Schumacher
Senior Member
A cat fight between these 2. Let's hope they knock out each other. It'll be better for the news media industry. 
Sep 19, 2009
CNN to Fox: You lie
CNN anchor Rick Sanchez has torn into Fox News over its recent US national ad about other networks' coverage of a 'tea party' march on Sept 12.
In the ad, which ran in The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal and The New York Post, Fox News implies that ABC, CBS, NBC, MSNBC and CNN missed the story of thousands of protesters who marched in Washington last Saturday.
The accused networks issued statements and details about their coverage, with CNN being the most vocal. Sanchez called the ad an offence to himself and his colleagues, then ran CNN's video coverage of the event, with reporters live on site.
Sanchez went on to highlight the similarities between the shot used in the Fox ad and the tower shot used repeatedly by CNN while covering the story, which had the Canadian flag clearly in both pictures. 'Funny how you could say that we didn't cover the event by using that picture, that picture that looks an awful lot like our tower shot,' Sanchez said.
'If you want even more proof of our coverage, maybe you should just watch your own shows,' Sanchez added, playing a clip from the Fox News show The O'Reilly Factor. In the clip, host Bill O'Reilly said: 'CNN, as we mentioned, covered the anti-Obama protests, of course, but ran into a little trouble.'
'Here's the fact, we did cover the event. What we didn't do is promote the event,' Sanchez said. 'That's not what real news organisations are supposed to do. We covered the event. I would invite you to look into that distinction between those two words - promote, and cover.'
Sanchez said CNN had put in a call to Fox news and expected an apology, ending his piece with a 'pithy phrase' recently in the news. 'Two words. It's all I need. You lie.'
An ABC News spokesman called the Fox ad 'demonstrably false', reported The New York Times. Jeffrey Schneider also said his network was outraged at The Washington Post for accepting the ad. He said that ABC was not surprised The Wall Street Journal and The New York Post had ran the ad, because both papers had the same parent company as Fox, Rupert Murdoch's News Corp.
A spokesman for The Washington Post said by e-mail that while the paper has a policy not to accept advertising based on false claims, it was the paper's judgment that 'Fox News was expressing its opinion on how its competitors covered the story in an ad to promote itself'.
Fox defended its ads in an e-mailed statement from a marketing executive. 'Generally speaking, it's fair to say that from the tea party movement ... to Acorn ... to the march on 9/12, the networks either ignored the story, marginalised it or misrepresented the significance of it altogether,' said Michael Tammero, vice-president of marketing for Fox News.
Sep 19, 2009
CNN to Fox: You lie
CNN anchor Rick Sanchez has torn into Fox News over its recent US national ad about other networks' coverage of a 'tea party' march on Sept 12.
In the ad, which ran in The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal and The New York Post, Fox News implies that ABC, CBS, NBC, MSNBC and CNN missed the story of thousands of protesters who marched in Washington last Saturday.
The accused networks issued statements and details about their coverage, with CNN being the most vocal. Sanchez called the ad an offence to himself and his colleagues, then ran CNN's video coverage of the event, with reporters live on site.
Sanchez went on to highlight the similarities between the shot used in the Fox ad and the tower shot used repeatedly by CNN while covering the story, which had the Canadian flag clearly in both pictures. 'Funny how you could say that we didn't cover the event by using that picture, that picture that looks an awful lot like our tower shot,' Sanchez said.
'If you want even more proof of our coverage, maybe you should just watch your own shows,' Sanchez added, playing a clip from the Fox News show The O'Reilly Factor. In the clip, host Bill O'Reilly said: 'CNN, as we mentioned, covered the anti-Obama protests, of course, but ran into a little trouble.'
'Here's the fact, we did cover the event. What we didn't do is promote the event,' Sanchez said. 'That's not what real news organisations are supposed to do. We covered the event. I would invite you to look into that distinction between those two words - promote, and cover.'
Sanchez said CNN had put in a call to Fox news and expected an apology, ending his piece with a 'pithy phrase' recently in the news. 'Two words. It's all I need. You lie.'
An ABC News spokesman called the Fox ad 'demonstrably false', reported The New York Times. Jeffrey Schneider also said his network was outraged at The Washington Post for accepting the ad. He said that ABC was not surprised The Wall Street Journal and The New York Post had ran the ad, because both papers had the same parent company as Fox, Rupert Murdoch's News Corp.
A spokesman for The Washington Post said by e-mail that while the paper has a policy not to accept advertising based on false claims, it was the paper's judgment that 'Fox News was expressing its opinion on how its competitors covered the story in an ad to promote itself'.
Fox defended its ads in an e-mailed statement from a marketing executive. 'Generally speaking, it's fair to say that from the tea party movement ... to Acorn ... to the march on 9/12, the networks either ignored the story, marginalised it or misrepresented the significance of it altogether,' said Michael Tammero, vice-president of marketing for Fox News.
