They're Playing The Hits

 

As you probably know by now, Fox News got into a little trouble, first by reporting an AI fake video as real (from Media-ite)...

Fox News’s website is drawing heat from media industry observers for getting duped by an AI-generated video — and then failing to take sufficient accountability for the error.

In a piece published Friday to Foxnews.com, writer Alba Cuebas-Fantauzzi posted about SNAP beneficiaries threatening to loot stores amid the government shutdown. The piece, originally headlined “SNAP Beneficiaries Threaten to Ransack Stores Over Government Shutdown,” quoted Black women claiming to be SNAP recipients complaining about the cutoff of benefits due to the shutdown.

“I have seven different baby daddies and none of ‘em no good for me,” one purported SNAP recipient said.

...then, once they were caught lying, for simply rewriting the lie as an AI video that had somehow gone viral.

According to public records, the "reporter" on this beat, Ms. Alba Cuebas-Fantauzzi took her BA Communication straight from the University of Colorado Colorado Springs, where she graduated in the Spring 2021 and put it to work doing digital scut work for the National Museum Of The Marine Corps.

After that, blogging! (Something called "The Wallflower Chronicle").

And then:

Alba Cuebas-Fantauzzi is a production assistant at Fox News Digital based in Tennessee. Alba joined Fox News Digital in 2024 and currently focuses on media and cultural trends. You can reach her at alba.cuebas-fantauzzi@fox.com.

Who obviously fully absorbed the Fox in-house "style" manual without batting an eye, because A!Job!On!TeeVee!

FYI, for any Liberal billionaires out there thinking about creating a Liberal media ecosystem to compete with the Right's propaganda machine, this is what media farm-team development looks like.

So, will this publishing this racist lie damage Ms. Cuebas-Fantauzzi career at Fox?

Are you kidding?  It'll probably get her a promotion.

First, because it will quickly be buried beneath 100 other more horrifying human right violations, war crimes, blatantly unconstitutional power grabs as well as 100 more titillating propaganda sharts from  the GOP's propaganda machine.

Second, because "greedy welfare queens feeding off the labor of hard-working, white Christian Murricans" isn't just another Fox News lie.  It's wingnut scripture, set down by the greatest ape of all, their Lawgiver.

“She has eighty names, thirty addresses, twelve Social Security cards, and is collecting veteran’s benefits on four deceased husbands. And she is collecting welfare under each of the names.” -- Ronald Reagan, Kingsport, Tennessee, 1976

And nobody at Fox News gets fired for playing the hits.

I Am The Liberal Media