Fox News screws up, mistakenly identifies family as terrorists

[FunkyHiFi]

"When Blame Knocks on the Wrong Door" (http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/la-me-lahabra25aug25,1,1159004.story?coll=chi-news-hed)

Snipped from the above article:

Their house, a suburban fixer-upper the Voricks bought three years ago, was wrongly identified in a cable news broadcast as the home of a terrorist.

"I'm scared to go to work and leave my kids home. I call them every 30 minutes to make sure they're OK," Randy Vorick said.

"I keep telling myself this can't be happening to me. This can't be happening to my family. But it is. I want our lives to be normal again," he said.

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.

This "news" organization is unbelievable, a total joke is all I can think of to say.

[DroppinScience]

Wait, where's the outrage from sisko? :rolleyes:

[D_Raay]

Possible this was actually a mistake, or maybe some quick, not thought out damage control for the emperor?

I'm always going for the least likely yet sensical answer ain't I?

[infidel]

Even if it was a mistake it doesn't seem right to me for the media to be giving out people's addresses.
There can be only one reason for this, to direct hate and violence towards a particular person.

[FunkyHiFi]

If I was the family...I would sue
Same here.

D_Raay: what do you mean exactly?

[D_Raay]

Same here.

D_Raay: what do you mean exactly?
What I meant was that every time they are feeling the heat (i.e. right now very low approval rating, Cindy Sheehan) several nonsensical or, quite frankly, bullshit stories such as the missing/dead who the hell cares girl in Aruba, suddenly pop up to take the media off what is actually important.

It is more difficult to actually have a legitimate terrorist story, case in point this thread, than to have some girl missing or some vegetable showing signs of life after 15 years with no cerebral cortex (impossible).

Just being my usual pessimistic self and going for the worst case scenario. I wonder how often I am right?

[Ali]

Even if it was a mistake it doesn't seem right to me for the media to be giving out people's addresses.
There can be only one reason for this, to direct hate and violence towards a particular person.or particular TYPE of person...

[FunkyHiFi]

It is more difficult to actually have a legitimate terrorist story, case in point this thread, than to have some girl missing or some vegetable showing signs of life after 15 years with no cerebral cortex (impossible).

O.K., I see what you mean now (and it makes sense too, unfortunately).