Faux News spokesman: "vile and untrue" that there was bias in show regarding NYT reporters

[sabra]

http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2008/07/when-fox-attack.html

After New York Times reporter Jacques Steinberg wrote a story about Fox News Channel that officials at the cable news network apparently did not like, Fox & Friends ran doctored, unflattering photos of the two men.

The altered photo of Steinberg in particular has struck some within the Times building as a tad anti-Semitic.

Times columnist David Carr today -- in a larger look at Fox News' dealings with the media -- compares the altered image to "vintage German propaganda, his ears were pulled out, his teeth splayed apart, his forehead lowered and his nose was widened and enlarged in a way that made him look more like Fagin than the guy I work with." And Times television columnist Bill Carter concurs.

Fox News spokesman Brian Lewis disputes the notion that there was any bias at play, calling it "vile and untrue."

[no_hypocrisy]

1. "We were just funnin' . . . geez, lighten up!"

It's only a joke when the "target" thinks it's funny too.

[Lex]

3. yep, that's always the refrain of racists, homophobes, and sexists

whenever they make a bigoted "joke." It's always the other party's fault for not lightening up. Or they're told they are "too PC."

It's happens on cue every time.

[Bluzmann57]

2. Yeah right

And the moon is made of green cheese too.

[lpbk2713]

4. Is that clown from Faux trying to do a Dana Perino impression?

:shrug:

[spanone]

5. vile and untrue....sounds like the new faux motto!

[Supersedeas]

6. another tactic from vintage German propoganda playbook...projecting much, are they?