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October 01, 2004
Off Topic: Fox News Hacked?
A break from polling for a moment.
Josh Marshall has been posting this afternoon (here, here and here) about a mysterious story about John Kerry that appeared on the Fox News site with some highly implausible quotes, then reappeared sans quotes.
I emailed him with what follows, but he probably hasn't seen it yet. A colleague in my office remembers reading the same story earlier this morning with different content:
The story that is on the Fox site [that Marshall first referenced here] is not the same one that was posted there this morning. I read it earlier. It was a legitimate story about the facial expressions of the candidates, mostly about Bush.
My colleague assumes Fox was hacked by someone, presumably an outsider.
Our contribution to fact checking. Now back to regular programming..
UPDATE: Nope, not an outsider, but a Fox reporter's bad joke gone awry. Also, thanks to Allen (see comments).
Posted by Mark Blumenthal on October 1, 2004 at 02:49 PM | Permalink
Comments
Fox has a comment up:
"Editor's Note
"Earlier Friday, FOXNews.com posted an item purporting to contain quotations from Kerry. The item was based on a reporter’s partial script that had been written in jest and should not have been posted or broadcast. We regret the error, which occurred because of fatigue and bad judgment, not malice."
Posted by: allen claxton | Oct 1, 2004 4:51:34 PM
You should probably stick to writing about polls. Fox news hacked? LOL Fox news is full of hacks. You gave them way too much credit and made yourself look bad.
Posted by: reader | Oct 1, 2004 11:41:49 PM
Assume the worst, Mark. 9/11 changed everything.
Posted by: jon | Oct 2, 2004 10:52:14 AM
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