Did Fox Steal CNN Coverage?

AP ^ | 2/17/2003 | DAVID BAUDER

[meia]

Fox needs to invest in some cameramen and reporters. What would be the reaction if CNN pirated Fox coverage of news stories?

[martin_fierro]

I have just two words for CNN's high-handedness:

PEETAH AHNETT

[Republic of Texas]

CNN can try all they want, but they lost me as a viewer, forever, long ago.

[Huck]

I think the weaknesses of FNC are well known. Their breaking news coverage is pitiful. Their daytime programming is bad. They happen to OWN prime time cable news and Brit Hume's show is great. But when there is a breaking story, I turn to some other channel--any other channel. For big speeches, I'll turn to C-SPAN, so half the screen isn't cluttered up with video game style graphics.

[JennysCool]

Having been in television, here's the dope: EVERYBODY does this sort of thing at one time or another, with a tacit understanding that there will be some settling up later. This is nothing more than a hit piece on Fox. You can bet if Fox was the supposedly aggrieved party here, you wouldn't hear a word.

[Cicero]

Cry me a river.

[NormsRevenge]

When Conservatives Go Wild ... 8-o

[The Magical Mischief Tour]

So...

Does this mean that CNN watches FOX?

[meia]

Having been in television, here's the dope: EVERYBODY does this sort of thing at one time or another, with a tacit understanding that there will be some settling up later. This is nothing more than a hit piece on Fox. You can bet if Fox was the supposedly aggrieved party here, you wouldn't hear a word.

I've been in broadcasting for over 25 years and no, Everyone does not do this sort of thing. Yes it happens, and when it does, the pirates are rightly ridiculed and slammed. There is no difference in this and a reporter or columnist using someone else's research or writings as their own. It is plagiarism pure and simple. If conservatives are going to condemn plagiarism when it is done by the liberal media, then they also need to condemn it when it is done by the conservative media. If they had just acknowledged it when it happened instead of trying to cover it up, it wouldn't be a big deal. The coverup is always worse than the actual deed.

[FreeLibertarian]

Fox News Channel is a joke. I quit watching them several months ago.

[LanaTurnerOverdrive]

You mean the same quality network that brought us "When Animals Attack" stooped to these levels?

I can't believe it.

[txradioguy]

I can vouch for that. I've done television in the Army since 1992. We are constantly loaning the network guys video that we shoot. The only reason that CBS had video from Somalia of the attacks on the Paki soldiers in 1993 was because I gave them mine to copy. LOL!

[TheCPA]

I served as an expert in a case involving plagiarism. You are right it is plagiarism. It might be fair use under the copyright law, but plagiarism and copyright infringement are not the same thing. One can even plagiarize a work that is in the public domain if he palms off the work as his own.

[billorites]

If it wasn't for Daryn Kagan, I'd never watch CNN.

[xm177e2]

What would be the reaction if CNN pirated Fox coverage of news stories?

Hysterical, of course. That's how Fox is.

[YaYa123]

CNN is almost irrelevant. Judy Woodruff, I swear is shriveling up to pruneness. It's ABC that's ticking me off these days. I can't think of their State Dept reporter's name right now, but she is totally negative about President Bush, the War with Iraq, and her predictions about our disasterous foreign relations at the UN and NATO are more than pessimistic, they're dismal! Worse yet, she almost smiles when she gives out her gloom and doom reports, which she always prefaces with "my sources tell me". Wish I could think of her name.

[OldFriend]

We are talking national emergency here.....not everyday run of the mill programming.

[txradioguy]

But if WFAA had the only video at that point, wouldn't be up to them to decide who gets it. So ultimately it would be WFAA's fault that two different networks were using their video?

[meia]

But the difference is that you GAVE them the video to use. It was used with the permission of the person who was responsible for it. Fox took the work of others and passed it off as their own. They are still refusing to acknowledge that they plagiarized someone elses work.