In this story, Fox News wonders aloud why the L.A. Times is refusing to release a video that was the basis for an April 2008 story regarding a 2003 videotaped event at which Obama was spoke highly of a guy who is a former "press secretary" (for lack of a better description) for the PLO while in exile in Syria.
It is a rule among the press that unpublished materials are NEVER made available. That sports photo you saw in the paper? The photographer took hundreds of shots, and chose to print one. You can't get copies of the other pictures - ever. You can order the one that was published.
TV news organizations will shoot an hour of footage, publish 20 seconds, and never, ever, ever release the balance.
This is true even in the face of a subpoena. Reporters will go to jail first (at least good ones will).
So it is astonishing that a purported news organization like Fox News would bat an eye at another news organizations' continuing to uphold that most basic of principles. No legitimate news organzation would ever consider producing unpublished material, and Fox knows this.
In reality, this is Fox News picking up the newest McCain talking point - Obama is a threat to the security of Israel, so Jews should vote for McCain. Sad, but not unexpected. But there is no question (as if there could have been) that Fox is "in the tank" (to borrow a phrase) for McCain.
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