I am NOT a Fox News fan. Not by any stretch of the imagination.
I also pretty much agree with the Fox News animus that goes along with the majority of this board.
That said, if were to be called to the carpet and asked to give examples [as in cites] I’m not entirely sure I could.
Putting (D) next to the names of scandal-ridden Republicans.
Claiming that they’re “fair and balanced”, but you’ll need other lies to put the lie to that lie.
I remember something about a memo from Murdoch telling his staff to put a Conservative spin on everything, but I don’t remember the details.
How many times has that happened?
Hmm, I don’t know if this is a lie or if O’Reilly can’t do math, but he claimed that by adding his Federal income tax rate to his cap gains tax, he’s paying 50% tax to the feds. With a 35% regular income tax bracket and a 15% cap gains, he’d only pay 25%*** if*** he earned his income equally from regular income and capital gains.
Media Matters – http://mediamatters.org – has lots of examples.
Jon Stewart skewers Fox regularly. He also points out that even when caught in a blatant lie, Fox never issues a correction.
There’s an excellent documentary called Outfoxed that has internal information, interviews with former employees etc.
Fox News is brilliant. I have an opposing political viewpoint, and I think their methods could be considered morally wrong at best. But the fact that they pull it off is impressive. Alot of people dont really realize they’re watching whats basically the PR arm of the Republican party. I have to watch fox news in small doses else I start getting angry.
Youtube some old footage of the newsmen. Walter Cronkite, Dan Rather, Tom Brokow. They’d deliver the news in a clear non-opinionated fashion. When they were giving their opinion, you knew it. With fox thier opinion is constantly thrown in with the facts.
Fox news viewers, in survey after survey are the least informed of the facts. One of them found that 80% of fox viewers thought one or more of these were true: Iraq had wmd, iraq was involved in 9/11, iraq worked with al qaeda.
I doubt you’ll find many clips of fox’s main reporters saying “we’ve discovered WMD in iraq, its a confirmed fact”. (perhaps you will, im assuming even they’re not that brazen) But what fox often does is they’ll have the reporter say “here’s jim white to discuss iraq’s WMD and what we should do about it” its assumed now that Iraq has WMD’s. But when you really look at what the reporter said, HE never said iraq had wmd’s, he said his GUEST is here to discuss iraq’s wmd’s. However the average viewer is thinking “they just told me iraq has wmd’s”.
Their coverage leans towards stories that favor the GOP, and try not to cover the ones that show them in a bad light. I saw stats (i just tried finding them but I cant) about how many hours fox devoted to the Katrina versus the Libya embassy attack and they were way way off. Yes both were horrible things where americans died, but 1 was an embassy in a country thats not exactly great friends with the US with 4 dead. The other had over 1400 americans die with some people on their rooftops waiting for a rescue that took a sickening amount of time. People died from expore, starvation, lack of clean water. In a country that can mobilize a small army anywhere in the world in 24hrs that shouldnt happen. Fox reported on Libya for months, stating that the president is responsible for things that happen on his watch since he’s the top authority. They reported on Katrina for a few weeks then fizzled out, stating the president wasnt responsible, it was FEMA, the governor, the mayor, the citizens for not leaving etc. But again alot of these views were from opinionated guests. Sometimes a counter-opinion is presented, but its usually shot down.
Although fox lies and im sure people will post links listing them off, I think whats worse is an opinion intertwined with the facts in a way that seem to trick viewers into believing that those opinions are either facts, or they’re so universally believed and accepted that it may as well be fact.
Excellent post, mutex!
Thanks
Foley, the pedophile, was ID’d as a Democrat by Fox, but actually was a Republican.
I seem to recall the same thing happening in the Larry Craig case, but my memory may be faulty.
I thought it happened with the Vitter thing, too, but I can’t find anything.
They showed footage they claimed was riots in Madison Wisconsin. Palm trees were obviously visible.
BTW, the “bussing in” was actually sponsored by the Koch Brothers.
Faux News lied about Scott Walker’s 2010 campaign:
In fact, over three months of protests in Madison resulted in fewer than ten arrests as compared to an average of 30 on a typical football Saturday.
YouTube probably has more than 500 Fox News lies videos with, perhaps, 100 different instances.