superman7515
September 19th, 2011, 11:27 PM
Chicago Tribune (http://www.poynter.org/latest-news/romenesko/146525/chicago-tribune-fox-sports-actual-headlines-were-fabricated/)
During the Sept. 11 Bears-Falcons season opener, Fox Sports flashed three newspaper headlines across the screen:
Cutler Leaves With Injury
Cutler Lacks Courage
Cutler’s No Leader
Announcer Daryl Johnston told viewers that “these are the actual headlines from the local papers in Chicago”; the Tribune sports staff didn’t buy it and started an investigation.
We searched throughout Illinois newspapers for those headlines — Tribune, Sun-Times, Daily Herald, every other paper in the state. What did we find?
Nothing.
In fact, we could not find any such headlines in any newspaper in the United States.
So, we called Fox to get an explanation.
Fox Sports spokesman Dan Bell acknowledged to the Tribune that the headlines shown were fabrications. “It was misleading,” he admitted....
During the Sept. 11 Bears-Falcons season opener, Fox Sports flashed three newspaper headlines across the screen:
Cutler Leaves With Injury
Cutler Lacks Courage
Cutler’s No Leader
Announcer Daryl Johnston told viewers that “these are the actual headlines from the local papers in Chicago”; the Tribune sports staff didn’t buy it and started an investigation.
We searched throughout Illinois newspapers for those headlines — Tribune, Sun-Times, Daily Herald, every other paper in the state. What did we find?
Nothing.
In fact, we could not find any such headlines in any newspaper in the United States.
So, we called Fox to get an explanation.
Fox Sports spokesman Dan Bell acknowledged to the Tribune that the headlines shown were fabrications. “It was misleading,” he admitted....