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

[TLBSHOW]

thanks and the AP version later looked like this.

As I posted it on the prayer then while searchng for that one.
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Here are brief profiles of the crew of Space Shuttle Columbia.

Shuttle Commander Rick Douglas Husband, a U.S. Air Force colonel and former test pilot, was on his second shuttle mission, having flown previously in 1999 aboard shuttle Discovery.

Born July 12, 1957, in Amarillo, Texas, and married with two children, Husband joined the astronaut program in 1994 and worked as chief of safety for NASA's Astronaut Office.

His previous shuttle voyage was a 10-day mission that docked with the International Space Station and delivered supplies in preparation for the arrival of the first crew to live aboard the orbiting outpost.

He piloted that flight, logging 235 hours, 13 minutes in space.

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Shuttle Pilot William C. McCool, a U.S. Navy commander, was on his first shuttle voyage aboard Columbia, but had wide experience as a military aircraft pilot with more than 2,800 hours of flight experience in 24 aircraft.

A test pilot at the Strike Aircraft Test Directorate at Patuxent River, Maryland, McCool managed projects ranging from airframe fatigue life studies to avionics upgrades. He acted as test pilot of the EA-6B Prowler, a radar-jamming warplane.

His primary efforts, however, were dedicated to dedicated to flight test of the Advanced Capability (ADVCAP) EA-6B.

Married, McCool was born Sept. 23, 1961, in San Diego, California.

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Shuttle Payload Commander Michael Anderson, a U.S. Air Force lieutenant colonel, was responsible for science hardware aboard Columbia.

Anderson joined the astronaut corps in 1994 and previously flew aboard shuttle Endeavour in 1998, the eighth docking mission between a space shuttle and the Soviet-made Mir spacecraft. Anderson logged over 211 hours in space on that voyage.

Born in Plattsburgh, New York, on Dec. 25, 1959, Anderson counted Spokane, Washington, as his hometown. He was married.

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Ilan Ramon, an Israeli Air Force colonel, was the first Israeli to go into space. At 48, he was a veteran of Israel's Yom Kippur War and the son of a Holocaust survivor from the Auschwitz concentration camp. In memory of family members who died under Nazi rule during the World War II, Ramon took with him a pencil drawing by a Czech Jewish boy.

Ramon logged more than 3,000 flight hours on the Israeli A-4, Mirage III-C, and F-4, and more than 1,000 flight hours on the F-16.

Selected by NASA as a payload specialist in 1997, Ramon began training in July 1998. Born June 20, 1954, in Tel Aviv, Israel, Ramon was married with four children.

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Laurel Blair, a U.S. Navy commander and a physician, was on her first NASA shuttle voyage.

An avid scuba diver, Blair did active duty training with the Diving Medicine Department at the Naval Experimental Diving Unit during medical school. During a later assignment in Scotland, she dove with U.S. Navy divers and Naval Special Warfare Unit Two Seals and performed numerous medical evacuations from U.S. submarines. She was designated a Naval Submarine Medical Office and Diving Medical Officer. and a Naval Flight Surgeon.

Selected for the astronaut corps in 1996, Clark was married with one child. She was born in Iowa but called Racine, Wisconsin, her hometown. Her birth date was not immediately available.

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David Brown, a U.S. Navy captain and surgeon, was a gymnast who performed as an acrobat, unicyclist and stilt walker while attending college.

Brown joined the Navy after his medical internship, and after completing flight surgeon training in 1984, became director of medical services at the Navy Branch Hospital in Adak, Alaska.

Brown logged more than 2,700 flight hours with 1,700 in high performance military aircraft. The Columbia mission was his first space flight. He joined the astronaut program in 1996.

Born April 16, 1956, in Arlington, Virginia, Brown was unmarried.

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Kalpana Chawla, an aerospace engineer and commercial pilot, was on her second space shuttle flight, having been a mission specialist in 1996, logging more than 376 hours in space.

Born in Karnal, India, she studied in the United States, and received her doctorate from the University of Colorado.

She started working for NASA in 1988, studying powered-lift computational fluid dynamics. Her research concentrated on simulation of complex air flows encountered around aircraft.

Chawla joined the astronaut program in 1994.

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46 posted on 02/01/2003 2:58 PM EST by TLBSHOW

[MonroeDNA]

Welcome, member of 21 days.

