Fox News Omits Applause from Obama Speech

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    Originally Posted By ecdc

    <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/05/25/fox-news-video-omits-appl_n_588447.html" target="_blank">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/...447.html</a>

    Cadets at West Point applauded the President when he talked about ending the war in Iraq. Curiously, the Fox News coverage of this removed the applause, so it sounds like there's an awkward pause of the cadets refusing to support Obama. Stay classy!
     
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    Originally Posted By SuperDry

    Fair and balanced - we report, you decide!
     
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    Originally Posted By Kar2oonMan

    Hey, they refrained from the temptation to add in the sound of crickets chirping, so we should be thankful I guess.
     
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    Originally Posted By oc_dean

    Fairness Doctrine, anyone??
     
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    Originally Posted By markymouse

    This one sounds like not such a big deal when you read that the applause was included when the clip was shown on Fox news on tv, and was only missing from the online version.
     
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    Originally Posted By WorldDisney

    Apparently it was just a technical error. I can believe that actually.
     
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    Originally Posted By Mr X

    Except that their "technical errors" occur frequently and in surprisingly slanted ways (like whenever a Republican gets caught in a sex scandal suddenly, OOPS, there's a "D" next to his name instead of an "R".

    Whoopsie.

    I don't buy it. Not from THAT blatant propaganda factory.
     
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    Originally Posted By SuperDry

    ... and even if it was an innocent mistake, how does the noise machine handle it when the "mainstream media" makes such a mistake? They go ballistic, and highlight it as "yet another example" of the biased media. Yet, I would wager that even a heavy noise machine consumer that is tuned in even 10+ hours a day to it's various outlets is not even aware that this happened. I wonder why that is?
     

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