Fox News at it again

[missypea]

LEWISTON - An obscure online parody of the recent hate incident at the Lewiston Middle School - a parody reported as news on a national Fox broadcast Tuesday - launched an immediate avalanche of angry phone calls and ugly e-mails to the school system...........

Wessler, who talked to a Texas CBS affiliate and two Fox affiliates Tuesday and has been scheduled to appear on another Fox broadcast today, said, "This kind of distortion by reputable news outlets is destructive."

"Fox has figured out, from the calls we've gotten, that they've made a big mistake," Wessler said.

SunJournal.com - Ham report stirs 'mess'

Faux Noise is getting some headlines today for reporting a parody as "news". Think Progress also has the video of the "news report" you can see here:

Think Progress » Fox News Sinks To New Low, Repeatedly Reports Parody Story As Actual News

I can't stop laughing...this coming in the wake of Wednesday's night "Buying The War"

I can't wait to see what Jon Stewart does with those rascally reporters from Faux news..lmao!!

 

[Ikari]

Since when does the press check its facts anymore?

 

[danarhea]

LEWISTON - An obscure online parody of the recent hate incident at the Lewiston Middle School - a parody reported as news on a national Fox broadcast Tuesday - launched an immediate avalanche of angry phone calls and ugly e-mails to the school system...........

Wessler, who talked to a Texas CBS affiliate and two Fox affiliates Tuesday and has been scheduled to appear on another Fox broadcast today, said, "This kind of distortion by reputable news outlets is destructive."

"Fox has figured out, from the calls we've gotten, that they've made a big mistake," Wessler said.

SunJournal.com - Ham report stirs 'mess'

Faux Noise is getting some headlines today for reporting a parody as "news". Think Progress also has the video of the "news report" you can see here:

Think Progress » Fox News Sinks To New Low, Repeatedly Reports Parody Story As Actual News

I can't stop laughing...this coming in the wake of Wednesday's night "Buying The War"

I can't wait to see what Jon Stewart does with those rascally reporters from Faux news..lmao!!

Welcome to the board, Missy, and I hope your stay here is long, and you become part of the "family" here. But this is VERY important. The rules for breaking news say that you have to post the actual article name as the title. So please read the rules and follow them, and once again, welcome aboard.

 

[Gibberish]

Well at least Fox News proved they are "fair and balanced".

They show a real news stories for those that watch for news and show parody news stories for those that watch for comedic relief. That's pretty fair and balanced if you ask me.

 

[missypea]

Welcome to the board, Missy, and I hope your stay here is long, and you become part of the "family" here. But this is VERY important. The rules for breaking news say that you have to post the actual article name as the title. So please read the rules and follow them, and once again, welcome aboard.

So sorry! Is there a way that I can edit it?

 

[danarhea]

So sorry! Is there a way that I can edit it?

Not now, but I am sure a mod will take care of it eventually.

 

[1069]

Not now, but I am sure a mod will take care of it eventually.

Or they could leave it as is, and move it to a different board.
The other boards don't have as many rules as "Breaking News".

 

[Hatuey]

Well at least Fox News proved they are "fair and balanced".

They show a real news stories for those that watch for news and show parody news stories for those that watch for comedic relief. That's pretty fair and balanced if you ask me.

You gotta love it when people get their news from obscure websites.

 

[Binary_Digit]

The best part of the video was at the end.

"You know, I hope we're not being duped."

"We're not being duped, I've looked it up on a couple of different uh websites up there, from uh local papers."

 

[wonder cow]

Fox and others reported the information as fact without checking.

Imagine that. Someone let me know if they ever “fact check” a “credible” report about WMD’s.

 

[Stinger]

"The Sun Journal published a story about the incident on April 19 as the lead article on the front page. After Monday's Associated Content posting, the altered story moved rapidly across personal and news sites and was discussed with outrage."
SunJournal.com - Ham report stirs 'mess'




The incident happened didn't it?
FOX wasn't the only media to report it.
Fox says it's story was based on the original Sunjournal story not the fake one.
"A spokesman for Fox News Channel told NEWS CENTER that she was checking to see if any content from the parody article aired on the Fox and Friends morning show, but said to her knowledge the story was based on the original Sun Journal report on the incident."
http://www.wlbz2.com/news/article.aspx?storyid=58751

Details seem sketchy. Why do you just target Fox for reporting the story? Do you have any links to the actual Fox story, a video of it, or something?

AP says they may sue the Associated Content site for misrepresentation.

 

[Gibberish]

Details seem sketchy. Why do you just target Fox for reporting the story? Do you have any links to the actual Fox story, a video of it, or something?

