You left about the most amusingly desperate splice - http://thinkprogress.org/2009/03/16/fox-news-fundamentals/

"Errors"?

Since when have these been considered "errors"? I've just assumed they've been "catapulting the propaganda" as their patron saint George the Lesser used to say.

Fox News IS an "on screen error";>

This, however, is priceless:
"It is more important to get it right, than it is to get it on."
and size doesn't matter;>

So Fox is bending to liberal pressure and muzzling their news programs.

This is a sad day for the First Amendment.

Good Lord, they'll be staffless within three weeks. Which brings up the "feature, not a bug" line.

I'll believe it when I see it. More correctly, I'll believe it when Jon Stewart sees it.

Hey, an "Al" sighting. What a great day this is turning out to be.

There you have it. I think it's telling that Al and Faux watchers are pro-error.

This is entirely bafflegab for public consumption. He says "there is zero tolerance" but then that errors "may result" in bad things happening to people or their supervisors. Something tells me they're going to hire a bunch of possibly-nonexistent junior personnel who can be scapegoated and fired.

And the higher-ups will be reprimanded for doing stuff obviously enough to get caught.

Doocy, Carlson and Kilmeade "have been ridiculous for years", and what does Fox intend for their futures at Fox News?

So what are they going to call this new error free programing ? They obviously will have to change their name to exclude the word 'news' or is that memo just more of the same, viewer appeasement.

I wonder if they sent a copy of this memo to their "Department of Making Shit Up" . . .

In reading the memo, I came across this bit: "...and we never having to explain, retract, qualify or apologize again. Please know that jobs are on the line here. I can not [sic] stress that enough." What does "...we never having to explain..." mean? Does the writer of that bit get a reprimand, or is it only on air faux pas that get critiqued?
Zero tolerance is a very high bar when taken into the context of what has passed for quality in the past. They may want to start with 50% tolerance, 50% Fair and 50% Balanced.
Just a thought.

I'm skeptical that this is gonna last, but....

Hasn't our main complaint been that they make these partisan "mistakes" all the time? Shouldn't we be able to welcome the announcement at face value and still be able to monitor Fox for whether they successfully become more news-like?

If they don't, well, that's just more fodder for going after them again. But if they mean it, and actually clean up the act in substantial ways, why would that be a bad thing?

But if FOX produces an error-free newscast, George Soros's gay shock-troops at MediaMatters will have won! And the snot-nosed interns at The Daily Show, too!

Al, brilliant!!!

FOX news without errors is like Sarah Palin without a buttplug. Nonexistent.

Constant lying isn't a "mistake".

It doesn't matter how many "media critics" or Fox executives say so, or how often. This is just bullshit, plain and simple.

We'll have zero tolerance for poor quality lies, ie lies which are easy enough for liberals to spot. Otherwise, carry on...

I think that they may have opened a can of worms for themselves here. Now when they make mistakes, it will reflect even harder on them, and there is no way that the corporate culture at Fuchs Nous can operate without "making mistakes." It's part of their very being.

Oh please. They got caught manipulating the media; propaganda no different than what Goebbels put out under the Nazis. Every "mistake" afterwards was as calculated as the first. The follow up "mistakes" were nothing more than an effort to say "See, we are serious journalists; we do make mistakes now and then". To take the view away from them as propagandaists.

At my former newspaper, to discourage sloppy reporting and editing, we started running corrections on the front page. It helped. So here, Fox, you want to prove your good faith with your news biz? Lead your newscast with your corrections and apologies. Then do the same thing with the newscast on the next cycle. Until then, just stick your "we regret the error" messages up your Foxhole.

Hey Al: Here we go yet again: You really need to pick up an eighth-grade civics textbook. In the current discussion, is the GOVERNMENT requiring FoxNews to alter their broadcasting in any way? No? Then shut the fuck up about the "1st Amendment" because you obviously don't know what you're talking about. Fox is making a business decision based on The Market telling them it might be better for business if they were a little more stringent with what they choose to air. I thought you guys worshipped The Market?

"Effective immediately, there is zero tolerance for on-screen errors."

How are they going to get any ratings if they're broadcasting zero signal 24/7?

As long as ratings are up, this is all just a show of concern about integrity-they really could care less.

It's amazing that a national "news operation" got called out by comedian Jon Stewart who is viewed as more truthful than Fox News anchors.

Slanted coverage is one thing but blatantly false reporting deserves public condemnation.

This is rich that the internal FOX memo regarding "on-sreen errors" and "mistakes" itself contains a spelling error. As they say, a fish rots from the head...