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On Monday, the White House disinvited the Philadelphia Eagles from their planned ceremonial White House visit.
The Eagles were prepared to carry on with the visit Tuesday in honour of their Super Bowl victory with a smaller delegation from the team, but the White House instead chose to cancel their invitation altogether.
While reporting the story, however, Fox News showed images that falsely implied Philadelphia Eagles players had been kneeling during the anthem throughout the year. The footage showed players kneeling in prayer and was not taken during the playing of the national anthem before games.
The President released a statement Monday night informing the public that he had uninvited the Birds from the traditional post-Super Bowl victory visit. Why? In part because "only a small number of players decided to come," and in part because Trump said that players had been kneeling or standing in the locker room during the national anthem, which he said was "disrespectful." Many people on the internet made the reasonable assumption that Trump was talking about Eagles players.
originally posted by: Southern Guardian
Just to add:
Fox News apologizes for using 'unrelated footage' of Philadelphia Eagles kneeling during White House coverage
A study by the Program on International Policy Attitudes (PIPA) at the University of Maryland School of Public Affairs, as published in the Winter 03–04 issue of the Political Science Quarterly,[64] reported that poll-based findings indicated that viewers of Fox News, the Fox Broadcasting Company and local Fox affiliates were more likely than viewers of other news networks to hold three misperceptions:
67% of Fox viewers erroneously believed that the "U.S. has found clear evidence in Iraq that Saddam Hussein was working closely with the al Qaeda terrorist organization" (compared with 56% for CBS, 49% for NBC, 48% for CNN, 45% for ABC, 16% for NPR/PBS).
The erroneous belief that "The U.S. has found Weapons of Mass Destruction in Iraq" was held by 33% of Fox viewers and only 23% of CBS viewers, 19% for ABC, 20% for NBC, 20% for CNN and 11% for NPR/PBS.
35% of Fox viewers erroneously believed that "the majority of people [in the world] favor the U.S. having gone to war" with Iraq (compared with 28% for CBS, 27% for ABC, 24% for CNN, 20% for NBC, 5% for NPR/PBS).
originally posted by: Gothmog
And....
Your point is ?
Fox apologized. You will not get that from any of the other immoral networks . They would have just kept spoon feeding it to their folks until it stuck .
originally posted by: MiddleInsite
a reply to: Southern Guardian
Ask any Trump supporter. They'll say, "It must be true, it's on Fox". Shepard Smith isn't going to be happy about this.
Fox News = Fake News.
originally posted by: six67seven
Wonder if YOU will apologize
originally posted by: RowanBean
originally posted by: Gothmog
And....
Your point is ?
Fox apologized. You will not get that from any of the other immoral networks . They would have just kept spoon feeding it to their folks until it stuck .
The other networks usually make corrections. Fox News never do that as far as I know. Heck they don't even use proofreader and spell checker.