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09-08-2010, 10:23 PM
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It's a shame, the way I see it, most, if not all, mainstream news sources are politically biased, selective in their sharing of information, and prone to making assumptions without thorough investigation. FOX and CNN are no exception, regardless of what is believed their varying degree of guilt may be -- though the respective sides would generally disagree, respectively. However, it's absurd to claim that all stories presented from either program are false for this reason. Information is information, and it usually doesn't come completely refined when conveyed through another party. Personal methods should be taken to determine the quality of information. To immediately label any body of information as particularly poor from a source similar to others solely because of the name that represents it... doesn't seem wise. But that's my opinion. I won't continue. I've digressed enough. |
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09-08-2010, 10:38 PM
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Here's how they do it: Man is Muslim Man kills family Man flees country before he is apprehended. That's where the story should end, but then they ask the question: Could it be that government officials allowed this man to escape apprehension simply because they didn't want to stir up trouble with the Muslim community?!? There is as much reason to pose this question as there is to ask whether his escape was assisted by UFOs. But what they do is plant a seed in the heads of the viewers, and then feed it and feed it and fertilize it until 40% of the country thinks the president is a Muslim. Quote:
Your second sources is a very long article, but no where in the article does it mention that the government assisted or allowed the father's escape. That's the FOX News "twist". |
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09-08-2010, 11:00 PM
Another thing about FOX that we can't forget is back during the Bush v.s Gore election. They hadn't even finished counting all the ballots and then here comes fox saying that bush was the winner. That then led to othe news agencies reporting the same thing. And more recently with the thing about Sheryl Sherrod, The first place to call her a racist was fox. And they made that assumption on a video that was a few minutes long that was taken from a long speech. And Bill O'Reilly is way too biased.
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09-08-2010, 11:07 PM
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I placed the those links just to show that FOX was not the only news group that covered it. Plus I RANDOMLY picked them. It was to prove a point that all the stuff that FOX reports and just something made up completly (like some people strongly believe and appear to be stating). Every major news group does it, its just FOX seems to have a worse reputation about it than others. Why do the news groups do it? because it brings ratings. Thats probably why this Rev. is getting so much news media. It brings their ratings up. |
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09-08-2010, 11:14 PM
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My statement was a reply to steamboat as he defended Fox News by refering to CNN and other news groups hence I did not mean that every single news Fox makes is without checking for facts, with that said if you find out that they have made some news that hasn't been checked would it be wise to continue watching Fox News? even if one didn't know that but knows that they are stretching it and/or opinions are heavily biased why would you continue watch it? If I get the time I'll try surf the net for you and dig it up but I remember one that should be in youtube which I found a little funny as lot of gamers rage over it... their news covering over mass effect game which they ended up retracting. yes yes end fire |
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09-08-2010, 11:35 PM
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It's sad too say that it's true,ratings are all some people care about. Why can't they focus on getting the truth out rather than try to promote their own agenda. |
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09-09-2010, 12:19 AM
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That's called yellow journalism, and goes against the pillars of those who study journalism and call themselves reporters or journalists. The idea that the government would be involved in this man's flee out of the country was introduced by FOX News. No one told them that. Read your second source...a 9 page article from a Dallas newspaper. In 9 pages not once did they bring up the idea of him getting help from anyone when he fled the country right after committing the crime. So what started as a story about an Egyptian man killing his daughters for dating American boys has been twisted into an anti-government story. Is that what you call news? Quote:
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09-09-2010, 06:27 AM
FOX news is a joke.
Here is a documentary on the organization called "Outfoxed" OUTFOXED : Rupert Murdoch's War on Journalism Also one of the biggest lies that I will never forget was a lie told by FOX news. Remember the whole "Obama was raised in an extremist Islamic style school in Indonesia!" incident? The Bush V Gore election result was bogus too as mentioned earlier |
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09-09-2010, 06:51 AM
I remember watching OUTFOXED back in my high school economics class. I'm glad I watched it cause it really helped me to see what fox was really about. Although I prefere to watch CNN, they just seem more honest and they actually try to get all of the sides of a story.
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09-09-2010, 07:25 AM
Wow, so it means we shouldn't watch FOX?
Just kidding. But I hope this man die or be taken to custody before he bring the WWIII. Small thing make bigger thing happen. WWI happened because a Serbian student killed Austrian prince. I'm afraid that this small idiotic man will bring chaos to the world |
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