Chris Wallace is a "trusted journalist"? Since when?!?
Fox News Network sued the U.S.
Senate campaign organization of Robin Carnahan in Missouri,
alleging unauthorized use of the cable channel’s footage in a
“smear ad” against her opponent.
The Carnahan campaign used the video to give the impression
that the network and Chris Wallace, a Fox News host, were
endorsing her against her opposing candidate, Roy Blunt, Fox
said in a complaint filed yesterday in federal court in Kansas
City.
“The Carnahan ad is designed to make it appear as if
Wallace -- a trusted journalist -- is instead speaking as a
campaign operative,” Fox said in the complaint, which also
lists Wallace as a plaintiff. Fox, a unit of New York-based News
Corp., said it hasn’t endorsed a candidate in the race. News
Corp.’s political action committee has given $2,500 to Blunt,
according to the Center for Responsive Politics.
The network said Carnahan, a Democrat, infringed its
copyright by using in a 32-second campaign advertisement a 2006
Wallace interview with Blunt, a Republican U.S. congressman.
Wallace was questioning Blunt about whether he was the best
candidate for House majority leader at the time.
“We stand behind our ad,” Linden Zakula, press secretary
for the Carnahan campaign, said in an e-mailed statement. “It’s
unclear why Fox News refuses to stand by its own content that
simply asked questions about Congressman Blunt’s Washington
record.”
This month Carnahan’s organization began running the ad,
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“Clean Up the House,” on television and online. The complaint
said the spot begins, “I’m Robin Carnahan, and I approve this
message,” and then displays the Fox footage with the network’s
logo.
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