a couple of weeks ago, the senior veep at fox news responded to obama's objections to the cable news network by scoffing that the president should know the "difference between the A section of the paper versus the editorial page," as the average american does.
the new york times piece indicates "fox argues that its news hours — 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. and 6 to 8 p.m. on weekdays — are objective." as jon stewart pointed out (video at the link), this means only nine hours of any 24 are actual news--the rest is mere opinion. the remaining 60%+ of its programming hours, as jon stewart points out, includes fox news darlings beck, hannity & o'reilly--names synonymous with fox news, are all, therefore "NOT NEWS!!" more treacherous is that the supposedly straight news part reports on the opinions expressed on the editorial side as if it were actual news, not faux news.
maybe i'm playing captain obvious here. but earlier this week, fox news...or wait, let's be more correct--sean hannity, a faux news flunky, presented something much more than opinion masquerading as fact regarding congresswoman michelle bachman's tea party last week.
it starts with bachman grossly inflating attendance (20 to 40 thousand versus 10 thousand). yawn--that's normal for faux news. but it turns more perfidious. after showing actual footage of attendance at the bachman event, hannity presented footage from a much more widely attended glenn beck protest a couple months ago as being from bachman's protest. the discrepancy is made obvious by the fact that trees, earlier shown to have much of their leaves fallen, are suddenly verdant. the sky, earlier shown to be clear, were suddenly overcast. stewart even provided the original reporting on beck's protest and showed it side by side with the falsely presented bachman footage, and it was exactly the same.
video here and here.
bottom line? faux news spends most of its programming to spout off its right wingnut opinions, but manufactures, fabricates and fictionalizes film in order to further that opinion. what are fox news's slogans? fair and balanced? real journalism? we report, you decide? only in the bizarro world that is fox news.
the saddest & most pathetic thing about this: as far as i can tell, MSM is pretty much ignoring this one.
the new york times piece indicates "fox argues that its news hours — 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. and 6 to 8 p.m. on weekdays — are objective." as jon stewart pointed out (video at the link), this means only nine hours of any 24 are actual news--the rest is mere opinion. the remaining 60%+ of its programming hours, as jon stewart points out, includes fox news darlings beck, hannity & o'reilly--names synonymous with fox news, are all, therefore "NOT NEWS!!" more treacherous is that the supposedly straight news part reports on the opinions expressed on the editorial side as if it were actual news, not faux news.
maybe i'm playing captain obvious here. but earlier this week, fox news...or wait, let's be more correct--sean hannity, a faux news flunky, presented something much more than opinion masquerading as fact regarding congresswoman michelle bachman's tea party last week.
it starts with bachman grossly inflating attendance (20 to 40 thousand versus 10 thousand). yawn--that's normal for faux news. but it turns more perfidious. after showing actual footage of attendance at the bachman event, hannity presented footage from a much more widely attended glenn beck protest a couple months ago as being from bachman's protest. the discrepancy is made obvious by the fact that trees, earlier shown to have much of their leaves fallen, are suddenly verdant. the sky, earlier shown to be clear, were suddenly overcast. stewart even provided the original reporting on beck's protest and showed it side by side with the falsely presented bachman footage, and it was exactly the same.
video here and here.
bottom line? faux news spends most of its programming to spout off its right wingnut opinions, but manufactures, fabricates and fictionalizes film in order to further that opinion. what are fox news's slogans? fair and balanced? real journalism? we report, you decide? only in the bizarro world that is fox news.
the saddest & most pathetic thing about this: as far as i can tell, MSM is pretty much ignoring this one.
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