Fox News issues apology for graphic that mistakenly indicated President Trump was reducing aid to 'three Mexican countries.'
"The potential downside of a failure to correct a graphic mistake is so much more viral than for audio errors," said one news analyst.Get breaking news alerts and special reports. The news and stories that matter, delivered weekday mornings.Fox News issued an apology on Sunday for an on-screen graphic that mistakenly indicated President Donald Trump was reducing aid to"three Mexican countries.
During an early-morning segment on “Fox & Friends,” a full-width graphic at the bottom of the screen, known as a chyron, read: “Trump Cuts Aid to 3 Mexican Countries,” instead of conveying Trump’s statement that, due to the flow of migrants across the U.S. border with Mexico. Ed Henry, a fill-in co-host on the weekend program, cleared matters up — hours later — saying on air, “We want to clarify and correct something that happened earlier in the show. We had an inaccurate graphic on-screen while talking about this very story. We just want to be clear, the funding is being cut off to the three Central American countries. We apologize for the error — it never should’ve happened.
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