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FOX-TV & the faux Jay Cutler newspaper headlines

Discussion in 'Journalism topics only' started by Gonna Buy me a Dog, Sep 20, 2011.

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  1. Starman

    Starman Well-Known Member

    Ultimately, they are.

    Unprofessional, unethical and run with a lowest-common-denominator mentality (not to mention a complete cynical contempt for the audience).

    It comes from the top.

    Oh, and P.S.:

    FOX LIES
     
    Starman, Sep 21, 2011
    #13
  2. YGBFKM

    YGBFKM Guest

    ANEURYSM!
     
    YGBFKM, Sep 21, 2011
    #14
  3. Versatile

    Versatile Active Member

    I don't care for Fox Sports' TV broadcasting, but I like a number of their writers on the Web. Greg Couch, Jen Engle Floyd, Thayer Evans, Billy Witz, Reid Forgrave, Mark Kriegel, Ives Garlacep, Ken Rosenthal and Lee Spencer are all fine professional sports journalists. (I might have missed two of the site's bigger names. Oops.)

    Similarly, there's a lot of good work being done at the Wall Street Journal and the New York Post.

    I don't think it's fair to paint News Corp companies with one broad brushstroke. (And I swear I don't work for a Murdoch paper.)
     
    Versatile, Sep 22, 2011
    #15
  4. DanOregon

    DanOregon Well-Known Member

    I guess I should have figured something was fishy when the headlines came spinning toward the camera.
     
    DanOregon, Sep 22, 2011
    #16
  5. Starman

    Starman Well-Known Member

    I am sure some of the front door cashiers at whorehouses are fine upstanding citizens too.

    But when you go to work in a whorehouse you know what you're getting into.
     
    Starman, Sep 22, 2011
    #17
  6. HanSenSE

    HanSenSE Well-Known Member

    Fox unsure if it needs to apologize to Cutler:

    http://www.chicagotribune.com/sports/football/bears/chi-fox-unsure-about-onair-apology-for-fake-cutler-headlines-20110922,0,2396909.story
     
    HanSenSE, Sep 22, 2011
    #18
  7. da man

    da man Well-Known Member

    No, it needs to apologize to newspapers.






    OK, and Cutler, too.
     
    da man, Sep 23, 2011
    #19
  8. HanSenSE

    HanSenSE Well-Known Member

    Let's see ... the whole controversy was started because of one Tweet by a player, who couldn't have known Cutler was hurt and couldn't go since it wasn't announced until a day or two later. It appears Fox ignored that and went for the sensational, and false, headline instead. So, yes, I think he's owed an apology.
     
    HanSenSE, Sep 24, 2011
    #20
  9. 21

    21 Well-Known Member

    'We apologize to Jay Cutler, the Chicago Bears, and everyone else involved!'

    --Curt Menafee's cheery statement on Sunday's pregame show.
     
    21, Sep 25, 2011
    #21
  10. Ben_Hecht

    Ben_Hecht Active Member


    If/when they do it again, this is just drool.
     
    Ben_Hecht, Sep 25, 2011
    #22
  11. MightyMouse

    MightyMouse Member

    Good, do it on the Fox pregame show, where all of 17 people will see it. Yeah, that's how you do an apology.
     
    MightyMouse, Sep 26, 2011
    #23
  12. jlee

    jlee Well-Known Member

    Is that any worse than putting corrections at the bottom of page 2?
     
    jlee, Sep 26, 2011
    #24
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