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Thursday, February 17, 2011

Fox News uses misleading footage

Michael Calderone of Yahoo!'s Cutline news blog has a piece highlighting Fox News's use of mismatched footage to put Ron Paul on the spot during an interview. The footage, supposedly of audience boos greeting the announcement this year that he had won the Conservative Political Action Conference's presidential straw poll, was actually from last year's conference.

Fox called the use of the wrong footage a "mistake". However, Calderone cited three other uses of misleading footage that, as he put it, "could be perceived as benefiting certain Republicans."

Once is a mistake. Four times (and counting) is a pattern.

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