Is Chris White now a producer without a network? CNN isn’t hiring him and Fox News isn’t talking, a day after a scathing Fox & Friends video segment on President Obama ran that White, an associate producer at the network, put together. A source told Deadline that CNN, who had already been talking to the producer, contacted White after the video aired and offered to double his Fox News salary. CNN would not confirm whether or not they had offered White a job, and today a network spokesperson said it isn’t hiring him. Fox News was quick to distance itself for the widely criticized video, despite Fox & Friends co-host Steve Doocy’s on-air “hats off to Chris White” for producing the heavily annotated segment (see the video below). The network released a statement saying the segment “was not authorized at the senior executive level of the network” and “this has been addressed with the show’s producers.” It is unknown whether White is actually still working at FNC. A Fox News spokesperson did not return Deadline’s requests for comment.
Is Fox News Producer Who Made Scathing Obama Video Out Of A Job?
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For a piece like this to air TWICE, everyone knows this came from the higher ups.
Even as an Obama supporter…the eagle with the “wtf??” look at :53 is hysterical, I have to admit.
CNN offered to double his salary? They deserve their crummy ratings. Fox is propaganda, nothing surprises, but it sounds like CNN is no better.
So now it’s propaganda to use facts? Do you dispute the veracity of the numbers?
It’s one thing to say the debt has grown, totally another to omit the fact most of that debt has come from two unpaid for wars, Medicare Part D and the Bush tax cuts (all policies enacted under the previous administration).
I think it’s funny that liberals call Fox News propaganda and conservatives say the same thing about the rest of the mainstream media. It’s time for everyone to wake up and realize that MSNBC and CNN are just as bad as Fox. They both produce bullshit propaganda, they’re just preaching different view points. I find it hilarious watching you all bicker back and forth while thinking that your preferred network is reporting “balanced” news. Oh and for what it’s worth, it’s ignorant to think that a president is single handedly responsible for our nation’s problems. Obama didn’t create the deficit. Nor did Bush. Obama is ignorant as well, however, for thinking that he could really cut the deficit by being president for a term. Overall though, people just need to realize lying and manipulating information is in the job description for newscasters as much as it is for politicians. It’s the sad world we live in.
Oh come on, now. If MSNBC ran a 4-minute montage of all the decision-making, facts and numbers that went into Obama’s successful strike against Osama Bin Laden with rousing music and flag waving and eagles, you’d be screaming like a banshee about unfair reporting and we’d have to listen to all you conservative cry-babies until we disavow it so we can move on to debating actual issues. If you can’t admit this is propoganda and tell the difference between this and real news, your teachers have seriously failed you.
They do that every day on the Networks, while reading WH talking points on the morning shows.
True and factual video. The only people who would oppose this video are ones who think it is unfair to expose Democrats for their lies and broken campaign promises.
What exactly are people getting so excited about? If the statistics are correct, the video is standard political reporting. If they are erroneous, let the critics show where. Obviously, the interpretation of who’s to blame for the current situation will be different depending on your politics. Is Obama to blame or are the Republicans to blame for the mess they dumped on him? Then talk about that. But pretending this video is itself the problem is ridiculous. (And I am someone who abominates Fox News and was a huge critic of the second Bush.)
Dude, that is not standard political reporting. You don’t edit and air a video that is so anti-Obama it would make the RNC blush crimson. Maybe from a shameless super-pac, but not anyone purporting to be a news network.
Even Fox was embarrassed. Fox! Like a wind storm that ripped the wig off their head.
@Canadaguy (and all the others expression surprise that anyone could find this anything other than “standard” reporting): First: “Then” and “Now” are awfully ill defined time references. I haven’t fact checked, but I’m fairly certain many of those statistics were not from immediately prior to Obama taking office.
More crucially: “standard” reporting offers just the interpretation you suggest “(depends) on your politics.” No, actually, it doesn’t. Or, it shouldn’t. It depends on an intelligent, non-partisan analysis of ALL the facts at hand – something too many in our society now seem pathologically incapable of. And that absence is exactly what makes this film propaganda.
prop·a·gan·da/?präp??gand?/Noun:Information, esp. of a biased or misleading nature, used to promote or publicize a particular political cause or point of view. The dissemination of such information as a political strategy.
Get it? When you “report” a bunch of numbers, but leave out the actual causes of many of the statistical spikes, that makes it “biased,” “misleading,” and intended to “promote or publicize a particular political cause or point of view.”
Not that I expect anyone who still thinks Republican guidance of this country is a good idea to have any interest in fairness, open mindedness, or preservation of our culture or planet.
I can’t agree with you more: If the statistics are correct, the video is standard political reporting. If they are erroneous, let the critics show where.
There’s too much complaining about form over substance. Let’s deal with the facts!
