# Is Fox News really all that bad? **URL:** \ **Category:** Great Debates\ **Created:** [October 3, 2012, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-fox-news-really-all-that-bad/636625 "2012-10-03T21:14:56Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 1613
**Author:** ![septimus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/septimus/32/410_2.png) [@septimus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/septimus)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2017, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-fox-news-really-all-that-bad/636625/1613 "2017-11-20T21:08:31Z")
Let’s give credit where credit is due. > [@How many supernovas does it take to make a solar system's worth of heavier elements?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-supernovas-does-it-take-to-make-a-solar-systems-worth-of-heavier-elements/802189/5): > > According to [a recent news story](http://www.foxnews.com/science/2017/10/17/astronomers-strike-gold-witness-massive-cosmic-collision.html), only lighter elements (including iron) are produced by supernovae. Elements with atomic weight much higher than iron are produced by _ **collisions of neutron stars** _. I didn’t set out to quote FoxNews. It was a random story reported in several outlets. The link I followed (barely 1 month old) had been expunged as had other links I found with Google. Fox was the first one I found with the archive intact. Hypothesis: Obviously Fox just copied the story from a news service. Some other quoting sites might have deleted it as part of a content-for-pay plan (?), while Fox feels that keeping it boosts their science credential. :eek: Plus the story mentions gold and platinum specifically as elements only produced in the neutron star collision, possible fodder for their precious metal advertisers and conspiracy bloggers. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-fox-news-really-all-that-bad/636625)._