{"id":9189,"date":"2015-05-05T19:23:36","date_gmt":"2015-05-05T19:23:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=9189"},"modified":"2015-05-05T19:23:36","modified_gmt":"2015-05-05T19:23:36","slug":"fox-news-owns-up-to-mistake-well-done","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=9189","title":{"rendered":"Fox News owns up to mistake … well done"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Regular readers of this blog know that I am not a fan of the Fox News Channel, the network that proclaims itself to be “fair and balanced … and unafraid.”<\/p>\n

I’ve determined that a news organization that must declare it is “fair and balanced” usually is neither.<\/p>\n

But the other day, Fox News anchor Shepard Smith did something quite commendable.<\/p>\n

He manned up and said the network erred in a report from Baltimore about an alleged shooting of a man by police.<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.politicususa.com\/2015\/05\/04\/fox-news-forced-apologize-starting-riot-false-baltimore-shooting-report.html<\/p>\n

The field reporter said he saw an officer shoot a man. The police department issued a statement that said the incident didn’t happen. The field reporter, Mike Tobin, thought<\/em> he saw what he reported.<\/p>\n

In the words of former Texas Gov. Rick Perry: Oops.<\/em><\/p>\n

Smith then went on the air to say the network messed up. It gave incorrect information and broadcast it to its audience.<\/p>\n

There’s been some chatter out there about the incident and whether Fox is prone to reporting such errors regularly. I don’t know the answer to that.<\/p>\n

One can quibble with how a network — be it Fox, CNN, MSNBC or any of the broadcast networks — spin their coverage, depending on your point of view and your own bias.<\/p>\n

But when a network misreports something that it says actually happened, then takes it back, well, that’s part of taking responsibility.<\/p>\n

We’re all human. And humans make mistakes.<\/p>\n

Fox News’s correspondent made one. The network apologized for it.<\/p>\n

I accept the apology.<\/p>\n

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Regular readers of this blog know that I am not a fan of the Fox News Channel, the network that proclaims itself to be “fair and balanced … and unafraid.” I’ve determined that a news organization that must declare it is “fair and balanced” usually is neither. But the other day, Fox News anchor Shepard … Continue reading Fox News owns up to mistake … well done<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[534,1043,1790,2588,3070,3155,4252,4625],"class_list":["post-9189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media-news","tag-baltimore-shooting","tag-cnn","tag-fox-news-channel","tag-journalism-ethics","tag-mike-tobin","tag-msnbc","tag-shepard-smith","tag-texas-gov-rick-perry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9189","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9189"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9189\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}