Fox News no longer cares about news. Now it’s just about drumming up fear in order to get better ratings.
Are you implying that every other major media outlet DOESN’T do the same exact thing? Anyone who claims a network to be impartial is blind or a comedian.
He should be out of a job because he made a video that showed factual information? That dared show Obama only made things worse. A video that dared take a critical eye to our dear leader.
Oh the horror
Here! Here! The wool is being removed and exposing the fraud
Except that it omits critical facts in understanding the data, while also completely leaving out any tidbits of positive information (20+ months of straight job growth, a stock market that was around 8,000 when he took office and is now over 12,000, etc). Sure the debt exploded – however it did so almost entirely based on the previous administrations policies (Medicare Part D, two wars and the Bush tax cuts). The stimulus and Obamacare make up only a sliver of the debt.
Critical facts, data, analysis: Republicans = holy water, sunlight: Vampries.
The point is that candidate Obama pledged to reduce the deficit by half by the end of his first term — it’s right there in the video. He knew what he was getting into but he made the promise anyway.
Thank you. Do you think you changed anyone’s mind? No. The people who drool with delight over this kind of thing don’t care a whit about accuracy, balance, or truth. They care about winning, keeping more for themselves (and those who look and feel like them), and subjugating anyone with different accents, genitals, and sexual proclivities than theirs.
Well said, Sally.
Haha, I love how the car at 2:50 in is somehow broken down even though it has nothing to do with the point being made. Is this video for real or an internet parody of what Republicans think of Obama?
Of course he should be fired, as should the person who approved the airing of this smear campaign….
The Koch Brothers will hire him
Am I only one that felt like that was the first five minutes of an end of the world tentpole?
It’s not too late for MGM to add this as a preface to the upcoming RED DAWN reboot.
Fired?! He should get a raise and promotion!
They would, but they cant afford to give him one because the bankers stole all your money and blamed Obama.
zing!
I’m sorry but the quality of this video was borderline amateurish compared to actual well-produced news pieces. How can anyone with half a brain take this seriously? If he was potentially “poached”, it could have only been because he was publicly patted on the back by his peers on-air.
“How can anyone with half a brain take this seriously?”
Fox viewers took it seriously. What does that tell you?
How the video was presented may be questionable however the numbers don’t lie. Obama is a failure. If pointing that out makes you biased something is wrong with your definition of biased. Just because CNN and MSNBC won’t show the truth doesn’t mean Fox are the bad guys.
The phrase “Numbers don’t lie” is a false statement in itself. The numbers themselves are truthful (5 is 5 is 5), but when only half the numbers are shown, and are given no objective context, the truth is removed from the numbers. This video has nothing to do with truth, and all about cherrypicking numbers and rhetoric to make a point.
Funny video, so breathlessly histrionic. Loved the apocalyptic music. It would be funnier if 49% of America didn’t take it as gospel.
Let me make sure I’m understanding this correctly.
In 1954, Edward R. Murrow & Fred Friendly gather film clips of a politician, write a script, and expose a politician for what he is through a television news broadcast.
In 2012, an assistant producer for Fox News does pretty much the same thing, but with less script, whizzy graphics and apocalyptic music. Am I the only one not seeing a great deal of difference here? I admit — it does make the old CBS News dictum of “no music in news broadcasts” look rather prescient.
Having said that, it certainly does look more like a campaign video than straight news. But I still have to wonder — if the guy had not used whizzy graphics and music in this piece, would this much fuss exist?
Except he did use apocalyptic music and graphics and obviously biased edits and juxtapositions. Even its premise, change versus what has been delivered, is slanted. Come on.
Sound the alarm!
The price of bread went up from $1.97 to $2.05…over 4 years!
OMG!
And didnt you see the piggie bank rolling down the steps! No piggie…noooooo
“And didnt you see the piggie bank rolling down the steps! No piggie…noooooo”
I thought that was Roger Ailes.
Let me just interject a second here to address the Fox apologists: I’m a liberal who hopes Obama gets re-elected. And this sort of a stunt actually helps Obama (my liberal friends may disagree but these sorts of controversies sway more people our way than yours.) However, although it helps Obama in the end it still poisons the conversation by increasing acrimony between the two parties. And I really wish we could find common ground because that’s what is best for the country right now. We need statesmen, not politicians. I can respect that you folks have an ideological difference on the proper way to solve various problems but too often the past few years, we end up debating the validity of baseline facts because of this kind of rabble-rousing. How can we solve problems if we can’t even agree what the problems really are? This kind of stuff grinds the country to a halt. This isn’t news, it’s opinion that clouds the issues to the point nothing gets done.
Ben, I’m a liberal who agrees with you 100%
And there ARE Republicans who agree with you.
