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The Guardian - UK
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Fox News forced to hit pause after rewinding to 2010

US Republican presidential hopeful Ron Paul campaigns in Iowa
Ron Paul ... poor reception on Fox News. Photograph: Tannen Maury/EPA

Trust in TV? Imaginative use of footage that potentially misrepresents the facts? To UK minds this issue is soooo 2007, so Blue Peter Cat and Killer Shark Live. But not perhaps in America. Fox News has, according to US media reports, been caught using misleading footage of Republican congressman Ron Paul apparently being booed at the recent Conservative Political Action Conference. Only observers are pointing out the booing took place at the 2010 event, not this year – when Paul received a warmer reception. Fox News said it made a "mistake" in showing the wrong video – and will issue a correction. Not so much boo, as boohoo, then.

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