Nice try on the Fox bashing. Perhaps you should tune out of here, too?

[KneelBeforeZod]

come on shep. first the j-lo blow job comment, now this?

[antaresequity]

Shep apologized for the statement

Shep is a showman...a good anchor...and a class act as far as I am concerned. Enormous talent...and human to boot.

[TLBSHOW]

I had just arrived at my sister-in-laws and turned her TV from CNN to fox and that was what I caught first.

[A Citizen Reporter]

Allow me, he was at his neighbor's house.

[dead]

I heard the original comment, and thought "that was unnecessary at this time" when he said it.

Glad to hear that he acknowledged the inappropriate nature of the comment.

[Alberta's Child]

I agree that the comment about the Indian woman may have seemed "inappropriate," but when you're dealing with a disaster like this, a crew member's difficulties on a previous mission is hardly irrelevant.

[TLBSHOW]

I see the nasa link at the bottom of the ap/bio page goes nowhere.

but to here

(The page cannot be found)

[Paleo Conservative]

Shephard Smith said he read the AP copy as it came off the wire unaltered, not knowing in advance what was on it, and he apologized for having read it.

How does this differ from his normal delivery of news. He doesn't seem to engage his brain very much when he is on the air.

[pbear8]

God Speed as Angles

Pssst...Angels...

[Howlin]

How convenient. Always.

[hotpotato]

I see your new here at FR. Fox is the good guys.

Actually, I'm not new here. And I've been watching FOX since the 2000 elections. My favorite shows are "Special Report" with both Brit Hume and the occasional Tony Snow anchoring, "Beltway Boys" "NewsWatch" (I really like Fred Barnes), Cavuto and Greta. I can only take O'Reilly in small portions. I've watched Shepard Smith on numerous occasions and think he's OK (I've never been able to figure out what the "G" stands for in "G Block," however).

I didn't start this thread to nail Fox, you may have another agenda

You started a thread asking if anyone heard what FOX TV reported. Since you didn't provide details and before saying anything about it, I checked with you to see if it wasn't what I had heard (post 2). It was and others have posted that they found it tasteless. Your word was "smeared," mine was not. Like others here, I also found it tasteless and called it a slip-up and a faux pas (not a smear). You asked for input and now you are accusing me of an agenda. I suspect that most of the live anchors today were reading from the same report and I haven't seen anyone else make the same mistake. But then again, maybe they have. I also think wanting to nail the AP writer for Shepard Smith's live delivery on public TV is misguided. Imho.

[TLBSHOW]

I did find this at the German site.

Government
Press release Nr.50
Telegram of condolence of Federal Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder at the American president George W. Bush for the crash of the space shuttle Columbia

SA, 01.02.2003


Dear Mr. Praesident,

with frightening I experienced from the terrible misfortune, with which today all seven astronauts of the space shuttle Columbia died. Again your country had to experience painfully that the study of space can be connected with human victims.

I would like to express you and the American people my low-felt condolence and ask you to convey to the families and members of the courageous men and women killed with the crash my sincere sympathy.

Gerhard Schroeder
Federal Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany

[dead]

when you're dealing with a disaster like this, a crew member's difficulties on a previous mission is hardly irrelevant.

Eventually, it might be relevant, but not on this day.

Besides, she wasn't the pilot. At this point in the mission, she was basically a passenger.

(from what I understand, they all were. At that point, the computer was flying.)

[Howlin]

Exactly.

[arjay]

Peter Jennings is a liberal idiot. I would NEVER listen to him doing the news.

[hotpotato]

Jennings is numero uno in my book and yours too I suspect...

Actually, he used to be. I left regular viewing of ABC during the election of 2000. My favorite anchor now is Jerry Nachman on MSNBC. He's on leave, though, due to cancer treatment :-( I really miss him. I try and watch as many different stations as possible but probably spend more time on FOX news. Today, however, I did switch back to Jennings (as well as ABC (got tired of Rathers pretty early on), CNN and MSNBC which is on right now). I'm also a big C-SPAN fan because it's the place to go for the uncut version.

[twyn1]

(I've never been able to figure out what the "G" stands for in "G Block," however)

7th segment in the broadcast -- they are labeled alphabetically -- A-B-C-D-E-F-G

[justshe]

Link to source, please.