YouTube - Fox and Friends presents ham sandwich satire as real news

I'm sure our partisian friends from the right would be so open-minded on the outcome and placing blame if CNN or MSNBC ran the story. :roll:

FoxNews is no different from CNN or MSNBC. They are all corporations providing a service to a specific market to make money with consumer specific advertisements.

 

[Stinger]

YouTube - Fox and Friends presents ham sandwich satire as real news

I'm sure our partisian friends from the right would be so open-minded on the outcome and placing blame if CNN or MSNBC ran the story. :roll:

I note that the impression is this was reported on FOX in the news broadcast. That is false. It was the morning show host, picking it up off the web, as many others did. Did you miss the part where they question the story and clearly say "we hope we aren't being duped" and I think you need to go and question the people who are claiming it was being reported as "hard news" it was Steve Duche THE WEATHER MAN who saw it on the web INCLUDING the original story by the Sun Journal. He stated at the end that the story is being originated by the local paper, that was true.

So what about the other news sources that reported it?

 

[Hatuey]

Did you miss the part where they question the story and clearly say "we hope we aren't being duped"

lol. you obviously didn't see the video

Here is how it went.

"I hope we're not being duped"

"We're not being duped I looked it up on a couple of different websites..."

 

[Stinger]

lol. you obviously didn't see the video

No obviously I did else I wouldn't have been able to cite the parts I did.

[/QUOTE] Here is how it went.

"I hope we're not being duped"

"We're not being duped I looked it up on a couple of different websites..."[/quote]

Which was the second time the veracity of the story had been mentioned in the segment. And they clearly note it is all across the internet and you left out the very last thing he said, which I noted previously. Why?

 

[wonder cow]

And they clearly note it is all across the internet

Are you serious Stinger?

FOX "news" slopped some crap up during their morning show, which you say is not news, which is not true really - these type of morning shows, like similar shows on other networks and local stations, are considered a mix of news and entertainment, and they reported the spoof as if it was real.

And the reason they did not know it was spoof nonsense is because:

And they clearly note it is all across the internet

They did not check it beyond a cursory review on the internets, which isn't anything unusual for FOX or the rest of network news and so called journalists now-a-days.

 

[Stinger]

Are you serious Stinger?

FOX "news" slopped some crap up during their morning show,

You do realize that Duche is the WEATHERMAN! That it was not the hard news portion of the show. That it was the entertainment part of the show and they were commenting on an INTERNET story going around. And they noted that that was what it was NOT a news story orginated by a FOX reporter. And several times during their conversation about it the cast doubt on it and said they would have to look into it.

which you say is not news, which is not true really - these type of morning shows, like similar shows on other networks and local stations, are considered a mix of news and entertainment, and they reported the spoof as if it was real.

They discussed it possible being a spoof.

And the reason they did not know it was spoof nonsense is because:

And since they weren't reporting it as NEWS they noted it was just a story on the internet, on lots of legitimate cites, but it just MAY be a spoof.

They did not check it beyond a cursory review on the internets,

It wasn't part of the news cast was it.

which isn't anything unusual for FOX or the rest of network news and so called journalists now-a-days.

Geez lighten up. Don't you know humor when you see it?

 

[Diuretic]

Fox is crap and that's well known, I think they've even given up trying to pretend they're not crap. Of course the owner, my ex-countryman (and you're welcome to him) Rupert Murdoch doesn't care because it's making money. Main thing is don't take Fox as a serious news outlet and everthing's fine.

Now just to be balanced I have to say they're not the only ones that can be sucked in.

Every few years the "mysterious story of the scuba diver found fully equipped but burned to death in a forest" will come up. It usually goes along the lines of the diver being found a great distance inland, burned to death in a forest fire. The breathtaking analysis is that he was accidentally scooped up in a water scoop by a firefighting aircraft (fixed or rotary wing) and was dropped into the fire from the aircraft. I've read the story in two separate "quality" newspapers and one incident was in Provence in souther France and the other was in northern Greece on two separate occasions several years apart.

 

[Stinger]

Fox is crap and that's well known, I think they've even given up trying to pretend they're not crap. Of course the owner, my ex-countryman (and you're welcome to him) Rupert Murdoch doesn't care because it's making money. Main thing is don't take Fox as a serious news outlet and everthing's fine.

Actually if you and others around here listened to them more you'd be better informed of both sides of the issues and save the rest of us a lot of time have to cite and post research and facts the other MSM networks refuse to report.

