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rmric0.wedding.photographer.and.manny
11/23/09

In reply to Fox News to Go 'Error-Free' In 2010
It's these damned Internets, if only people couldn't just hop onto Google and check facts then Fox wouldn't have this problem.

Which is why Rupert wants to hide his newspaper content, he's preparing to take his errors to print!
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MisterHippity
11/23/09

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See, here's the thing about mistakes: People don't make them intentionally. That's why they're called "mistakes."

So threatening to fire people is not an effective mistake-prevention strategy. People will avoid engaging in intentional behavior that would cause them to be fired, of course (assuming they want to keep their jobs).

But people won't go, "Hey, I was planning to fuck up royally today, but now that I know that I may get fired for that, I've decided to take a different, not-fucking-up approach instead." It doesn't work that way.

What the "make mistakes and you're fired" threat WILL do is totally stress people the fuck out, and stressed-out people are probably likely to make more mistakes. So expect more mistakes on FNC in the near future.
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Go Like Hell Machine
11/23/09

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@wadeanderson: I'm not going to reply to your entire, long comment, because I don't feel like getting in a boring argument.

I'm only going to excerpt this part: "You can make fun of me, and I will be reassured that all of you are cynics and hopeless." and laugh, and laugh, because... well, for obvious reasons.
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Edited by Go Like Hell Machine at 11/23/09 6:11 PM

Atilla the Bun
11/23/09

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But the actual quality control memo doesn't say it will fire people who screw up. It says there will be a "zero-tolerance" policy but then says the discipline for the errant worker can be whatever FNC wants it to be, including just a letter to a personnel file. Big whoop.

The whole memo is ultimately all bark and no bite.
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Mediahohoho
11/23/09

@Atilla the Bun: Isn't a "letter in the file" what that ragey writer got for throwing on-set tantrums and whatnot?
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Atilla the Bun
11/23/09

@Mediahohoho: You just described most of the talking heads on FN.
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MisterHippity
11/23/09

@Atilla the Bun: "... up to and including termination."

" Please know that jobs are on the line here."

The messages seems clear enough to me.
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Atilla the Bun
11/24/09

@MisterHippity: It's a typical lawyer move of sounding threatening without ultimately being obligated to do anything. Trust--if they really intended to implement a policy of firing people that made the mistakes, they would have said that. And they didn't. "Up to and including termination" means "we can do anything and are required to do nothing." If I as a lawyer was put to task with drafting a "quality control" policy that gave the boss lee-way to do anything they wanted in response to an error--including nothing--this is exactly how I would word it.

And even dumber, they can already fire anybody they want to without cause except in the rare cases of employees that have for-cause employment contracts (and I guarantee you the people in the editing rooms don't have such contracts). So the memo does nothing but re-state the status quo in language that sounds intimidating but means nothing. Kind of like Fox News itself.
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Mediahohoho
11/23/09

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But when your sole reason for existence is to act as the propaganda arm for the conservative movement, can you ever actually be wrong?
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minge
11/23/09

@Mediahohoho: I think you meant "right". And no, you can't.
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Mediahohoho
11/23/09

@minge: Conservatives have never been wrong about anything ever in the history of everything...in their own minds. Which is exactly what makes them so dangerous.
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daveyjonesisdead
11/23/09

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Can Gawker start a count-up clock, like those "Injury-Free for x Hours" clocks at factories? Let's see if then can make it a week.
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DennyCrane
11/23/09

@daveyjonesisdead: I second this one. Put it below the e-mail newsletter subscription box.
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BrutallyHonestBabes (aka Mrs. Sarah.of.a.Lesser.Hobbit)
11/23/09

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But what about the on-purpose "mistakes" like "Foley, D" above? Oh, I know, They'll just stop covering that stuff alltogether to fair and balance it out.
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AzureTexan
11/23/09

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Also, too: "It is more important to get it right, than it is to get it on."

If I remember the Falafel Chronicles correctly, that's not what Bill O'Reilly thinks.
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mimigoliath
11/23/09

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The author of this memo knows where he/she works, don't they? Because I think this is setting the standard waaaaay higher than they're used to.
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Tremonius
11/23/09

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Ah, the old bait-and-switch; who goes to work at Faux Noise expecting "accuracy" to play any part? It's like accepting a job as a secretary and finding out you're also responsible for the bathroom plumbing.
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AzureTexan
11/23/09

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A "mistake chain" is to Fox News what a polymer chain is to PVC — an inextricable component in its material constitution. To eliminate the chain is to eliminate the product.
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naugahydeinplainsight
11/23/09

@AzureTexan: Or what a daisy chain is to an orgy, since if they're going to start firing people for this sort of thing, then they're all f*cked.
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AzureTexan
11/23/09

@naugahydeinplainsight: ...the naked truth.
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naugahydeinplainsight
11/23/09

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They showed Going Rouge not once but twice in the same segment (before finally correcting the error on screen)! Is no one watching their daytime shows?
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Mrs. Beeton
11/23/09

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Those "recent months" are in the past two weeks, right? What else have we missed? Are there racial slurs slipped into the crawl that no one reads? America must know!
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Richard Lawson
11/23/09

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John, that (D-FL) actually isn't a mistake.

It's short for (Dickin'-Fo' Life).
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notsofresh
11/23/09

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Being mistake-free is such serious business at FNC, they "can not" stress it enough.
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naugahydeinplainsight
11/23/09

@notsofresh: But wait, there's more:
". . . and we never having to explain, retract, qualify or apologize again. " Or proofread, apparently
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