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Fox News at it again

I wondered when they'd get to it.

Here it is:

Who is Usama Rooting For?

Who does Usama bin Laden want to be the next president? More people think the terrorist leader wants Obama to win (30 percent) than think he wants Clinton (22 percent) or McCain (10 percent). Another 18 percent says it doesn’t matter to bin Laden and 20 percent are unsure

FOXNews.com - FOX News Poll: Obama Has Slim Edge Over McCain, Half Would Never Vote for Clinton - Polls | AP Polls | Gallup Poll | Opinion Polls


Fox Mantra: The Dems will get you killed

:screwy
 
Fox News has been around ten years, and it is amazing to watch the liberals squirm. They somehow believe that if a conservative point of view even appears in the media that that media is biased. So now they know how we conservatives have felt all these years, times ten.

Fox's most popular show, O'Reilly, has only about 2 million viewers. Yet liberals act as if that overshadows their total domination of the networks, the entertainment industry and virtually all of the major newspaper and magazines in America. It shows a tremendous paranoia on their part.

Yet why have they not been able to nail Fox on false reporting (or Limbaugh either) a la New York Times, Dan Rather etc.?
(Answer: Because conservatives are more honest and more thorough by nature.)

I like to think of a giant elephant cringing in the corner at the sight of a mouse, which is the way the media see Fox News. What it really shows is the mental meltdown that liberals are facing since they lost their media monopoly.

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Yet why have they not been able to nail Fox on false reporting (or Limbaugh either) a la New York Times, Dan Rather etc.?
(Answer: Because conservatives are more honest and more thorough by nature.)

Not really. Fox News and conservatives like "Limbruger" have been busted for twisted and false reporting, not to mention racist, xenophobic and anti semitic and anti muslim rants.

The difference between the Dan Rather case and Fox News almost daily twisting of facts and bias reporting, is the power of conservative media in the US.

Conservative media are very vocal, and very well connected in political and business circles. This combined has been succesfull to "muddy the waters" on so many cases that we today have large number of people actually believing that Saddam was behind 9/11.

If anyone even brings up inaccuracies or bias in the reporting, said people get hammered by conservatives and usualy on a personal level. The final goal is always to take focus away from the issue and as often as possible target the messenger. The Dan Rather thing is a classic example in many ways. Sure the material he used was not up to par at best, but because of the hammering by conservatives, no media outlet has since even sniffled at Bush's military record or lack of it. Another example the recent McCain scandal. It was not long after the New York Times broke the story, that conservative media personalities (who funny enough were attacking McCain for a long time) got behind McCain and went on the attack, attacking the New York Times. Suddenly the story was not of McCains possible doing favors for lobbiests, but about why the New York Times broke the story and why the New York Times was bad.

Falsehoods, inaccuracies, big time spin and worse happen all the time on Fox News, but because of conservative tactics no media outlet is willing to call them on the facts. And when some does, they are laughed off or hounded for being "liberal biased", and that usualy shuts down any discussion in the US. Just look at the debates on these boards. Anyone linking evidence of bias, falsehoods or outright lies on Fox News are always hammered by the "usual suspects", usualy by claims that the "evidence" comes from a liberal website. And if that dont work, then they try to change the subject by attack other media outlets, and if its a European that brings up Fox News bias, then they go after the BBC and Al Jazerra. Happens every time and will probally happen in this thread after I post this.
 
Not really. Fox News and conservatives like "Limbruger" have been busted for twisted and false reporting, not to mention racist, xenophobic and anti semitic and anti muslim rants.

The difference between the Dan Rather case and Fox News almost daily twisting of facts and bias reporting, is the power of conservative media in the US.

Conservative media are very vocal, and very well connected in political and business circles. This combined has been succesfull to "muddy the waters" on so many cases that we today have large number of people actually believing that Saddam was behind 9/11.

If anyone even brings up inaccuracies or bias in the reporting, said people get hammered by conservatives and usualy on a personal level. The final goal is always to take focus away from the issue and as often as possible target the messenger. The Dan Rather thing is a classic example in many ways. Sure the material he used was not up to par at best, but because of the hammering by conservatives, no media outlet has since even sniffled at Bush's military record or lack of it. Another example the recent McCain scandal. It was not long after the New York Times broke the story, that conservative media personalities (who funny enough were attacking McCain for a long time) got behind McCain and went on the attack, attacking the New York Times. Suddenly the story was not of McCains possible doing favors for lobbiests, but about why the New York Times broke the story and why the New York Times was bad.