 

[Diuretic]

Actually if you and others around here listened to them more you'd be better informed of both sides of the issues and save the rest of us a lot of time have to cite and post research and facts the other MSM networks refuse to report.

I watch Fox occasionally. Since I don't live in the States I don't get the other corporate-owned mainstream media. I do get CNN and BBC on cable and I do watch them. I listen to BBC World Service radio and selected current affairs programmes from Deutsche-Welle (English service), Radio Netherlands (again English service). I watch commercial news here as well as the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (the other ABC) television news and current affairs. I watch the Australian Special Broadcasting Service world news. I read the local (News Ltd.) newpaper and I read the national (News Ltd) newspaper. I read The Sydney Morning Herald online and I read The Age (Melbourne) online. I read the NY Times online and the Globe and Mail (Canada) and I get an email edition of the Toronto Star every afternoon and I read that. I think I get a varied diet of information.

 

[Stinger]

I watch Fox occasionally. Since I don't live in the States I don't get the other corporate-owned mainstream media. I do get CNN and BBC on cable and I do watch them. I listen to BBC World Service radio and selected current affairs programmes from Deutsche-Welle (English service), Radio Netherlands (again English service). I watch commercial news here as well as the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (the other ABC) television news and current affairs. I watch the Australian Special Broadcasting Service world news. I read the local (News Ltd.) newpaper and I read the national (News Ltd) newspaper. I read The Sydney Morning Herald online and I read The Age (Melbourne) online. I read the NY Times online and the Globe and Mail (Canada) and I get an email edition of the Toronto Star every afternoon and I read that. I think I get a varied diet of information.

Who do you watch more of CNN or FOX?

 

[wonder cow]

Stinger, please...

They discussed it as a spoof once it aired because they then realized how ridiculous it was. But they aired it several times and several times commented that it was real.

It wasn't part of the news cast was it.

Considering that FOX is a 24 hour a day news channel, I would say yes.

Geez lighten up. Don't you know humor when you see it?

Yes, I do. But FOX didn't report it as a spoof, they reported it as real. Some clown producer was trying to fill air time, he found this story on the internet and ran with it without checking it. It had real consequences for those people involved in the actual incident.

And generally this speaks to the current state of journalism where reporters and producers print and air rumors and stories based on unreliable sources.

You do of course recall the Dan Rather incident? Another example of a lack of fact checking and piss poor partisan journalism.

I've just had enough of it, tis all.

 

[Stinger]

Stinger, please...

They discussed it as a spoof once it aired because they then realized how ridiculous it was. But they aired it several times and several times commented that it was real.

Wonder, please.................

It was the WEATHERMAN and not the hard news broadcast and they repeatedly questioned the veracity of the story.

Yes, I do. But FOX didn't report it as a spoof, they reported it as real.

The video's prove you wrong.

And generally this speaks to the current state of journalism where reporters

Again you resort to misrepresenting it. Duche is the WEATHERMAN not a jouranlist, not a news reporter and the story several times was questioned. What they were reporting was that it was all over the interent, was that true or not?

You do of course recall the Dan Rather incident?

If you are comparing Dan Rather and his 60 Minutes investigative reporting with a WEATHERMAN doing the morning show saying, "Hey looks what's all or the internet this morning" you have just past the point of absurdity.

That you guys have to stretch this far to try and inpunge FOX because they give a more balance view of the news which means they don't cover up for the left is hilarious. :lamo

 

[wonder cow]

It aired 7 or 8 times.

What possible difference does it make if the weatherman did the intro to the clip? What, is Tiki Barber more credible, cripes..

That you guys have to stretch this far to try and inpunge FOX

:monkey

Completely unnecessary for me to trash FOX news. They do it to themselves with their unprincipled, slop journalism and their brazen whorish like sell out to one very narrow interpretation of American conservatism. It's hard for me to even refer to it as an ideology. Ideologies usually have some kind of consistency.

 

[Stinger]

It aired 7 or 8 times.

What possible difference does it make if the weatherman did the intro to the clip? What, is Tiki Barber more credible, cripes..

Neither are news reporters and they were clear on the air that it was not a confirmed story, they were reporting the fact it was all over the web.

You don't know the difference between reporting hard news and discussing events?

Completely unnecessary for me to trash FOX news.

Then why do you have to try so hard.

They do it to themselves with their unprincipled, slop journalism and their brazen whorish like sell out to one very narrow interpretation of American conservatism.

Actually they have the best reporting of all the cable and MSM outlets, that's why they are so successful, of course reporting both sides grates against the left that is used to only having their side aired.