# FOX NEWS you F\*\*\*HOLES

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fox-news-you-f-holes/131864>\
**Category:** The BBQ Pit\
**Created:** [October 11, 2002, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fox-news-you-f-holes/131864 "2002-10-11T19:42:17Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![welby1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/838e76/32.png) [@welby1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/welby1)\
**Post date:** [October 15, 2002, 11:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fox-news-you-f-holes/131864/21 "2002-10-15T11:51:38Z")

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**Zebra** I was watching them because I don’t control the TV at work. If it were up to me, I’d have been watching anything but news.

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**Author:** ![Earthworm\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f07891/32.png) [@Earthworm\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earthworm_Jim)\
**Post date:** [October 15, 2002, 12:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fox-news-you-f-holes/131864/22 "2002-10-15T12:06:10Z")

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> \*Originally posted by Libertarian \*  
> \*\*I can understand why Welby was pissed. But calling them scum while pretending that CNN is squeaky clean perfect is naive and jejune. \*\*

That’s not at all what I meant - more that we (the proverbial we) reward those stations which employ these tactics. They have no real incentive to engage in more responsible journalism, because that’s not what the viewers want.

“I’m the most _june_ person I know” 😃  
–Woody Allen, Love and Death

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