Your first sentence is a tautology. That’s the definition of news.
MSNBC has the ability and the opportunity to do a lot of journalism these days. They keep doing it even while they are being equivalenced with the worst pseudo-journalism in US history.
I have a broad question: When they are covering the baboon in the white house, why do you need to accuse them (MSNBC) of spinning? It’s clear that no spin is required. Spinning would make the story even less probable than it already is.
MSNBC is more informative and ethical than CNN, slant and all.
If you go to the Fox “News” website right now, the day after the election, you’d almost think there wasn’t an election the day prior. Search for the term “election” on the main page…you get three results. The only relevant one is half-way down the page and it is a link to a fox & friends video segment.
My father in law has come to live with us and he is a true FoxNews devotee. He and I (a flaming liberal) enjoy hashing out the politics of the day. He parrots FoxNews without so much as a thought that they might be lying. He truly doesn’t think they are lying at all. Sure, like anyone, they might rarely make a mistake, but they correct it and move on. But lying? No way! They tell it like it is. Oh, and Obama was a wimp who tried to ruin the country and Trump doesn’t take any shit off of anybody. Thank God for Trump, who won’t let the world push us around any more.
So last night, as we’re eating dinner, he had FoxNews on in anticipation of Trump’s speech in Seoul. Tucker Carlson ran a story about how CNN had lied about something or other having to do with Hillary Clinton, I think. They story was somewhat convoluted and I really wasn’t following his point. Nevertheless, the upshot of it was that journalists have a responsibility to report the truth of an event/issue/whatever and they cannot allow their personal opinions to enter into the reporting. Sebastian Gorka enthusiastically agreed. Awesome. Tuck then finished with some damning report about CNN and asked the audience if CNN would report this issue, refute it, or ignore it. Still, the big thing was that journalists CANNOT EXPRESS THEIR PERSONAL OPINIONS WHEN REPORTING THE FACTS.
Awesome. Cut to commercial.
Coming back from the commercial, Tuck decided to kill time with a bit of reporting about the election. He reported, factually, that Bill D’Blasio had won reelection in NYC. Here were Tuck’s words: “Bill D’Blasio has been reelected as Mayor of New York, but I can’t imagine why.”
That might be a little hyperbolic, but I clearly remember when Trump was preparing for his first overseas visit… that one where he outed the Israeli intelligence source… Fox was prepping its viewers with a chyron about Obama having bowed more often than was previously known. This was before the trip took place. Later that week they were running with “Trump shakes hand of Saudi prince, does not bow.”
Somebody needs to tell Fox that Obama isn’t president anymore.
The article contains a 3-word quote fragment from Pelosi saying “door is open” to Democrats retaking the house, wrapped in a bunch of panic-inducing quotes reminding everyone that Nancy Pelosi is a boogeyperson who will be Speaker again if the house flips.
Neil Cavuto must be very pleased that his name is in the dictionary. He is all-time famous! Like one of those guys who becomes well-known, at least for a while, for going into a random crowd with guns blazing. Yes, like a mass murderer – for Cavuto has been instrumental in the attempted slaughter of reality.
I usually wouldn’t. I was just curious what this mustache-twirling “gloating” entailed, that it would strike such terror into Fox viewers. Of course the entirety of the “gloating” ended up being the sentence fragment “door is open”. Of course this seems to be taken from a statement 3 weeks before the election, referring to the hope that Trump’s horrible polling numbers would help Democrats retake the house.
Yeah, I just went back and read that, since you did. I don’t see any evidence of “gloating” Of course, I didn’t expect to see any. There is a cool story about a couple having sex in Domino’s Pizza not going to jail
I don’t know how that one slipped in, but on their front page’s “Features and Faces” right now, they have stories more appropriate for their audience, with cutting-edge reports on Frank Sinatra, Jane Seymour, and the Golden Girls.
I had reason to go to FoxNews U.S. page just now, and will report what I saw.
An orange pop-up alerted me to
FOX NEWS FIRST: Donna Brazile: My book tells ‘hard truths’ about Clinton campaign, DNC
Other top headlines were:
Leave No Man Behind: Expert team prepares to retrieve remains of fallen WWII servicemen from up to 350 feet below ice
Authorities search for 3 men who escaped Tennessee jail
US army to decide if Bergdahl is entitled to $300G back pay
Man on trans-Pacific voyage in ocean rowboat rescued
Pence, Abbott attend vigil for victims of church shooting
Rep. Marsha Blackburn: To save lives and money, we must cut off federal funding for sanctuary cities
New York City school shut down when toddler dies after eating grilled cheese
Ex-principal in Kentucky to be sentenced in child porn case
13 Baltimore high schools, no students proficient in math, report says
Man who claimed to be first ‘Dreamer’ deported under Trump arrested again for allegedly trying to enter US
Las Vegas shooting victims still searching for their heroes
[religion] Marine Corps drill instructor abuse case going to jury
At the top of the videos list:
Air Force hate crime hoax: Past hate crime hoaxes round-up
I didn’t copy-paste all the smaller-font headlines, but these caught my eye:
California teacher arrested for alleged sexual misconduct while working in Tennessee
Pence tells Texas shooting victims ‘we will never leave your side’
(Was it key to their Tennessee sexual misconduct story to show in the headline that the teacher was from California? Was Pence’s church visit so important for Americans to know about that TWO different front-page headlines were needed?)
As an experimental “control” I also checked CNN’s U.S. page. It may not have been much better overall — Kevin Spacey was the big story — but overall it had more relevance than Fox’s page.
