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Did anyone hear Fox TV report that an AP reporter added a smear in a profile of the crew?
FOX TV | 2/1/2003 | TLBSHOW

Posted on 02/01/2003 3:07:19 PM PST by TLBSHOW

Did anyone hear Fox TV report that an AP reporter added a smear in a profile of the crew?

This was between 12:30 and 1:00 I believe.

The Fox person apologized and slammed AP writer.

Did anyone hear this besides me? What is AP thinking besides their normal hate selves.


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KEYWORDS: ap; associatedpress; assocpropaganda; badtaste; blamegame; columbiadisaster; columbiatragedy; feb12003; fox; foxnews; india; nasa; shuttle; spaceshuttle; sts107
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To: hotpotato
Return... because its the Ap report and reporter that I want to nail. I came in to the news where he apologized but nailed AP for it.
21 posted on 02/01/2003 3:22:30 PM PST by TLBSHOW (God Speed as Angles trending upward dare to fly Tribute to the Risk Takers)
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To: shadowman99
I usually don't like him....actually, I never like him.

But the apology was obviously genuine and he was clearly feeling a little stupid about having read the report live, without knowing what was in it.

He went a long way toward making me finally respect him.

22 posted on 02/01/2003 3:24:58 PM PST by Psycho_Bunny
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To: TLBSHOW
Lyford has it right, so I won't repeat.
I thought it was tasteless and unnecessary when I heard it, and it added to my respect for Shep when he said he was embarassed that he had repeated it.
23 posted on 02/01/2003 3:28:28 PM PST by EllaMinnow
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To: shadowman99
I heard the slam, which pissed me off. I didn't hear the apology. I'm glad Shep did that.

I know how you feel. I felt the same. I suspect the FOX News switchboard lit up like a Christmas tree after his comments. An apology was in order but the slip-up from Shepard Smith seemed sloppy for him.

24 posted on 02/01/2003 3:37:04 PM PST by hotpotato
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To: hotpotato
same bio ran in the german papers. Highlighted her mistake with the satellite in 1998, so untasteful.
25 posted on 02/01/2003 3:42:41 PM PST by americanbychoice
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To: TLBSHOW
Return... because its the Ap report and reporter that I want to nail.

Nah, not today. Like I said, I've seen him reading live before and stop mid-report and not complete the sentence because he thought it was inappropriate. Not sure where he left his head this a.m. The apology should have been immediate. My guess is it came following a flood of complaints. fwiw, I think he would like to take it back but I would have liked to have seen an immediate apology. You know, recognition that what he just said was completely out of line. I knew it. So did a lot of other good folks. An immediate apology would have appeared more genuine to me rather than later.

26 posted on 02/01/2003 3:45:10 PM PST by hotpotato
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To: americanbychoice; All
Thanks everyone and if you can nail down the report to its WRITTEN origin please post it here. Thanks!
27 posted on 02/01/2003 3:49:22 PM PST by TLBSHOW (God Speed as Angles trending upward dare to fly Tribute to the Risk Takers)
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To: TLBSHOW
I came in to the news where he apologized but nailed AP for it.

Are you saying Shepard Smith came in later and apologized but blamed the AP for his faux pas?

sheesh....

28 posted on 02/01/2003 3:53:15 PM PST by hotpotato
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To: TLBSHOW
The Bio (in German) is in Diewelt.de
29 posted on 02/01/2003 3:53:31 PM PST by americanbychoice
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To: hotpotato
I doubt many called and I don't see anything spoken about it here as I have looked over the older threads. He seemed upset that he read it and I believed him but it made me search the threads here for more about it and AP all day since I got back here. Just my opinion but the Fox Guy was not happy with himselve having read it. What I think is he was peeved when he was off air and said as much to his people or at least that is what I would of done.
30 posted on 02/01/2003 3:54:58 PM PST by TLBSHOW (God Speed as Angles trending upward dare to fly Tribute to the Risk Takers)
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To: King Nothing
It wasn't a smear as much as it just seemed inappropriate for the moment.
31 posted on 02/01/2003 3:56:25 PM PST by ResistorSister
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To: TLBSHOW
Shep Smith said she had made some kind of mistake on a previous mission. He later apologized and said it was inappropriate and embarrassing.
32 posted on 02/01/2003 3:57:01 PM PST by mrfixit514
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To: hotpotato
I see your new here at FR. Fox is the good guys. Yes he nailed AP for it. Remember this is an emotional story not some story about the rollerskating party last week.
I didn't start this thread to nail Fox, you may have another agenda but I don't. If you follow the liberal AP/Reuters like we do here, there lies your smearer!
33 posted on 02/01/2003 3:59:20 PM PST by TLBSHOW (God Speed as Angles trending upward dare to fly Tribute to the Risk Takers)
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To: mrfixit514
Also, I don't know if this means anything but Shep was gone immediatley after his apology and has not been back on FOX today.
34 posted on 02/01/2003 3:59:24 PM PST by mrfixit514
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To: mrfixit514
Shep is on now.
35 posted on 02/01/2003 4:00:46 PM PST by nhoward14 (Never judge a book by its movie.)
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To: TLBSHOW
Here is the AP story that Shepard Smith was reading:
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20030201/ap_wo_en_po/na_gen_us_shuttle_astronaut_thumbnails_3

