Filed under: MSNBC, Journalism, FOX News, Canada, Rachel Sklar
The Huffington Post’s Rachel Sklar somehow managed to embarrass herself twice within one “Eat the Press” item yesterday.
In an attempt to explain the upcoming Fox Business Network advertising on MSNBC, she mistakenly assumed that FBN was paying NBC for ad space. Clearly, not the case. What she missed is that this is something very common called local avail — meaning time is bought on local cable systems. Therefore, FOX, in this case, paid Time Warner — not NBC.
After apparently hearing from FOX regarding her mistake, Sklar posted a clarification, yet continued to refer to the soon-to-launch network as Fox Business Channel (FBC); however, anyone writing about the media should know it’s called the Fox Business Network (FBN).
Get it together, girl! After all, one of your Big Head DC comrades used to live very near Canada. And we know you don’t want to give Canadians a bad name, especially in the American press.
Earlier: A Very Special Media Madness List!

I am surprised at that mistake by Huffington. I read it all the time and they are usually a good source. I guess we all make mistakes.
When she starts embarrassing herself three or more times in one item, she’ll be BHDC material!
[…] Just Friends | GOP Logo Gets an Extreme Gay Makeover | Chris Matthews Drunk Rumors Re-Surface We Taught Sklar a Lesson & She Still Links To Us Monday October 8th, 2007 1:13 PM by BHDC Staff Filed under: Journalism,Patrick Gavin, Canada, Rachel Sklar Rachel Sklar, a top media editor with the Huffington Post, is one classy gal. After we pointed out a couple mistakes she made last week regarding cable news coverage, she graciously noted her errors and even gave us a shout out in an update: Drama! Some bloggers are stunned that I was unwise to the ways of local avail ad buys. I am only too, too happy to learn and update accordingly, but still stand by my assessment of the exchange as a deal, albeit through a middleman (rationale in my comment here on a post at The Cable Game). All references to Fox Business Network as Fox Business Channel have been corrected, including acronyms — though, yes yes, Big Head, we’re very embarrassed. From you, we could learn. But on a more serious note, ETP takes the veracity of our posts seriously, and is only too happy to update when we learn we’ve posted in error or without the benefit of full context. So the post has been updated to reflect the additional information, both in the body of the original text and in the updates above. Thanks for reading! […]
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