe comes on the heels of a media industry furor that surrounded CBS News and anchor Dan Rather. CBS apologized for airing a flawed report on Bush's National Guard service.

Fox has spent substantial time on the Rather issue, in a seeming attempt to keep the story alive after it began to fade from view in other media organizations.

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An interesting insight into the FOX reporters mindset I think

**spinningfreemanny** · 10-04-2004, 10:52 PM

Written by CBS...

uh huh...cause they know accurate reporting!
The article is full of lib spin...

I don't like the lack to smilies on this board...the whole format is annoying which peeves my sarcasm.

**vidcc** · 10-04-2004, 11:26 PM

Originally Posted by spinningfreemanny

Written by CBS...

uh huh...cause they know accurate reporting!
The article is full of lib spin...
.

Do you think that cbs are now incabable of acurate reporting?

**spinningfreemanny** · 10-04-2004, 11:43 PM

I think that this article displays that they cannot report without spin. It looks like (due to their wording) to me that they wrote this story for a rather weak jab at FOX's coverage of the memo scandal.

**vidcc** · 10-05-2004, 01:20 AM

Originally Posted by spinningfreemanny

I think that this article displays that they cannot report without spin. It looks like (due to their wording) to me that they wrote this story for a rather weak jab at FOX's coverage of the memo scandal.

and fox just tell it as it is huh?

what spin are we looking at? All the other media channels jumped on CBS's case over the memo thing, all of them smug.......

**spinningfreemanny** · 10-05-2004, 02:10 AM

Then why did CBS point out FOX?

Fox has spent substantial time on the Rather issue, in a seeming attempt to keep the story alive after it began to fade from view in other media organizations.