Originally posted by dillweed
reply to post by American-philosopher
That's it? That's the best you have? They handled that case better than any of the news outlets. You people are ridiculous with your blanket
accusations about fox, with not one instance of where they misled anyone. Just because what they report doesn't agree with your political stance on a
subject, you call them names. Fox news is the most unbiased source for news available in the US today. Again I ask all you fox haters, give me an
example of where they are trying to mislead the viewer by lying about the facts. Give me an example.
Dude are you kidding? How about the Ron Paul CPAC straw poll a few weeks ago? They played footage from last years CPAC when Paul won it, but only put
microphones in the Mit Romney section so it sounded like all he got were boos, when in reality there were more cheers. So is it not misleading that at
this years CPAC Ron Paul won again, but they played last years footage with the microphones only in Romneys section? What about all the cases over the
years where they were busted photoshopping pictures of people they didn't agree with, making their ears and noses bigger? In a few cases they
apologized for that, meaning they did it. Or the Wisconsin protests this year with the reporter in the crowd saying "he hit me, this guy just hit
me", getting it played on Oreilly I think, in hopes of showing union people as violent leftist thugs, but only playing the audio with the footage
showing the crowd the day before, then later the footage came out of the "assault" showing that it was very crowded and while he was filming his bit
some guy bumped into him, totally obviously accidental seemingly tripping over someone else' feet, BARELY bumping into the guy when he was trying to
catch himself... Another deception from the Wisconsin protests was on one of the fox shows talking about the protests, painting unions as all bad
people, showing footage from some union protest in California in a bright and sunny day with palm trees when some people got into a shoving match
wearing shorts and t shirts. How about the day after 9/11 showing footage of "Muslims celebrating the attack on America", which later came out to be
footage of someone's wedding in Pakistan 2 years earlier... I can't remember if this one was fox or what but it fits their profile, and the profile
of the corporate media in general so I'll add it in, the footage of the Arabs burning the flag, which was later admitted by one of the producers on
the scene to be a staged event paying the guys a small fee to do it and providing the flag. How about Ann Coulter saying that nuclear radiation is
good for you? Here is another possible issue quotes from an article ... "Fox should remove Huckabee and Palin unless they unequivocally state they
will not run for president. A credible news network should not be a welfare program for partisan candidates or a source of unregulated campaign
donations for them by paying them for airtime.". There are many more iexamples, but those are the most recent over the past year and a half or so.
If you are a regular watcher of fox news and a staunch defender of them I might assume you think I'm a socialist liberal commie leftist lover of
Stalin and Lenin hater of America new age atheist, but actually I'm a conservative who likes to do his own research when presented an article on a
website or a report on TV that piques my interest, and whenever I have looked up something I saw on fox I come to find out they are sleazy liars by
omission, who spin their news to no end, and have a dedicated following who drink from their fount of cognitive/consciousness poison, assuming things
become fact after they are repeated enough times over and over again, rather than being facts because there is a stream of data on a specific topic
proving something as a fact. Fox tells their viewers over and over and over and over again that they report "just the facts" and "no spin", when
that is fundamentally impossible to do if you are a corporate news business. I believe in the Constitution. I do not believe in the false left/right
paradigm that fox news props up. And no I don't watch or read CNN, CBS, ABC, NBC, CSPAN, CNBC, MSNBC, Headline News, Court Tv, Fox Business, New York
Times, Time Magazine, Newsweek. I support the alternative media. The same alternative media that Glenn Beck steals his talking points from, and spins
them in to Neo Con propaganda under the fake guise of Libertarianism. The same alternative media made up of people Beck and fox news dare not speak
the names of for fear of losing more ratings, and the deeper darker fear of their bosses finding out who they are plagiarizing.