Media watchdogs are all foamed up over Fox News making changes to AP stories and story subjects' quotes. Oh c'mon, everyone's got a house style -- just because Fox changes 'suicide bomber' to 'homicide bomber,' no matter what Hillary Clinton or anyone else might have actually said, doesn't mean they're influencing the news or anything.This isn't exactly news--Fox has been using the term for some time now and it's only to be expected that Fox edits wire reports to suit their own style. Changing quotes is clearly wrong, though.
Of course, Fox deserves the term "homicide bomber," which is obscure, redundant, and misleading--not to mention that Fox's hasty adoption of the term after Ari Fleischer and other White House officials started using it a few years ago makes them look like administration stooges. Which they probably also deserve.
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