hmmmmmmmm someone at faux avec standards?

or is it all a ruse? an email released on purpose to attempt to make us think someone over there has a soul?
(for the record i think a couple of people at faux have souls. shepard smith being one of them)


Internal Fox News Email Addresses “Standards” After 9/12 Flap

by Steve Krakauer

Mediaite has obtained an email from Fox News Vice President of News and Washington managing editor Bill Sammon to the staff of the D.C. bureau, in the wake of an FNC producer caught pumping up the crowd during the 9/12 tea party broadcast.

The email, with the subject line “standards,” addresses the controversy head-on: “We do not cheerlead for one cause or another,” writes Sammon. Full email after the jump:

Sammon uses the incident to drive home the need to be objective:

We do not rile up a crowd. If a crowd happens to be boisterous when we show it on TV, so be it. If it happens to be quiet, that’s fine, too. It’s not our job to affect the crowd’s behavior one way or the other. Again, we’re journalists, not participants — and certainly not performers........