TCA: Fox News Defends Hiring Karl Rove as Analyst - 7/14/2008 7:49:00 PM

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Chris Wallace On Keith Olbermann, and An Admission from John Moody
Published 7/15/2008 at mediabistro.com: TVNewser
... B&C;'s Marisa Guthrie writes about Wallace coming to Rove's defense. "I'm struck by what I think is a double standard in the questions that particularly Karl is being asked here," said Wallace. "I question whether if it were a conservative Congress that had subpoenaed ...

Fox News Very Sorry It Made Times Staffers Look Like Gremlins
Published 7/15/2008 by Jossip at Jossip
... regrettable,” Moody said. Later Moody added that he “wished” Fox & Friends “hadn’t done it. They didn’t ask me first.” But he said the incident will not result in any official standards adjustments at the show. Moody called Fox & Friends a mix of news and entertainment but conceded that some of the “humor” on the show may not appeal to some viewers. “Some of the humor gets edgy,” he added, “and some people don’t think it’s funny.” [B&C] ...

Mea Culpa Watch: "Terrorist Fist-Jab," Photoshop Smears [Apologies]
Published 7/15/2008 by Pareene at Gawker
... and then that item ended up on other blogs, and then E.D. kinda changed it and said it on TV without explaining it, making it sound like a common response to the harmless gesture. You see? All Beam's fault! And in other "kind of apologizing for other people's idiocy" news, Fox has apologized for photoshopping two New York Times reporters! Sort of! Fox News executive vice president John Moody totally feels bad about how the jokers at Fox and Friends did that thing they did. “It was regrettable,” Moody said. Later ...