Fox News: At it again

[rowjimmy]

still live on their site....

[VDB]

Rule #1 of car-chase journalism: Never wait on the copy desk.

[VDB]

Hilarious Fox News headline of the day:

As Obama hammers 'income inequality,' gap grows under his presidency

[Buffalo Budd]

http://www.independent.ie/entertainment/tv-radio/fox-news-anchors-left-redfaced-as-penis-accidentally-flashed-on-screen-30103917.html

[VDB]

FN is barely even attempting to mask their contempt any more.

[runawayjimbo]

FN is barely even attempting to mask their contempt any more.

Did they ever?

[DoW]

FN is barely even attempting to mask their contempt any more.

Did they ever?

so why do you read/watch it?
honestly, if it wasn't for checking in on what I find to be a  humorous thread, I'd have no idea what Fox news is saying.

focussing on the neagtive is so 3.0

[mehead]

FN is barely even attempting to mask their contempt any more.

Of course, specifically to this post, it's true.

Just sayin'

[VDB]

so why do you read/watch it?
honestly, if it wasn't for checking in on what I find to be a  humorous thread, I'd have no idea what Fox news is saying.

focussing on the neagtive is so 3.0

A couple reasons.
1. It's important not to insulate yourself in your own viewpoints or those of strictly like-minded people.
1a. You might see or learn something that helps you grow.
1b. Know thy enemy.
2. As a onetime journalism student and former part-time journalist, I enjoy media criticism, and FN sure provides plenty of fodder for that.
3. Its ludicrousness makes me laugh.

[ytowndan]

[VDB]

FN producer standing over the shoulder of the graphics guy: "No, no, no. Make the one on the left, like, a lot shorter. People will think the numbers are too reasonably close otherwise. Shorter... shorter... shorter, dammit! Perfect."


eta: This is a pretty fascinating look at FN's history of not knowing (or, choosing to ignore) how charts work.

[mbw]

FN producer standing over the shoulder of the graphics guy: "No, no, no. Make the one on the left, like, a lot shorter. People will think the numbers are too reasonably close otherwise. Shorter... shorter... shorter, dammit! Perfect."

Kinda like he did with this picture:  "No, use this picture of some lazy black folk who couldn't even enroll on time for their government healthcare"

[VDB]

Looking at this front-page headline, a casual Fox News reader might get the impression that this is some punk kid just trying to flippantly dismiss the importance of the Benghazi episode -- which would fit neatly with Fox News' long-running narrative that they and only they are taking the matter seriously and everyone else is part of some liberal conspiracy to cover up the most egregious presidential scandal since Sally Hemmings.

And then you read the article.

Baier then asked Vietor whether he personally changed the word "attack" to "demonstrations" in the talking points for Rice.

"Maybe, I don't really remember," Vietor said.

When pressed by Baier, Vietor said, "Dude, this was like two years ago. We're still talking about the most mundane process."

Oh. Wait. So they guy is actually saying he can't recall a certain detail because a lot of time has passed. Well shit.

This is a favorite past time of FN.com headline writers: twist, distort, take out of context, and in general make it sound as bad as possible for [Obama/Democrats/college professors/Hollywood types] so that even those just scanning headlines get the "appropriate" message.

[VDB]

And furthermore, as a journalism professor friend of mine pointed out, "It's a juvenile tack to make fun of someone's word choice to redirect attention away from the point. It's childish."

Indeed.

[nab]

And furthermore, as a journalism professor friend of mine pointed out, "It's a juvenile tack to make fun of someone's word choice to redirect attention away from the point. It's childish."

Indeed.

Wait, what?  Stick to the subject of the argument without a safety net? 

Bullocks