'Red
& Green Clothing Ban'
False Rumor
December 12, 2005
On Friday, December 9, on the Fox News Channel's "The
O'Reilly Factor," with Bill O'Reilly and guest Jim Pinkerton,
Fox News analyst, it was falsely reported in a segment entitled
"More Victories for Christmas," that ...
....."In
Plano, Texas, a school told students they couldn't wear red and
green because
they are Christmas colors."......
Due to the number
of e-mails, inquiries and phone calls to Plano ISD regarding
students "wearing
red and green," Superintendent of Schools Dr. Doug Otto
has posted this communication to assure the school community
that this rumor is not true.
"The school district does not restrict
students or staff from wearing certain color clothes during holiday
times
or any other school days," noted Dr.
Otto, who said that the school district's attorney has requested
that Mr. O'Reilly retract the statement.
Dr. Otto said that attorneys have requested of Mr. O'Reilly
that, in the future, he ask his fact checkers to do a
more thorough job of confirming the facts before he airs them.
"It would
be our hope that you would engage in fair and balanced reporting
of this nationally recognized school district in the future," wrote
PISD's attorney.
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