Six Americans, one Israeli aboard space shuttle Columbia

Sat Feb 1,11:47 AM ET

By The Associated Press

A brief look at the six Americans and Israel's first astronaut aboard space shuttle Columbia:


Slideshow

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Commander Rick Husband, 45, Air Force colonel from Amarillo, Texas. The former test pilot was selected as an astronaut in 1994 on his fourth try. He made up his mind as a child that that was what he was going to do with his life.

"It's been pretty much a lifelong dream and just a thrill to be able to get to actually live it out," he said in an interview before Columbia's launch, his second spaceflight.

___

Pilot William McCool, 41, Navy commander from Lubbock, Texas, and father of three sons. He graduated second in his 1983 class at the Naval Academy, went on to test pilot school and became an astronaut in 1996. This was his first spaceflight.

___

Payload commander Michael Anderson, 43, the son of an Air Force man who grew up on military bases. He was flying for the Air Force when NASA (news - web sites) chose him in 1994 as one of only a handful of black astronauts. He traveled to Russia's Mir space station (news - web sites) in 1998. The lieutenant colonel was in charge of Columbia's dozens of science experiments. His home is in Spokane, Washington.

___

Kalpana Chawla, 41, emigrated to United States from India in 1980s and became an astronaut in 1994. On only other spaceflight, in 1997, she made mistakes that sent science satellite tumbling out of control. Other astronauts had to go on spacewalk to capture it.

___

David Brown, 46, a Navy captain, pilot and doctor. He joined the Navy after a medical internship, went on to fly the A-6E Intruder and F-18. He became an astronaut in 1996. Columbia's mission was his first spaceflight.

___

Laurel Clark, 41, a Navy diving medical officer aboard submarines, then flight surgeon who became an astronaut in 1996. On board Columbia to help with science experiments. Has 8-year-old son. Her home is in Racine, Wisconsin.

___

Ilan Ramon, 48, a colonel in Israel's air force and the first Israeli in space. His mother and grandmother survived Auschwitz death camp. Father fought for Israel's statehood alongside grandfather. Ramon fought in the Yom Kippur War in 1973 and the Lebanon War in 1982.

He served as a fighter pilot 1970s, 1980s and early 1990s, flew F-16s and F-4s. He was chosen as Israel's first astronaut in 1997, then moved to Houston the next year to train for shuttle flight. His wife and four children live in Tel Aviv.

___

On the Net:

NASA: http:/www.jsc.nasa.gov/bios


36 posted on 02/01/2003 4:01:12 PM PST by KS Flyover
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To: hotpotato
Nah, not today.

Don't blame you, I think you will find better coverage on ABC with Pete Jennings. In fact, I think you will find all around greater unbiased coverage there also. Jennings is numero uno in my book and yours too I suspect.......

37 posted on 02/01/2003 4:03:15 PM PST by Hot Tabasco
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To: americanbychoice
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38 posted on 02/01/2003 4:04:48 PM PST by TLBSHOW (God Speed as Angles trending upward dare to fly Tribute to the Risk Takers)
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To: TLBSHOW
How could you hear this? I thought you always said you don't have a TV.
39 posted on 02/01/2003 4:06:24 PM PST by Howlin
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To: TLBSHOW; All
You know, let me just say how appropriately this thread illustrates for me the uniqueness of Americans in general and conservatives in particular: we take umbrage at the offense of someone who is unable to defend themselves--and we don't discriminate on the basis of race, religion, ethnicity, or sex.

I know we say it often, but it bears repeating: we don't like seeing our fellow human beings attacked. True conservatives aren't racist, sexist, or otherwise bigoted.

I'll go out on a limb here and say that I bet Kalpana Chawla doesn't fit the "conservative" profile. Yet, here we are standing in defense of a woman we don't know anything about, but we know she isn't around to defend herself. And I find that admirable.

I'm not saying we're perfect: we have a lot to learn, and a long way to go--but I'm proud of all the FREEPers who stand up for those who can no longer stand for themselves. God bless you.

Keep doing that everyday for the helpless in your family, church and community.

40 posted on 02/01/2003 4:10:13 PM PST by Recovering_Democrat
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