Slimy Baltimore FOX Affiliate Caught Faking "Kill a Cop" Protest Chant

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

Last edited Mon Dec 22, 2014, 07:26 PM - Edit history (1)

Source: Gawker

Last night, Baltimore's WBFF aired a video of protesters chanting "kill a cop"– evidence, it claimed, of murderously violent rhetoric on the part of anti-brutality protesters in Washington, D.C. The only problem? The protesters weren't chanting "kill a cop" at all, and there's video evidence to prove it.

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We can't stop!

We won't stop!

'til killer cops are in cell blocks!

Not a particularly provocative chant, all things considered: protesters are announcing their intention to continue organizing until murderous police officers are put in jail. Fair enough!

That is, until Baltimore's local FOX affiliate got their hands on this video. Here's their interpretation of it:

We can't stop!

We won't stop!

So kill a cop!

The station's FB page:
https://www.facebook.com/FOXBaltimore

Read more: http://gawker.com/slimy-baltimore-fox-affiliate-caught-faking-kill-a-cop-1674040381

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WBFF is the flagship station of the rightwing Sinclair Broadcast Group. I figure they're the real culprits here, rather than FOX, as networks have little to no input into local affiliate newscasts.

Sinclair, who owns the station, has a long history of inserting political propaganda into its "news" operations, and then forcing outlets in its nationwide chain to carry it. (I once worked for a station that was bought out and ruined by SBG, and can tell you stories about their rightwing advocacy and forcing content into affilaite shows)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinclair_Broadcast_Group#Political_programming

The critics are getting this one a bit wrong and letting SBG off the hook.

Sinclair's take:

The real chant:

FB post from the woman they smeared:

[Chakaconcarne]

1. I'm pretty sure I saw this aired on O'reilly....

Unfortunately fox is sometimes up at my gym, so I couldn't help it.

Slime balls.

[Scuba]

5. I saw it right here on DU!!

[lunasun]

23. me too !

[Elmer S. E. Dump]

6. And it will never, ever, be corrected, or explained.

I swear that I don't understand how Fox News (network or affiliates) are allowed to use "News" in their names. Apparently you can willingly lie with abandon, ignore major stories altogether, and put thousands of people on the edge of stochastic terrorism and still be a legitimate "news" station.

[DFW]

22. If the truth in advertising laws were enforced,

Fox would not be allowed to call themselves "news." They even went to court to protect their right to lie on the air, and they won the case by contending they could say whatever they wanted to under the First Amendment (free speech).

[bigworld]

2. Sinclair has a record of doing stuff like this

Let them know how you feel..... http://www.sbgi.net/

[Enrique]

3. Breitbart lives! n/t

the blatant edit also reminds me of this story from Chicago local news

(the part in bold was cut out of the newscast)

http://www.poynter.org/news/mediawire/141052/chicago-tv-station-admits-mistakes-in-airing-misleading-interview-with-4-year-old-boy/

Photographer: “Boy, you ain’t scared of nothing! Damn! When you get older are you going to stay away from all these guns?”
Boy: “No.”
Photographer: “No? What are you going to do when you get older?”
Boy: “I’m going to have me a gun!”
Photographer: “You are! Why do you want to do that?”
Boy: “I’m going to be the police!”
Photographer: “OK, then you can have one.”

[arcane1]

26. That's EXACTLY what I thought of when I saw this. It opens eyes!

I'm glad the channel had to publicly retract itself, and have the chanter on their show.. Even if they play dumb, some of their veiwers will become aware of how easy it is to invent a narrative with selective editing.

[randr]

4. I can not for the life of me stop thinking that these asswipes

should not be permitted to broadcast in our Nation.
Such a stunt should result in the loss of license.

[Elmer S. E. Dump]

7. Ditto!

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

9. Where are the FCC fines when they're really needed?

instead, they're more concerned about Janet Jackson's tit

[TexasMommaWithAHat]

12. This!

Fines. Huge fines...and firings.

