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Fox news provides innocent person's home address on air, labeled as a terrorist home!
by Decius at 8:37 am EDT, Aug 29, 2005 |
For the last 2 1/2 weeks, the lives of the couple and their three children have been plunged into an unsettling routine of drivers shouting profanities, stopping to photograph their house and — most recently — spray-painting a slogan on their property. Their house, a suburban fixer-upper the Voricks bought three years ago, was wrongly identified in a cable news broadcast as the home of a terrorist. In what Fox News officials concede was a mistake, John Loftus, a former U.S. prosecutor, gave out the address Aug. 7, saying it was the home of a Middle Eastern man, Iyad K. Hilal, who was the leader of a terrorist group with ties to those responsible for the July 7 bombings in London. Satellite photos of the house and directions to the residence were posted online.
This is, perhaps, the worst example of irresponsible journalism that I have EVER heard of. This is absolutely terrible! Worst part: The Voricks say they have yet to see or hear a correction.
There is a rumor that Fox fired Loftus (three weeks after the broadcast as word has started to get out) but I haven't found a reliable report. |
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RE: Fox news provides innocent person's home address on air, labeled as a terrorist home!
by k at 1:32 pm EDT, Aug 29, 2005 |
Decius wrote: For the last 2 1/2 weeks, the lives of the couple and their three children have been plunged into an unsettling routine of drivers shouting profanities, stopping to photograph their house and — most recently — spray-painting a slogan on their property. Their house, a suburban fixer-upper the Voricks bought three years ago, was wrongly identified in a cable news broadcast as the home of a terrorist. In what Fox News officials concede was a mistake, John Loftus, a former U.S. prosecutor, gave out the address Aug. 7, saying it was the home of a Middle Eastern man, Iyad K. Hilal, who was the leader of a terrorist group with ties to those responsible for the July 7 bombings in London. Satellite photos of the house and directions to the residence were posted online.
This is, perhaps, the worst example of irresponsible journalism that I have EVER heard of. This is absolutely terrible! Worst part: The Voricks say they have yet to see or hear a correction.
There is a rumor that Fox fired Loftus (three weeks after the broadcast as word has started to get out) but I haven't found a reliable report.
That's completely absurd, and I don't think the blame can fall 100% on Mr. Loftus either. I'd be calling down fire from the heavens if that shit happened to me. |
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Fox news provides innocent person's home address on air, labeled as a terrorist home!
by Palindrome at 5:07 pm EDT, Aug 29, 2005 |
For the last 2 1/2 weeks, the lives of the couple and their three children have been plunged into an unsettling routine of drivers shouting profanities, stopping to photograph their house and — most recently — spray-painting a slogan on their property. Their house, a suburban fixer-upper the Voricks bought three years ago, was wrongly identified in a cable news broadcast as the home of a terrorist. In what Fox News officials concede was a mistake, John Loftus, a former U.S. prosecutor, gave out the address Aug. 7, saying it was the home of a Middle Eastern man, Iyad K. Hilal, who was the leader of a terrorist group with ties to those responsible for the July 7 bombings in London. Satellite photos of the house and directions to the residence were posted online.
This is, perhaps, the worst example of irresponsible journalism that I have EVER heard of. This is absolutely terrible! Worst part: The Voricks say they have yet to see or hear a correction.
How can Fox News get away with this kind of stuff? |
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