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'Fox & Friends' accidentally shows graphic saying Ruth Bader Ginsburg is dead
The Hill ^ | January 21, 2019 | Avery Anapol

Posted on 01/21/2019 7:03:17 AM PST by Zakeet

The hosts of "Fox & Friends" on Monday apologized for showing a graphic saying Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg is dead, blaming a control room error.

The graphic, similar to those marking the deaths of other famous figures, briefly showed a photo of Ginsburg and the dates "1933-2019."

"We need to apologize ... A technical error in the control room triggered a graphic of RBG with a date on it," co-host Steve Doocy said later in the program. "We don't want to make it seem anything other than that was a mistake. That was an accident."

"We apologize, big mistake," co-host Ainsley Earhardt added.

(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...


TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: foxfriends; oops; ruthbaderginsburg; supremecourt
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To: VinnieCCT

They’ll blame Trump, as that is one of his favorite shows.


121 posted on 01/21/2019 9:28:42 AM PST by Rusty0604
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To: Pravious

My Facebook page has 1.5MM followers... we have and will again accidentally post content that wasn’t ready for consumption. On a smaller scale it happened yesterday. An email that was supposed to go out tomorrow went out yesterday providing a link to a page that wouldn’t be available until tomorrow. Our support box was flooded with ‘the page won’t load’ emails... all on me because I accidentally programmed an incorrect date.

I don’t know how their system works but I worked for an 11 billion dollar company in my last job as the Director of Digital Marketing... these things can and do happen.

Now maybe you’re right... someone did something for a reason. *shrug* Just offering a perspective.


122 posted on 01/21/2019 10:41:48 AM PST by Frapster (Let's not get distracted!)
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To: Frapster

Well, perhaps it’s something like that.

Maybe there’s a directory of ready-to-go splash screens that Fox News uses and someone meant to put “Cold weather today!” on the screen and accidentally put up “Ruth Bader Ginsburg Drops Dead!” instead - but, then, I’d have to wonder why that image would be wherever it was that someone snagged it from instead of somewhere secure where this kind of error couldn’t happen. I just don’t know.

Anyone out there have any experience in television? How DO suchg things get pulled and put up on-air?


123 posted on 01/21/2019 11:10:31 AM PST by Pravious
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To: neverevergiveup
I would like her to live a longer life, with happiness, but just not on the SC.

Amen.

124 posted on 01/21/2019 11:27:25 AM PST by Faith
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To: bitt
"The Supreme Court said in a statement that Ginsburg died at home."


125 posted on 01/21/2019 2:52:48 PM PST by Brown Deer (America First!)
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To: Zakeet

Ted Kennedy was dead for months before the rats announced his demise.

“Weekend at Bernies” wasn’t a movie; it was a training manual for rats.


126 posted on 01/21/2019 3:30:59 PM PST by sergeantdave (Teach a man to fish and he'll steal your gear and sell it)
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To: Old Yeller

LOL!


127 posted on 01/21/2019 3:33:34 PM PST by mindburglar (Don't bother. I don't debate.)
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To: Zakeet
Was Marty Ginsburg given special permission to be buried in Arlington?

Arlington National Cemetery's eligibility requirements for burial and inurnment are different from other national cemeteries that are maintained by the Department of Veterans Affairs. Eligibility for in-ground burial at Arlington National Cemetery is the most stringent of all U.S. national cemeteries.
128 posted on 01/21/2019 7:37:30 PM PST by Brown Deer (America First!)
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To: ez

Amen to that. God bless her and her family.


129 posted on 01/22/2019 11:55:06 AM PST by romanesq (For George Soros so loved the world, he gave us Obama)
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To: JimRed; DungeonMaster
How long were they half-staffed for Justice Scalia when he was murdered?

That's exactly the question that came to my mind.

So, I looked it up. What I found was tradition and/or presidential proclamation says for a departed associate justice of the Supreme Court, flags shall be at half-staff from the day of death until interment.

At my house, soon after I hear RBG has begun to assume room temperature, I plan to fly the Gadsden Flag again (and not at half-staff). :-)

130 posted on 01/22/2019 1:42:53 PM PST by newgeezer ("... it is [the people's] right and duty to be at all times armed." - Thomas Jefferson, 5 June 1824)
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