The sad fact though is that Republican leadership, has been hijacked by the noisemakers who shout the loudest. There’s no room for moderates anymore — ask Richard Lugar if you don’t believe me.
Today’s GOP isn’t interested in deals, compromises or making government work, they’re only interested in total and complete control and enrichment of the upper-class.
The new GOP slogan: I’ts Our Way or it’s Our Way.
Here! Here!
Sounds like Fox is scared that the News Corp hacking scandal investigation is picking up steam here in the U.S. Let’s hope the Justice Dept. is on it, because there may never be another opportunity like this to take down Murdoch and his rightwing propaganda machine.
Someone needs to tell Mr. White that the proper way to do it is go to his computer, open up Word, type an anti-Bush memo and date it 1971, run it through a copier a few times, and claim that it is a newly-discovered memo. When you get caught, don’t worry, the New York Times will run the headline “fake but accurate” and get on with reporting the anti-Bush angle.
Don’t see the problem here. Video looks good and facts are pretty accurate. Dude said he would cut the deficit in half and he did the complete opposite. Time for a new president.
Oh, and the eagle at :53 is pretty dam funny.
I’m not a fan of President Obama and I like Fox News. Having said that, I think that the video segment was essentially a campaign ad for the GOP and didn’t meet the editorial standards of a network that claims to be “Fair and Balanced”.
I’m not saying that the segment didn’t make valid points (in my opinion), just that it was clearly one-sided in its presentation.
Why would someone get fired over the content of that video? The graphics, maybe, but there wasn’t anything wrong with it on FOX.
Funny how people are quick to bash the video, but nobody tries to assert it makes false claims.
While the tone of the video is unacceptable for a news network, I see no problem with how it depicts Obama as a failure of a president. That’s a fact that can’t be disputed.
You haven’t been reading this thread, have you?
Let me put it in terms you might understand: what if I assembled a video of all of the low points of Reagan’s presidency- something that depicted his term as nothing but a series of broken promises, union-busting, war-mongering, and scandals, scandals, scandals. (And it would be pretty easy to do- there’s a TON of material to draw on).
You’d be hollering about what a “hatchet job” it was, wouldn’t you?
It’s not a fact. It’s your dumb wingnut opinion, that’s all. The idea that Obama’s a failure is nothing but nonsense drummed up by the right-wing noise machine, and you’ve happily imbibed all of it. And what Fox News aired is nothing less than a campaign attack ad, further proving the fact that Fox News is not a news organization of any kind, instead being a pure propaganda organ of the right wing in this country.
and why didn’t anyone do this with Bush ? It would have made a more interesting video for sure
I love how the GOPites toss out Romney’s idiocy “A failed president”. If you want to talk facts, talk facts. DOW is up. Jobs are being created. Obama has done th ebest job possible recovering from an absolutely disasterous 8 years under dubya. Does anyone call Dubya a failed president? No, because they haven’t been told to do so by the RNC.
Please, in detail, explain how Obama is a failed president, and pleae take into account the absolutely disasterous financial and political situation he was handed, and also make sure you document how he could have done better with blithering idiots like Grover Norquist and the tea partiers doing everything in their power to undermine any possible good he could have done, and additionally destroying any possible cohesion and structure in Congress?
When you can write that paper, and publish it, and let it get peer reviewed, then i may listen to your rantings. But spouting out romney’s campaign slogans (or at least what they are this week, they’ll surely change next week) just makes you look like a fool.
It doesn’t make FALSE claims, it makes wildly deceptive ones. As for no one complaining about it, well, it’s what we expect from Faux News. The fact that they relentlessly push a conservative agenda at the expense of honest reporting is now so well known that it is accepted as a given fact.
We don’t HAVE to say it’s deceptive or deliberately misrepresenting reality any more – it is enough to say that it appeared on FOX.
As someone with no investment in either party (or interest, I’m not American), that video is one of the funniest things I’ve seen in a long, long time. Obama didn’t deliver the change he promised, that goes without saying. But how can the right say the current mess is HIS fault? Are you kidding me; it was a shitstorm 4 years ago and still is now – it’s also a global mess which 2 wars havent helped. Common sense, people.
Jerry Bruckheimer sure hire that producer. It’s so heavyhanded it’s almost satire
Oh boy what a fluff piece that was. Anyone with a brain can see that it’s nothing more than a GOP political ad.
This wasn’t a news piece at all, sure you can throw some so called facts in a video but when you ad random clips and apocalyptic music to it then it’s not news at all.
Where is the opposing view in this fluff piece? Where is their “Fair and Balanced” approach? Oh yeah, that flew out the window years ago and now Fox News is nothing more than a GOP puppet.
“Tanning Mom” is a political talking head?