Damnable Lies

"Paul Schur, a spokesman for the network, said Fox's chief political correspondent Carl Cameron had been disciplined for posting an item on FoxNews.com that included several made-up quotes attributed to Kerry." --Fox News Channel admits reporter posted fake story about Kerry Re-re-re-reprimanded?! Now, I understand that Carl Cameron is no Dan Rather, and that the content here is not as sombre as what is at issue in the CBS piece. However, Fox's "chief political correspondent" admitedly made stuff up! And foxnews.com published it! There are no memos here to debate, just straight from the dome falsehoods. It's so indefensible that they fessed right up to it, what else can they do? Therefore one may be led to believe that the story was indeed intended to be a joke. OK, let's assume this is the case for the sake of argument. For what venue was a fair and balanced news organization creating such a story? Intra-office humor? I don't think so. EVEN AS SATIRE, in october we expect SNL to give equal time to Bush and Kerry, but Fox's made up story that accidentially got published did no such thing. Therefore it is unfair even as satire. Any which way, if Carl is only getting reprimanded, a web producer somewhere should be getting fired.