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 ...
They’ll blame Trump, as that is one of his favorite shows.
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.
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?
Amen.
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.
LOL!
Amen to that. God bless her and her family.
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). :-)
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