December 15, 2011

The Washington Post
Fox News has fulfilled The Rule of Three with a recent string of errors in on-screen infographics. Erik Wemple summarizes: Mislabeling states on maps, inaccurately charting unemployment trends and on Wednesday running President Obama’s picture in place of Mitt Romney’s in a GOP candidates lineup. So much, Wemple writes, for “Fox News chief Roger Ailes’s statement that his people simply do ‘better graphics‘ than everyone else.” || Related: MSNBC apologizes for tying Romney’s “Keep America American” slogan to the KKK (Daily News)

That’s not Mitt Romney.
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