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Fox affiliate television station is refusing to apologize for accidentally
broadcasting a room full of reporters offering very frank assessments of a
speech by former half-term Alaska Governor Sarah Palin.
The slip-up happened Friday night as Fox40
in Sacramento was broadcasting live from California State University in
Stanislaus, CA. After the speech concluded, journalists and crew members behind
the scenes offered some off-the-cuff assessment of her remarks, with one man
saying he felt like he'd just stepped off a roller coaster.
Another said he could understand why
"the dumbness doesn't come through in sound-bites." Yet another
argued that she'd not used a complete sentence or even "made a statement."
The station insists their
reporter and photographer were not behind the comments, however, they do not
offer an apology or name the reporters whose voices were picked up.
The Fox crew was turned away from her
actual speech, according to their explanation. Instead of filming the former
official up close, they were forced to point their cameras at a screen in a
media overflow area at a separate venue.
"We were faced with two decisions
-- to not carry a speech of local and national importance due to the
low-quality methods we'd be forced to transmit, or to provide a signal by any
means necessary," the station explained. "It was with the public
interest in mind that we opted for the latter."
Watch former half-term Gov. Palin’s
speech, and listen to reporters’ off camera comments here:
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