Falsehoods, inaccuracies, big time spin and worse happen all the time on Fox News, but because of conservative tactics no media outlet is willing to call them on the facts. And when some does, they are laughed off or hounded for being "liberal biased", and that usualy shuts down any discussion in the US. Just look at the debates on these boards. Anyone linking evidence of bias, falsehoods or outright lies on Fox News are always hammered by the "usual suspects", usualy by claims that the "evidence" comes from a liberal website. And if that dont work, then they try to change the subject by attack other media outlets, and if its a European that brings up Fox News bias, then they go after the BBC and Al Jazerra. Happens every time and will probally happen in this thread after I post this.

Well here you go again PeteEU. Last I saw you were claiming a trove of McCain related stories “over there” and when confronted to post this trove, you about faced and claimed you really had not looked into it that much. In other words, you could not produce even one of your claimed tales. It was noted, and so is the similarity to your last wild claim in this thread. I understand that many people can’t help but wear their biases on their sleeves; I also know that sometimes their intellectual honesty is right there too.

In this instance the comment you choose to respond to was a fairly simple one, both in construct and the ability to prove:
Yet why have they not been able to nail Fox on false reporting (or Limbaugh either) a la New York Times, Dan Rather etc.?”

While I find Nikatia’s contention that this is because “conservatives are more honest” to be simplistic, his point stands. For all of the crowing and hand wringing about big bad Fox News being such a source of bad journalism and reporting, where are the cases ala the now infamous Dan Rather situation? Please detail the stories you are talking about. I keep seeing silly folks at forums like this make claims about all the “big stories” Fox News lied about. When pressed to supply the links to these stories that Fox News has been caught and somehow found guilty of perpetrating, either by admission or investigation, no information is ever forth coming. One needs only an IQ above room temperature and the ability to search the public record to know why. None exist.

You make the claim that “falsehoods and inaccuracies” happen at Fox News “all the time”. Since according to you, this is a regular occurrence, surely you can locate some verified examples of this and demonstrate how they are different than all of the other media sources. You know the older ones with a much longer track record of the types of examples surely you can locate for us all to take in?

Because otherwise Pete, it is just another of your pie in the sky claims that you may yet claim you have “not looked into much”. In case you don’t know it, making claims about topics you have not looked into does not make you appear very smart or well informed. Rather the opposite.

I don’t really care to challenge the rest of your post, as it reads like run of the mill internet hyper speculation/fantasy couched in broadly ignorant generalizations. And might I say falsehoods and inaccuracies too? Opinion pieces and blogs are not “evidence” of Fox doing anything wrong. Admission that the story was bad both from Dan Rather and the Network president are. So tell us all about those horrid public cases of Fox News getting themselves into a Dan Rather situation? Or submit the personal opinions of die hard left wing “websites” who don’t like Fox News, even though they can’t point to a single situation that Fox has gotten themselves into, oh like say CBS and CNN, say with their Baghdad Bureau Chief?

IMO the whole Fox News is insert charge here arguments are among the most easily debunked idiot’s rant on the internet. :doh
 
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Well here you go again PeteEU. Last I saw you were claiming a trove of McCain related stories “over there” and when confronted to post this trove, you about faced and claimed you really had not looked into it that much. In other words, you could not produce even one of your claimed tales. It was noted, and so is the similarity to your last wild claim in this thread. I understand that many people can’t help but wear their biases on their sleeves; I also know that sometimes their intellectual honesty is right there too.

What are you refering too? Or is it just an attempt to attack the poster and divert attention away from Fox News?

In this instance the comment you choose to respond to was a fairly simple one, both in construct and the ability to prove:
Yet why have they not been able to nail Fox on false reporting (or Limbaugh either) a la New York Times, Dan Rather etc.?”

