Greta Van Susteren Calls on Fox News to ‘Saturate Social Media’ With Correction on CNN Scripted Question Story
by Lawrence Bonk | 8:09 am, February 28th, 2018
Greta Van Susteren is mad as heck and she is not going to take it anymore. She recently put her former employer, Fox News, on blast for a series of segments they aired last week touting claims from Parkland shooting survivor Colton Haab that CNN tried to feed himscripted questions for their town hall debate on gun control.
That is, until the boy’s father reportedly admitted he doctored an email from CNN, admitting that there isn’t really any evidence to back up the claim.
After covering the story extensively last week, Fox News hosts Tucker Carlson and Sean Hannity both informed their viewers last night of the new development — but the damage may have already been done. Alas, as is often the case with Fox News segments, these particular ones elicited a tweet from President Donald Trump bashing CNN over the false accusation, a tweet which has approximately 0% chance of getting retracted.
Well, those Fox News hosts’ former colleague Van Susteren said two paltry correction-issuing segments simply is not enough to undo the damage done by lobbing false claims at rival network CNN.
She wants the network to blanket social media with corrections, so as to catch a wide swath of their viewers who now believe CNN acted in bad faith with their town hall gun control debate.
Van Susteren took to Twitter to issue her plea, using a Mediaite article on the coverage as a starting point.
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https://twitter.com/greta/status/968808785614647296
Greta Van Susteren
✔@greta
Below shows the problem w/ not waiting for the facts and just ‘running with it.’ How many people heard the initial (false) accusation but will not learn of the correction? To be fair, Fox needs to saturate social media w/ this correction so that the falsehood gets corrected.
6:23 AM - Feb 28, 2018
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“Below shows the problem with not waiting for the facts and just ‘running with it.’ How many people heard the initial (false) accusation but will not learn of the correction?” she wrote.
“To be fair, Fox needs to saturate social media with this correction so that the falsehood gets corrected.”
In the meantime, we’ll keep an eye on social media to see if an adequate level of saturation is reached throughout the day. Heck, maybe we can get more television corrections as well. Nothing yet from Fox & Friends…
by Lawrence Bonk | 8:09 am, February 28th, 2018
Greta Van Susteren is mad as heck and she is not going to take it anymore. She recently put her former employer, Fox News, on blast for a series of segments they aired last week touting claims from Parkland shooting survivor Colton Haab that CNN tried to feed himscripted questions for their town hall debate on gun control.
That is, until the boy’s father reportedly admitted he doctored an email from CNN, admitting that there isn’t really any evidence to back up the claim.
After covering the story extensively last week, Fox News hosts Tucker Carlson and Sean Hannity both informed their viewers last night of the new development — but the damage may have already been done. Alas, as is often the case with Fox News segments, these particular ones elicited a tweet from President Donald Trump bashing CNN over the false accusation, a tweet which has approximately 0% chance of getting retracted.
Well, those Fox News hosts’ former colleague Van Susteren said two paltry correction-issuing segments simply is not enough to undo the damage done by lobbing false claims at rival network CNN.
She wants the network to blanket social media with corrections, so as to catch a wide swath of their viewers who now believe CNN acted in bad faith with their town hall gun control debate.
Van Susteren took to Twitter to issue her plea, using a Mediaite article on the coverage as a starting point.
View image on Twitter
https://twitter.com/greta/status/968808785614647296
Greta Van Susteren✔@greta
Below shows the problem w/ not waiting for the facts and just ‘running with it.’ How many people heard the initial (false) accusation but will not learn of the correction? To be fair, Fox needs to saturate social media w/ this correction so that the falsehood gets corrected.
6:23 AM - Feb 28, 2018
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“Below shows the problem with not waiting for the facts and just ‘running with it.’ How many people heard the initial (false) accusation but will not learn of the correction?” she wrote.
“To be fair, Fox needs to saturate social media with this correction so that the falsehood gets corrected.”
In the meantime, we’ll keep an eye on social media to see if an adequate level of saturation is reached throughout the day. Heck, maybe we can get more television corrections as well. Nothing yet from Fox & Friends…
