Originally Posted By: Matter-eater Man
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Fox uses old Palin crowd footage
Fox's Sean Hannity apologized last week after the Daily Show caught the host showing footage of the larger crowd at the 9/12 rally when discussing a smaller, anti-health care reform event.

But today there was another instance of Fox running old footage for a more recent event.

ThinkProgress noticed Fox's Gregg Jarrett telling viewers that Sarah Palin was "continuing to draw huge crowds while she's promoting her brand new book," a statement accompanied by images of, well, huge crowds. The problem is the some of these images -- which Jarrett said were "just coming in to us -- appear to have been taken from the 2008 campaign.

Media Matters points out that one image in the Fox clip was from a Palin rally in Ocala, Florida from November 2008.

A Fox spokesperson was not immediately available for comment but I'll update when I hear back from the network.

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Here's what FOX came up with after being caught using old footage to make Palin's crowd look bigger...
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UPDATE: Fox responded to the matter via The Swamp.

"This was a production error in which the copy editor changed a script and didn't alert the control room to update the video,'' Michael Clemente, senior vice president of news at FOX, sad this evening. "There will be an on-air explanation during Happening Now on Thursday."


Fair play!