You may have seen yesterday, we showed video of Fox News Channel running video of Rep. John Conyers (D-MI) while discussing the indictment of Rep. Bill Jefferson (D-LA). We heard Fox was running an ‘apology’ at 1:15 PM this afternoon.
But it was pretty feeble.
The Fox anchor didn’t note that they’d shown video of one African-American congressman (Conyers) in place of another (Jefferson). They just said they’d “mistakenly run the wrong video” with no explanation of what the mistake was. I’m not sure what an ‘apology’ means one way or another. But it seems like a clarification was in order that the guy they showed, Conyers, actually didn’t get indicted for anything.
It is convenient for some to try to tarnish Conyers though since he’s played a lead role in investigating the Attorney Purge.
Late Update: Fox’s screwup was first reported yesterday by Josh Gerstein of The New York Sun.
Late Video Update: Here’s Fox’s ‘apology’:
