The biggest welfare queens are in the banking and financial business.
Don’t be silly, those guys don’t get food stamps!
And they drive Bentleys and high-end Benzes. You are completely offbase.
This would fall into the same category as crews carefully choosing camera angles to try and make a handful of people seems like a large crowd.
If you think FOX is the only news source that tries to “enhance” their live shots news coverage, I have a bridge for sale…cheap
Yup; but there’s a difference between having a leaning; having an agenda; and between being an outright, completely dishonest propaganda organ. Fox is the latter. They are nothing more than the Pravda of the Republican Party.
I thought it was common knowledge that Fox does this stuff.
The whole thing was organized by Glenn Beck in the first place. All of these teabagger rallies are heavily sponsored and promoted by Fox News and talk radio. They’re all just a bunch of radio/Fox News fan events. I don’t know why Fox even bothered to say that it was a mistake to lead a cheer. That’s what all their hosts do anyway.
FoxNews is and always has been run by Roger Ailes, a lifelong Republican political consultant and adviser. They only people who do not think they are purely a propaganda wing are their viewers. Everyone else, including everyone who works at Fox News, knows what they are.
Don’t you have consumer laws that prevent corporations describing a product as one thing when it’s something else? It should be illegal to describe what Fox does as ‘news’.
Don’t you people get tired of this back and forth? I’m too exhausted to shake my fists and shout “corruption!” anymore. God damn people, it’s like your outrage factory never shuts down for weekends or holidays.
This is nothing. Even less than the ACORN nothing. Even less than the birth certificate nothing. Calm down and get some perspective here! A news agency tried to make a national story out of something barely worthy of being scribbled on a bathroom stall. It happens. So what?
AFAIK, there is no legal definition of “news”, thus they cannot be held to be committing fraud.
This is the problem. After 8 years of Bush people are bombed out: What would never have been acceptable for some now passes without comment because some just don’t have the will anymore.
Beaten down and barely conscious.
Hey. You want irony, the people actually AT the DC Tea Party protests were complaining the city didn’t provide them with what they felt was sufficient public transportation service.
So, where was FOX when the President gave his address to congress?
Oh that’s right, Dancing with the Stars was MUCH more important than some silly ol’ health care reform.
Par for the course. The regularly manipulate reality, spin it, or just plain make it up.
There is bound to be a journalist code of ethics, which contains something along the lines of: “Report and interpret honestly, striving for accuracy, fairness and disclosure of all essential facts. Do not suppress relevant available facts, or give distorting emphasis. Do your utmost to give a fair opportunity for reply.” Not sure what the US version is called, but I doubt there is a legal obligation to comply, more an industry obligation.
Fox News exists simply for the large segment of the conservative base who want the Republican party to piss down thier back so they can collect the rainwater.
They don’t want Truth, they don’t want facts they want to hear how everything they believe is right and everthing anyone else thinks is not only wrong, but evil so that they feel good about what they believe. Fox tells them what they want to believe, they tune out anything that conflicts and in thier reality everything they believe is the One True Way and anything else is an ‘attack’.
I’m shocked that there is anyone only coming to this conclusion now.
Back in April, Fox ‘News’ hosted … not covered, *hosted *… a Tea Party Jamboree, complete with big name country artists being introduced by Fox anchors. News anchors (if you can charitably refer to Hannity that way) saying, “stay tuned to Fox’s TeaParty, for Toby Keith up next”, while throngs of ignorant yokels in the background demanded their country back.
What news organization has ever done that? Did CNN host a “Bush Lied!-apalooza”? Did MSNBC throw a “Impeach W” party at 8, 7 central? Did the New York Times put on a “Get Out of Iraq” jamboree with the Dixie Chicks as headliners?
Fox ‘News’ is anything but news. But we already knew that. At least I thought we did.
It’s unclear to me whether you believe that something like this, only Fox News would do, or whether you’re choosing this incident, which happens to be from Fox, to decry the general practice.
In the first case, it would be relevant (and NOT a tu quoque) to point out similar examples from other organizations. If it’s the second case, then pointing out similar examples would be classic tu quoque fallacy.
It’s something only Fox does.