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Fox News: We show you stuff and let you figure it out.

FoxwellFoxwell Posts: 142
edited June 2007 in A Moving Train
Please go to this web-site and watch the clip...

http://www.alternet.org/blogs/video/53124/

Now, I'm not as quick to jump on the racist
conspiratory bandwagon as the reporter in this bit,
but--at the very least-- this is an example of
horrible, borderline criminal news gathering.

Jefferson's indictment is a pretty big story, and
you're telling me Fox News doesn't have someone,
anyone on staff who knows the difference between
Jefferson and Conyers?

By the by, whatever happened to Racist Conspiratory
Bandwagon...R.C.B? They were huge in the seventies:
opened for the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, did that
ill-conceived Country/Rock opera, and then just faded
away. Too bad...too bad.
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  • jlew24asujlew24asu Posts: 10,118
    they are two people who look alike right?
  • blackredyellowblackredyellow Posts: 5,889
    I'm not jumping on the racist bandwagon either, I just think that this is shoddy reporting/production, but then again that doesn't surprise me coming from them.
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  • FoxwellFoxwell Posts: 142
    jlew24asu wrote:
    they are two people who look alike right?

    Sure...but if it's my job to know the difference between two very influential and powerful men and report to the world that one of those men might be a criminal, then I'd better know the difference.

    It's not like making the same mistake at a cocktail party.
    "In the depths of winter, I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer." -- Albert Camus

    "He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that." -- John Stuart Mill

    "Mongo just a pawn in game of life." -- Mongo
  • jlew24asujlew24asu Posts: 10,118
    Foxwell wrote:
    Sure...but if it's my job to know the difference between two very influential and powerful men and report to the world that one of those men might be a criminal, then I'd better know the difference.

    It's not like making the same mistake at a cocktail party.
    much adu about nothing huh?
  • FoxwellFoxwell Posts: 142
    jlew24asu wrote:
    much adu about nothing huh?

    Yes, there are bigger issues to care about (cancer, our families, the Dodgers) but this seems to be emblematic of a larger problem: sloppy journalism...and not just by Fox.

    Recently, another network (I believe it was NBC, but don't quote me) did a story on Floyd Landis' recent hearing regarding blood doping and the Tour de France; a bulk of the video featured Lance Armstrong even though Lance's name was mentioned but once in the three minute story. Granted, I'm hyper-sensitive when it comes to folks besmirching Lance's name, but it seemed as though the report was trying to passively link Lance and Floyd.

    Personally, I blame the competitiveness of the "twenty-four hour news cycle."

    It seems as though the movie The Paper was a harbinger: report it today regardless of accuracy; we can always apologize tomorrow.


    On a totally different note: I liked what I saw on http://www.chicagophotoshop.com :)
    "In the depths of winter, I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer." -- Albert Camus

    "He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that." -- John Stuart Mill

    "Mongo just a pawn in game of life." -- Mongo
  • jlew24asujlew24asu Posts: 10,118
    Foxwell wrote:
    Yes, there are bigger issues to care about (cancer, our families, the Dodgers) but this seems to be emblematic of a larger problem: sloppy journalism...and not just by Fox.
    yea I agree.
    Foxwell wrote:
    Recently, another network (I believe it was NBC, but don't quote me) did a story on Floyd Landis' recent hearing regarding blood doping and the Tour de France; a bulk of the video featured Lance Armstrong even though Lance's name was mentioned but once in the three minute story. Granted, I'm hyper-sensitive when it comes to folks besmirching Lance's name, but it seemed as though the report was trying to passively link Lance and Floyd.
    i'm sure we can come up with examples all day. I like c-span. most thinks its boring but I just cant stand news reporters.
    Foxwell wrote:
    Personally, I blame the competitiveness of the "twenty-four hour news cycle."
    this is a good point.

    Foxwell wrote:
    On a totally different note: I liked what I saw on http://www.chicagophotoshop.com :)
    hehe thanks. its completely unbiased :rolleyes: for a love of one particular great city!
  • normnorm Posts: 31,146
    Foxwell wrote:
    It seems as though the movie The Paper was a harbinger: report it today regardless of accuracy; we can always apologize tomorrow.


    i love that movie....:).....as for the topic....if anyone is watching fox, cnn, e! for news you are one poorly informed person....
  • SundaySilenceSundaySilence Posts: 536
    Don't forget this one:

    "repeatedly...the most watched show on FOX News has now labeled the former Republican Congressman Mark Foley, who is in the middle of a sexual predator scandal...—a Democrat."

    http://www.crooksandliars.com/2006/10/04/bill-oreilly-labels-rep-foley-a-democrat/
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