Late Thursday morning, Fox News attempted to trick its readers for the 86,230th time by incorrectly reporting that billionaire Donald Trump had endorsed GOP presidential hopeful Newt Gingrich instead of Mitt Romney.
Jason Feifer, an editor at Fast Company, was among the first to notice the discrepancy between the story’s headline and its permalink. “FoxNews reported #Trump endorsing Gingrich. Turns out it’s Romney. Fox changed story, kept “endorse Gingrich” link,” Feifer wrote on his Twitter page.
So which candidate did Mr. Trump endorse? Was it Gingrich or Romney? Could this have been an honest mistake or part of a larger conspiracy?
The editors of this magazine lean toward Mr. Feifer’s side, that Fox News is a bunch of thieving buttholes out to spread misinformation and deceive its readers. We fervently believe this despite the rational explanation made by our tech department: an inexperienced web editor at Fox News accidentally wrote the wrong headline and fixed it afterward without realizing that their CMS, which is probably WordPress, didn’t update the permalink in order to prevent broken URLs on websites that have already linked to the story. [Editor’s note: FUCKING WRONG!]
Immediately after reading Mr. Feifer’s tweet, we reached out to representatives at Fox News asking why they are such big liars. We await their response, which will probably be another lie.
