You have got to be kidding me.
You begin to wonder: How are the onscreen graphics folks at Fox News still employed?
This is the fourth screw-up of the week for Fox News graphics.
Go here to find a horribly misleading fever chart that — Surprise! — makes the president’s track record on unemployment look much worse than it already is.
And then go here to find two laughable mapping label errors.
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Maybe, just maybe, the person is just doing their job.
What may be appalling to seem may be appealing to others.
Who knows?
I’d be curious as to what was said or ran while the graphic was up. If the anchor/reporter mentioned Romney, you would think that would have directed someone in the studio to notice the photo is wrong.
If the report didn’t lead the viewer to look, perhaps few would have noticed the error.
I’d just like to know how the context played out. Was it intentional, a gag that wasn’t changed, incompetence or is the filing system for stock images of Romney just filled with photos of random moderates, all labeled as “Romney”
At least one other example in my collection involved an incorrect image by Fox News:
http://apple.copydesk.org/2011/06/06/why-fox-news-needs-a-copy-editor-2/
They used a picture of Tina Fey on Saturday Night Live in place of a picture of Sarah Palin.
You would think a post lambasting somebody for making an error would cause the poster to be extra-careful about errors, but not so — Mr. Apple’s sentence in the critical post has its own typo:
Go here to find a horribly misleading fever chart that — Surprise! — makes the president’s track record on unemployment look much worse that it already is.
Note that “that” should be “than” …
Minor. Obviously. But errors in today’s media mostly stem from a rush to get something up on viewers’/readers’ screens, be it typos or bad mug shots.
But, as trivial as it is, Apple is no more innocent than Fox News. Let’s add Charles Apple’s blog as the latest in the “who needs a copy editor” list.
Thanks for the catch, Michael. Fixed.