While I find Nikatia’s contention that this is because “conservatives are more honest” to be simplistic, his point stands. For all of the crowing and hand wringing about big bad Fox News being such a source of bad journalism and reporting, where are the cases ala the now infamous Dan Rather situation? Please detail the stories you are talking about. I keep seeing silly folks at forums like this make claims about all the “big stories” Fox News lied about. When pressed to supply the links to these stories that Fox News has been caught and somehow found guilty of perpetrating, either by admission or investigation, no information is ever forth coming. One needs only an IQ above room temperature and the ability to search the public record to know why. None exist.

As I stated, there is plenty information about Fox News and its missdeeds. BUT every time someone links them, then some pro Fox News person starts to slam the source, usualy by painting it as a "Liberal" site and that ends that discussion.

You make the claim that “falsehoods and inaccuracies” happen at Fox News “all the time”. Since according to you, this is a regular occurrence, surely you can locate some verified examples of this and demonstrate how they are different than all of the other media sources. You know the older ones with a much longer track record of the types of examples surely you can locate for us all to take in?

Just goto Mediamatters.org. There are plenty of examples of Fox News, twisting the facts, bias and worse. But of course you will never accept mediamatters.org because its "a liberal" site. How about the Guardian or the Uks Ofcom regulators?

Because otherwise Pete, it is just another of your pie in the sky claims that you may yet claim you have “not looked into much”. In case you don’t know it, making claims about topics you have not looked into does not make you appear very smart or well informed. Rather the opposite.

Okay lets look at one case. Mark Foley. How come Fox News was never critized or even fined for at first writing Mark Foley (D) on the TV screen? Not to mention several other "miss prints"... oddly enough almost always hitting political opponents to the Bush administration. Or the John Conyers picture problem?

What about O'Rielly using debunked biased right wing reports to prove his homophobic paranioa?

Media Matters - O'Reilly falsely claimed that heterosexual marriage in Sweden "declined drastically since gay marriage was legalized"

Hell O'Rielly should have a whole thread on his own.

Or how Fox News handled the Obama indonesian school? Its not long ago I saw Fox News still uses the term madrassa when the issue comes up.

I don’t really care to challenge the rest of your post, as it reads like run of the mill internet hyper speculation/fantasy couched in broadly ignorant generalizations. And might I say falsehoods and inaccuracies too? Opinion pieces and blogs are not “evidence” of Fox doing anything wrong. Admission that the story was bad both from Dan Rather and the Network president are. So tell us all about those horrid public cases of Fox News getting themselves into a Dan Rather situation?


Lets see a Dan Rather Situation.

Fox News apologises for Kerry fabrication | Media | The Guardian

So Fox News admitted that one of its own made up slanderous quotes against Kerry. Yet we always hear about the "Dan Rather" story, and he was only duped by the evidence.. he did not even make it up. I love how Fox News excused it with basicly "we were tired".

Or how about Bill O'Rielly and his so called boycot of French goods.

Media Matters - FOX's O'Reilly fabricated evidence of success of purported boycott

O'REILLY: ...they've lost billions of dollars in France according to "The Paris Business Review."

No such publication exists. Again making things up. The funny part during O'Rielly's boycot period, French exports to the US rose according to offical numbers from the US goverment.

Or how about John Gibson.

Standards Cases - Upheld cases | Ofcom

Fox News accepted that Andrew Gilligan had not actually said the words that John Gibson appeared to attribute to him.

Here again a Fox News "reporter" basicly made stuff up to slam a competitior or political enemy. Hell his comments are still on the Fox News website.

Thats at least 3 situations where Fox News has been caught in making up stuff directly. At least Dan Rather did not make the document that he thought was geniune, he just used it.

Or submit the personal opinions of die hard left wing “websites” who don’t like Fox News, even though they can’t point to a single situation that Fox has gotten themselves into, oh like say CBS and CNN, say with their Baghdad Bureau Chief?

Well when people like you and other Fox News lovers, paint any site that is critical of Fox News as "left wing" or "liberal" then there cant be any evidence out there that will satisfy you. You comments here clearly prove my points. I also bet that the links I have provided so far will not meet your "standard" of proof because they dont come from right wing friendly sites.

IMO the whole Fox News is insert charge here arguments are among the most easily debunked idiot’s rant on the internet. :doh

Of course its easily "debunked" because either pro Fox News people attack the critics, call the "proof" for lefty liberal bias crap or worse, or try to divert attention by changing the subject.. something you attempted in your comments. Or the classic one... "thats an opinion piece, not news" comment.
 
