Did Fox act ethically by airing off air comments made during a commercial break?

Question

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080710/ap_on_el_pr/obama_jackson

Answer 1

the public needs to see Jesse Jackson for what he is. Everyone seems to forget the reverends  baby with a woman who was not his wife and also the racial comments about Jews. Jesse is a racist perverted cheating pig and someone like Obama needs to knock him off his block. The only reason he is behind Obama is because he is black and yet he says Obama is putting down the black man. Jesse will stand for any black cause no matter if it is wrong or right.

Answer 2

Nothing is out of bounds especially for Fox! They feed off of smear, kind of like Paparazzi.

Answer 3

Fox is no better than TMZ or the Enquirer. You know half of what they say isn't true and the other half is twisted within an inch of it's life. The fact that people still take it seriously just absolutely floors me.

Answer 4

Hah! Since when is news about ethics? That has happened to celebrities and politicians ever since there were microphones. It is certainly not peculiar to FOX. They all have done it.

Answer 5

No.... but its kind of funny though

Answer 6

The real question should be: Do you think Jackson acted ethically by wanting to castrate Obama? Why Jesse Jackson thinks he's still relevant is beyond me and most everyone else.

Fox is a lot cleaner than the other news agencies. They usually just make up the news as they see fit and leave out the truth.

By the way, when you have a microphone attached to your shirt, you watch what you say, because it's never off.

Answer 7

No - did you expect anything other than "unethical" from Fox?

It's their bread and butter.

Answer 8

Of course they did.

By their standards.

Did you think for one moment they were going to turn the mikes off with Jackson around?

There's orgasmic glee at Fox!

And Blitzer, (over at CNN) to his shame, is not far behind.