FOX News: Endangering Americans to protect America

FOX, the Boston Quackie of journalism

Well, no matter what journalistic silliness CNN is guilty of, at least it never put an innocent family in harm’s way.Too bad the rabid and irresponsible FOX News can’t say the same. Kevin Drum relates an astonishing story:

Just when you thought cable news couldn’t sink any lower, cable news sinks lower. Two weeks ago, Fox News wrongly identified the house of Randy and Ronnell Vorick as a terrorist lair:

In what Fox News officials concede was a mistake, John Loftus, a former U.S. prosecutor, gave out the address Aug. 7, saying it was the home of a Middle Eastern man, Iyad K. Hilal, who was the leader of a terrorist group with ties to those responsible for the July 7 bombings in London.

Hilal, whom Loftus identified by name during the broadcast, moved out of the house about three years ago. But the consequences were immediate for the Voricks.

Italics mine. He gave out the address! On national TV! That’s practically an invitation for local thugs to firebomb the house.

Read more for Loftus’ appalling rationalization.

Like the Daffy Duck “Boston Quackie” character, FOX is friend to those who need no friends, enemy to those who have no enemies.

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