Sunday, September 20, 2009

BUSTED: Fox "News" Producer Caught Staging Teabagger Protest

I remember when I first studied journalism that if anyone got caught doing what this Fox Republican Advocacy Channel producer did, they'd be fired.
Evidentally, this sort of conduct passes for sound journalistic principles in the eyes of the FRAC, which long ago ceased to be a legitimate news channel.
Reports the Huffington Post:
A Fox News Channel producer has been caught in a behind-the-scenes video rallying the crowd during last weekend's 9/12 protest in Washington.
The Huffington Post has confirmed that the woman in the below video — seen raising her arms to rally the crowd behind Griff Jenkins, who was reporting from the scene for Fox News — is Fox News producer Heidi Noonan.

The Huffington Post piece continues:
The video shows the producer on her cell phone as she urges the crowd behind Jenkins to cheer louder. An "I'm A Foxaholic" poster appears nearby.

The Huffington Post piece reported that Noonan, according to a Fox spokesman, was already "disciplined," but what kind of discipline?
Back in my journalism days, that discipline would have been immediate firing, but I guess that doesn't apply at Fox so long as the producers and others promote right-wing thoughts like those expressed at the rally.

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