Posted on 08/16/2018 7:30:50 PM PDT by EdnaMode
Fox News has apologized for mistakingly using a photo of Patti LaBelle in its Aretha Franklin tribute Thursday.
“We sincerely apologize to Aretha Franklin’s family and friends,” Jessica Santostefano, Vice President, Media Desk at Fox News told TheWrap in a statement. “Our intention was to honor the icon using a secondary image of her performing with Patti LaBelle in the full screen graphic, but the image of Ms. Franklin was obscured in that process, which we deeply regret.”
The image featured Franklin in the foreground and LaBelle in the background.
The error was caught by online observers who noticed that the picture at the end of the obit featured LaBelle singing “Over the Rainbow” during a “Women of Soul: In Performance at the White House” special, which aired on PBS in 2014.
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Journalism degrees are earned by folks who can’t pass High School Algebra.
Just think of the late Joe Tex: “I GOTT CHA!!”
10 year sleeper, huh?
That’s reasonably impressive.
Not a big deal but the Left media will start to call it “photo-racism” despite the fact that both of these great women singers are black.
Really?
They didn’t show Aretha any R.E.S.P.E.C.T.
oh no! Seriously?
Close enough for journalist work.
Yeah, the “in forum” link under the name is even better.
That’s a true FReeper there....for sure.
Sounds like reparations are in order. Save those Aretha Franklin photos for when Patti LaBelle kicks over.
Fox News has gone so downhill.
Shep’s fault.
I stopped watching ever since Megyn Kelly went primetime. (I know her show is no longer on the lineup, but quality of programming has not improved.)
Some way, some how, it has to be due to racism. It’s a universal law.
what a bunch of dumb clucks....
Hey sipow.
Hope you have another sleeper account. This one’s close to done.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fy5L97Obq1k
And, incidentally...you’re absolutely correct. Certain minds do look alike.
I see your mind. Run away.
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