Fox News hits new low

Unbelivable. Fox News gave the address of a home during a news broadcast saying a terrorist with ties to the London bombing lived there, in order to goad the police into taking action. They were completely wrong. The alleged terrorist moved out three years ago and an innocent family with three young children live there now. They have gone through hell since the irresponsible item was aired.

For the last 2 1/2 weeks, the lives of the couple and their three children have been plunged into an unsettling routine of drivers shouting profanities, stopping to photograph their house and — most recently — spray-painting a slogan on their property.

"I'm scared to go to work and leave my kids home. I call them every 30 minutes to make sure they're OK," Randy Vorick said.

In what Fox News officials concede was a mistake, John Loftus, a former U.S. prosecutor, gave out the address Aug. 7, saying it was the home of a Middle Eastern man, Iyad K. Hilal, who was the leader of a terrorist group with ties to those responsible for the July 7 bombings in London.

What the hell are they doing giving out that kind of information on television, even if it's correct? Shouldn't that be given to law enforcement? Fox concedes its mistake, "in a one-line statement to the Los Angeles Times and Loftus in an e-mail to the family — after being contacted by the newspaper. The Voricks say they have yet to see or hear a correction."