Thread: Fox Sports creates "misleading" headlines

Originally Posted by Jimmors

apologizing on the same media, same channel and the same program you made your error to begin with on? Thats crazytalk. Stop it.

He kind of muttered and said well Troy, Joe, and Pam, doing the Bears/Packers game this week so it's not the same team that made the error so it wouldn't make as much sense to have them issue the blah blah blah........

Sure we'll see more Cutler isolation shots.

Originally Posted by Bear Goggles

Fox guy was just on the Score talking about this and saying he thinks apology given to papers and on the Score and doesn't think one will be issued on Fox coverage of games.

Of course not. Never admit you're wrong where people would actually notice it! Just like the newspaper printing a retraction of an erroneous headline on page 23, in the first column, bottom of the page where statistically the fewest readers would find it. Fox is a trashy station with basically trashy programming. All I ever watch on FOX is football.

Originally Posted by Bear Goggles

He kind of muttered and said well Troy, Joe, and Pam, doing the Bears/Packers game this week so it's not the same team that made the error so it wouldn't make as much sense to have them issue the blah blah blah........

Sure we'll see more Cutler isolation shots.

Great, now I know for sure I'll have the sound off. These guys wouldn't get off the Bears case all game last week. I respect Aikman's knowledge of the game but when he's teamed with Buck you know it's gonna be a "let's trash the Bears" extravaganza.

More or less whenever the Packers are playing those two will be kissing Rodgers' ass so much throughout the game, it's hard to understand them.

Fox apologizes on air for fake Cutler headlines

Fox Sports issued an on-air apology Sunday for using fabricated newspaper headlines critical of quarterback Jay Cutler on its season-opening Chicago Bears broadcast.

As a Tribune report detailed last Sunday, the Fox telecast flashed three ficticious headlines across the screen -- "Cutler Leaves With Injury," "Cutler Lacks Courage" and "Cutler's No Leader" -- that Fox color analyst Daryl Johnston described as "actual headlines from the local papers in Chicago." A Tribune search yielded no such headlines in any newspaper in the United States.

Fox studio analyst Curt Menefee apologized during Fox's NFL Sunday pregame show.

"Before we move on, I want to go back to Week 1, during the Atlanta-Chicago broadcast, when our production crew that was doing that game displayed an incorrect graphic," Menefee said. "Now, the production team told our announcer Daryl Johnston that a taped video package that made air came from actual headlines concerning Bears quarterback Jay Cutler's performance during last year's NFC Championship Game. While in fact, they were not. FOX Sports regrets this mistake and apologizes to Cutler, the Chicago Bears organization and everyone involved"