Just goto Mediamatters.org. There are plenty of examples of Fox News, twisting the facts, bias and worse. But of course you will never accept mediamatters.org because its "a liberal" site. How about the Guardian or the Uks Ofcom regulators?

Pete!

How dare you use Media Matters as a legitimate source. Don't you know they use actual quotes from people on that site? Have you lost your mind, man?

;)
 
What are you refering too? Or is it just an attempt to attack the poster and divert attention away from Fox News?

“As I stated, I have not looked much into it.”
http://www.debatepolitics.com/break...ccain-lobbyist-scandal-12.html#post1057539254

As I stated, there is plenty information about Fox News and its missdeeds. BUT every time someone links them, then some pro Fox News person starts to slam the source, usualy by painting it as a "Liberal" site and that ends that discussion.

When these kinds of situations occur, the weight of the falsehoods reported comes to light. Said sources are forced to admit their mistakes. The world pays attention, verification occurs from numerous credible sources as well as from the source of same; via apology or retraction.

You can’t point to a single serious instance where Fox News has been called before the world to account for, as you claim, fabricated lies, slander and liable. Silly of you to think that the weight of reality and the public record would not be brought into the matter.

Just goto Mediamatters.org. There are plenty of examples of Fox News, twisting the facts, bias and worse. But of course you will never accept mediamatters.org because its "a liberal" site. How about the Guardian or the Uks Ofcom regulators?

You point to a George Soros owned source as saying Rupert Murdoch and Fox News are biased? “Media Matters” as your source won’t do anything more than provide exactly the “type” of bias you are claiming Fox News guilty of.

Okay lets look at one case. Mark Foley. How come Fox News was never critized or even fined for at first writing Mark Foley (D) on the TV screen? Not to mention several other "miss prints"... oddly enough almost always hitting political opponents to the Bush administration. Or the John Conyers picture problem?
What about O'Rielly using debunked biased right wing reports to prove his homophobic paranioa?

Media Matters - O'Reilly falsely claimed that heterosexual marriage in Sweden "declined drastically since gay marriage was legalized"

Hell O'Rielly should have a whole thread on his own.

Or how Fox News handled the Obama indonesian school? Its not long ago I saw Fox News still uses the term madras when the issue comes up.

Bill O’Rielly is not Fox News anymore than Chris Matthews is CNN. Both report news stories and then offer their take on them. Hello McFly?


Obama did attend a madras learning school in Indonesia. Is it relevant? NIMO. A particular pundit offered his “opinion” on what it means. They get paid to do so; there is no confusion about this basic fact of life. Well except for those unfortunate victims of synaptic backfire in the brainpan.

Lets see a Dan Rather Situation.

So Fox News admitted that one of its own made up slanderous quotes against Kerry. Yet we always hear about the "Dan Rather" story, and he was only duped by the evidence.. he did not even make it up. I love how Fox News excused it with basicly "we were tired".

Again, let us take a look at your intellectual work product here, using only your own source as reference.

Fox News correspondent Carl Cameron made a really dumb joke abut Kerry.

Didn't my nails and cuticles look great? What a good debate! I'm metrosexual - he's a cowboy." Women voters, he purportedly added, "should like me! I do manicures."

He was reprimanded and the Network apologized for this idiotic gaffe that nobody took seriously and was featured in an opinion piece on the web.

Dan Rather went ahead and reported a story in the national evening news, as a bona fide news piece, that his own editors, staff and legal department warned him was questionable at best. Despite the fact that his editors and advisors at the network advised the story not be reported on yet, they supported Rather when he went ahead with it. This is why they had to apologize as a network and news organization.

You’ll need something a lot less feeble here.

Or how about Bill O'Rielly and his so called boycot of French goods.

While yet another demonstration of your inability to grasp the concept of OP/ED commentary is unnecessary at this juncture, it is appreciated for redundant illustrative effects.

No such publication exists. Again making things up. The funny part during O'Rielly's boycot period, French exports to the US rose according to offical numbers from the US goverment.

I said you could not point to an example of Fox News having got itself into a Dan Rather/CBS type of situation. How desperate of you pretend otherwise. Clearly Fox News is not the only tired party here.