[Enthusiast]

32. +1 an entire shit load.

[Fred Sanders]

36. Where is the media? Who will cover media manipulation, not the fucking media. Conflict of interest.

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

8. and the lady in the video who is deliberately misquoted should sue their asses off

Here's the station's FB page:
https://www.facebook.com/FOXBaltimore

Note the screaming banner

[FiveGoodMen]

10. If lying on the news were a felony -- which it certainly should be

then we wouldn't be hearing from Fox at all by now.

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

11. Update from the station

Last night on Fox45 News at Ten we aired a story regarding the increased risk in being a police officer in light of recent grand jury rulings and the shooting deaths of two police officers in New York City. We aired part of a protest covered by CSPAN that appeared to have protesters chanting “kill a cop”. We spoke to the person in the video today and she told us that is not what she was chanting. Indeed, Tawanda Jones, says she was chanting, “We won’t stop ‘til killer cops are in cell blocks”. We invited Tawanda to appear on Fox45 News at 5:00 and Fox45 News at Ten tonight for an interview so we can discuss the video and the recent violence in New York City. She has kindly accepted and we will bring you that tonight.

Jones should still sue them for defamation.

[Fred Sanders]

13. Someone should tell fucking CNN, Blitzer is still running with this as true to incite....

[mimi85]

18. Wolf needs to retire....now!

[Fred Sanders]

19. Slimy CNN, they have no shame and Blitzer is the most shameless of all.

Wolf is still running with the lie, unbelievable ..this is also deliberate.

What a fearmonger he has become....one trick pony.

[Dont call me Shirley]

29. CrapNotNews

[underpants]

34. I've been ignoring the news for the last few days

Well sort of. You are right this chant lie is considered the truth

[Enrique]

14. "she told us that is not what she was chanting"

no, they already knew what she was chanting. The video is cut at exactly the part where it would have been known what she was chanting. It was a deliberate edit.

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

15. If it was a mistake, there are so many levels it could have been caught at

Speaking from experience in TV, I can tell you this would have gone through a reporter, a video editor and a closed caption transcriber before it saw air.

This was deliberate.

[riversedge]

16. good to see the protester will publicly correct fox news

[bigworld]

17. Just to correct, it's not Fox News

It's a local Fox affiliate.

[Fred Sanders]

20. A Fox News affiliate, there is a distinction? Look up who owns it....worse than the parent.

[DRoseDARs]

24. It would be hilarious if she showed up, and right after they ask the first question

she hands them a summons to court because she's suing them.

[Ryan Fitzomething]

21. Was James O'Keefe Somehow Involved in This Fraud?

That little twerp is a disgrace to us Irish!

[Enthusiast]

31. +1

[byronius]

25. Well, that's quite Evil.

Seems actionable to me. Should be actionable.

That's fraud. Conspiracy to commit fraud. Defaming someone by manufacturing evidence.

[leanforward]

27. This is why I gave up of Faux sometime back

Other than some football, I can't think of when I've watched a faux network program. How can people continue to trust spin doctors? How can we reduce the faux network viewers. Fewer viewers equals less advertising revenue. This fabrication solidifies my opinion of the fox network. Is my opinion based on anecdotal information as it dovetails with the national programs, wrong?

[PatrynXX]

28. hence the song Copkiller

which had nothing to do with good cops but cops that kill. Not that Bodycount wanted to see cops killed

[Enthusiast]

30. Fuck Fox "News". They have been fanning the flames of racism for years.

[Fred Sanders]

35. "Fuck Fox News" would make for an excellent protest sign.

[ecstatic]

33. and now it's time to debunk the other video

that edits in protesters yelling, "What do we want? Dead cops!" In this age of Photoshop and Audacity, it's amazing that none of the local stations or cable news networks bother to verify these clips before running them.

[Fred Sanders]

37. Blitzer is running with that now on CNN. Having run with last night's lie,without apology.