Do you NEED another reason not to trust FOX News?

Part of the story before the results came in from New Hampshire was the apparent shake up that would take place within the Clinton campaign. Lots of reporters were talking about it ... including FOX News. FOX apparently had the "scoop" that James Carville and Paul Begala, architects of Bill Clinton's White House victories, were coming on board. Guess what ... it wasn't true.

Paul Begala had this to say on Huffington Post:

Fox’s Major Garrett — a good guy whom I’ve known for years — broke the story. My phone started ringing off the hook, and my email box bulged. There are still, thank goodness, a lot of real journalists out there. Tim Russert was first. I assured him it wasn’t true, he thanked me for waving him off a false story, and that was that. Then my own network, CNN, called. I told them if I were quitting CNN that CNN would know before Fox News. Soon after, others called or emailed: Jonathan Alter of Newsweek, George Stephanopoulos and Teddy Davis of ABC, Beth Fouhy of AP, Mark Halperin of Time, John Harris of the Politico, Jill Lawrence of USA Today, Peter Baker of the Washington Post, Patrick Healy of the New York Times, David Gregory of NBC and Bill Sammon of the Examiner. There were probably more. I list the names only to give credit to journalists who behaved like reporters, not repeaters.

After I told Fox it wasn’t true — and this is the surreal part — they kept reporting it anyway. In fact, Fox’s Garrett told me he’d “take it under advisement.” Take it under advisement?

Note, the emphasis above is mine. I had to laugh when I read this!

Steve, at The Carpetbagger Report, said:

Generally, professional journalists don’t take the truth “under advisement”; they take it to their audience.

h/t to The Carpetbagger Report