Or how about John Gibson.
Standards Cases - Upheld cases | Ofcom

Here again a Fox News "reporter" basicly made stuff up to slam a competitior or political enemy. Hell his comments are still on the Fox News website.

OK, let us again refer only to your own linked sources. In this case, the first words in the article you point to would clue even a mildly negligent researcher into a simple fact.

My Word” is a personal comment section at the end of an hour-long news programme called The Big Story. On the day of the publication of the Hutton Inquiry Report into the circumstances surrounding the death of Dr David Kelly (which contained criticism of the BBC), John Gibson, the programme anchor, delivered his regular editorial opinion piece.

Thats at least 3 situations where Fox News has been caught in making up stuff directly. At least Dan Rather did not make the document that he thought was geniune, he just used it.

So far your claim in this post is that the following are representative of Fox News as slanderous, libelous and fabricated reporting. They hardly reflect a very thoughtful or well informed and educated adult mindset.

1. Fox News displayed a “D” for democrat chevron during a single sequence in one reporting of the Mark Foley scandal. Foley, as corrected later and ever since, has had a “R” chevron associated with his name.

2. Bill O’Rielly allegedly falsely claimed that heterosexual marriage declined in Sweden after gay marriage was legalized during his nightly political commentary show.

3. Fox News reported the fact that Mr. Obama attended a madras learning school in Indonesia and a political commentator offered up his opinion on the matter.

4. Carl Cameron of Fox News made a metro-sexual joke in a political OP/ED commentary blog on the Fox News Website. He was reprimanded by the network and apologies for the remark were offered by both parties.

This is what you think compares to the Dan Rather/CBS Bush military story?

Dan Rather aired a story his own advisors, legal department and research assistants warned him was questionable at best. He not only used a document he knew was not well vetted, his superiors lacked the integrity to stop him from doing so. The story was so widely disproved and the sources so obviously hackneyed that the rest of the media jumped on it. In fact, Rather is suing CBS right now over this issue. Basically saying, if you knew I was reporting bovine scatology, then why did you not stop me?

Well when people like you and other Fox News lovers, paint any site that is critical of Fox News as "left wing" or "liberal" then there cant be any evidence out there that will satisfy you. You comments here clearly prove my points. I also bet that the links I have provided so far will not meet your "standard" of proof because they dont come from right wing friendly sites.

I’m hardly a “Fox News Lover”. My comments and challenges here should clearly prove to you that you can’t just drop into an internet forum and regurgitate ideological and common place generalizations and intellectual twaddle and not get challenged on it. Chalk up another broadly ignorant stereotyipification to your tab.

Of course its easily "debunked" because either pro Fox News people attack the critics, call the "proof" for lefty liberal bias crap or worse, or try to divert attention by changing the subject.. something you attempted in your comments. Or the classic one... "thats an opinion piece, not news" comment.

As you offered only the fact that you don’t have a grasp of the differences between OP/ED and opinion matters and news stories, I suggest you look at the writing on the wall.

End of the day you refuse to intellectually acknowledge the differences between hard line news reporting and OP/ED commentary. So you complain vociferously that you keep getting told about the differences between hard line news reporting and OP/ED commentary.

Which is a lot like standing in a puddle of water, sticking an aluminum paper clip into an electric wall socket and complaining about the sparkly shocky tingles that are traveling up and down your arm.
 
Today Fox News about the economy

The topic was about if Obama and Clinton were "making worst the economy" by saying in their speeches that the current US economy is in crisis.:shock:

The review of this topic was focused in the current loses of jobs, the mortgage situation of lots of people, the rising of gasoline prices, the weak dollar, and more.

Most points of views were practically correct by arguing that the economy is not doing well but it is not the end of the world. The economy has fluctuations, and these "economic waves" were discovered by a guy -I think he was- from Russia, I'm not sure. But a stable economy is an event that doesn't exist, it always has ups and downs.

THE PROBLEM:

The didn't even mentioned the national debt of trillions of dollars.


Why they avoid to talk about it?

Right now US is like the members of a medium income family who use their credit cards like crazy, and, of course their situation is fine, they have a new luxury car, they have a big flat screen TV almost from wall to wall in their living room, they have business running, but...don't they have to pay their debt somehow someday?

