When The News is News

Bad journalist, bad!

Apparently at Fox News, if it’s a slow news day, you can always make your own. A producer for the cable network has been caught on tape waving her arms to hype a crowd from behind-the-scenes at a 9/12 rally while reporter Griff Jenkins tells Glenn Beck about the impassioned “grassroots movement” at hand. Jenkins continues in the segment, “this is an uprising,” adding “we are at the beginning of a political movement.” The network and Beck himself had promoted the 9/12 movement extensively prior to the event, chiding other media for ignoring the protest … The channel’s Washington bureau chief responded to the video: “The employee is a young, relatively inexperienced associate producer who realizes she made a mistake and has been disciplined.” Not exactly ripped from the pages of a journalism textbook. (The Huffington Post)

My favorite part is she did this knowing she was on camera. It’s not like she was caught by some bystander taping her - this was done for television! Ugh.