New York – Fox News apologized after airing a graphic implying that Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg had died.
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The graphic appeared on screen on Monday morning showed a portrait of Ginsburg in front of the Supreme Court building in Washington D.C. with the words “Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg 1933-2019. It flashed on the screen for about two seconds.
“This was a technical error that emanated from the graphics team,” a Fox News spokesperson told several news outlets.
We need to apologize,” said Fox & Friends co-host Steve Doocy. “A technical error in the control room triggered a graphic of Ruth Bader Ginsburg with a date on it. We don’t want to make it seem anything other than ― that was a mistake. That was an accident. We believe she is still at home recovering from surgery. Big mistake.”
Ginsburg is working from home after missing oral arguments for the first time in her 25 years on the bench following a Dec. 21 operation to remove cancer from her lungs.
Ginsburg, 85, has had two other bouts of cancer. Following the surgery last month, she was declared cancer-free.
She leads the court’s liberal minority and in 2018 vowed to serve another five years, past a second term for President Donald Trump if he is re-elected.
Unlike CNN, FOX News apologizes when they make an error.
People make mistakes. No big deal.
Like so many books came out after Rav Shtieneman zt”l died, because they were prepared in advance for publication after his death.
Seems like here too, since she was going under for cancer, they prepared in advance to have something read immediately after her death, but she did not die, so they released it since it was interesting but did not take out all parts that made her past life….
I’m not sure how a mistake like this is made
Big deal;it should be noted that Fox has never publicly apologized to its staff, for the abuse and harassment that they were subjected to for years, by that sexual pervert, Bill O’Reilly, as well as other freaks on its staff, who did essentially the same thing. Fox covered up its dirty laundry for years with hush money.
It happened to Bob Hope. He was watching it with his aide and asked him if it was true.