Fox News airs graphic (incorrectly) stating Ruth Bader Ginsburg has died
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Not necessarily to scoop anyone, just to have it ready. Newspapers occasionally publish obituaries too early because for famous people who are sick they pre-write them too.
I mean they've probably got a list of old folks like this with graphics
News is about being first, are we surprised
News is about being first, are we surprised
This.
Not to play devil's advocate or to defend FOX. I sure any famous person who's up there in age or really sick, most media companies would already have graphics or interviews of colleagues made up before the event happen. When the event did happen, they have the interviews and graphics in place.
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Well, the mistake was airing it.
CNN and MSNBC have this same graphic ready for when she passes.
By 'technical error' they mean someone was either sending a message or did it for the lulz. They wont explain that though.
Yeah i thought this was common knowledge. Most news websites also have obituaries ready for people as well. Hell. I'm sure most places had one written for stan lee stretching back to the late 90s.
This is an extremely common thing.
FOX however posted this on accident because they're evil.
Definitely. How do you accidentally have a graphic like that ready to air and then... air it?
As others have stated in this thread, every major news network in America has a graphic like this ready. Papers and magazines have their obituarys ready and pre-written, too. Not only for RBG, but for every major celebrity or person of importance who are close or in danger of dying.
Then your previous post was weirdly worded, sincethey don't "accidentally" have that graphic ready to air, they have it very purposely ready to air, like every other network has, too.
Everything else is honestly nothing but silly conspiracy theories in light of errors like these happening all the time in every part of media. You don't have to make up flimsy stories in your mind to make FOX News seem evil. They do that pretty well on their own.
edit: If you're ever posting a thirty year old comedy bit, make sure you watch it to the end to remind yourself whether it goes downhill quickly. Because chances are, it does.
Directly on topic, yes every network has these but no not every network "accidentally" plasters them on live broadcast.
Directly on topic, yes every network has these but no not every network "accidentally" plasters them on live broadcast.
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If you know they are evil you'd know better than to give them the benefit of the doubt.
True but I there's a bunch of other processes to go through before it's popping in a broadcast I assume, unless there's a big red button that says "broadcast anything" somebody pressed by accident.
The rule the GOP made up which allowed them to steal Obama's nomination of Merrick Garland. McConnell has already said he will vote for a SC nominee in the next election year so thats not a thing they do anymore I guess.
Can only punish them at the ballot box and they won't care because they'll have a generational SCOTUS majority.
There's literally nothing anybody can do about it. If RBG dies before 01/03/2021, they are turning that seat dark red for a generation.
There's a whole episode of 30 Rock about it, everyone does it [as bleak as it is] but yeah, accidentally [side-eye] letting it air, whooooooops
Media, in general, is evil. News outlets are all this way.