Because US is "the US", is this enough to say that China will never ask for their loans anymore? Is US free of paying back what it owes?

Of course that credit helps you a lot to progress and reach economical goals in your life, but you know that if you abuse your credit, you will find yourself in a big trouble. The current administration has asked for so many loans that the current economy is based in credit and not so in merit of a good structure capable to make a solid or sound US economy.

If economy is to be discussed by candidates and TV commentators, the solution of a solid recovery is not only by creating jobs and selling goods, but by making the national debt payments so they won't accumulate to the point that inflation in sudden and painfull steps must by imposed to start making them.

Nobody wants to talk about the national debt, and actually, "this is the real problem".
 
Re: Today Fox News about the economy

Nobody wants to talk about the national debt, and actually, "this is the real problem".
Well, nobody wants to talk about the national debt in a thread devoted to Fox News, maybe you should go back and read the opening post?

I'm thrilled to talk national debt with you, maybe you can explain how the current POTUS candidates are going to pay for a national health care and reduce our debt and deficit spending. But you'll have to start your own thread for that.

This thread has been about Fox News from the opening post of the thread, not the national debt. Where you get the idea otherwise is anyone’s guess. Not from this thread.:confused:
 
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Ahh I see. As I stated in that thread (or attempted) and which was ignored by the critics, was that IF McCain had done favors for this lobbiest, then he is a freaking hypocrit. Now I had not and still have not looked much into it, but base my opinion on 5+ different news sources comments on the article, and the scandal it self. These news sources are as diverse as NBC to Al Jazerra. Now if people cant accept the word IF in my comments, well thats not my problem.

When these kinds of situations occur, the weight of the falsehoods reported comes to light. Said sources are forced to admit their mistakes. The world pays attention, verification occurs from numerous credible sources as well as from the source of same; via apology or retraction.

You can’t point to a single serious instance where Fox News has been called before the world to account for, as you claim, fabricated lies, slander and liable. Silly of you to think that the weight of reality and the public record would not be brought into the matter.

Hahah not on Fox News as I have proven several times. O'Rielly especially never says "sorry". That you and others dont accept this proof aint my problem, as the proof is more than often backed up by direct transcripts, audio and even video evidence.

You point to a George Soros owned source as saying Rupert Murdoch and Fox News are biased? “Media Matters” as your source won’t do anything more than provide exactly the “type” of bias you are claiming Fox News guilty of.

Ahh the classic denial and attacking the source begins I see. Excatly as I predidcted in my original comment.

Bill O’Rielly is not Fox News anymore than Chris Matthews is CNN. Both report news stories and then offer their take on them. Hello McFly?

O'Rielly is a face (if not key face) of Fox News. His opinions are a reflection of the attitude and opinions of Fox News. That goes for any reporters or anchors comments on any story, regardless if its an opinion show or a real news show. If Fox News allows O'Rielly to use false and fabricated facts, then this reflects on how Fox News views such action.

Obama did attend a madras learning school in Indonesia. Is it relevant? NIMO. A particular pundit offered his “opinion” on what it means. They get paid to do so; there is no confusion about this basic fact of life. Well except for those unfortunate victims of synaptic backfire in the brainpan.

Obama attended a public school in Indonesia. Indonesia is mostly muslim, so hence the school had most muslims in it. It was not a religious school aka a maddrass. Using the word maddrass to discribe what kind of school he went to is twisting the facts to such and extent that its slander and shows a clear bias against Obama.

Again, let us take a look at your intellectual work product here, using only your own source as reference.

Okay.

Fox News correspondent Carl Cameron made a really dumb joke abut Kerry. Didn't my nails and cuticles look great? What a good debate! I'm metrosexual - he's a cowboy." Women voters, he purportedly added, "should like me! I do manicures."

He was reprimanded and the Network apologized for this idiotic gaffe that nobody took seriously and was featured in an opinion piece on the web.

Now wait a minute. When a correspondent "makes a bad joke" based on fabricated information against a demorcrat who is running for president, then its can be excused?

Dan Rather went ahead and reported a story in the national evening news, as a bona fide news piece, that his own editors, staff and legal department warned him was questionable at best. Despite the fact that his editors and advisors at the network advised the story not be reported on yet, they supported Rather when he went ahead with it. This is why they had to apologize as a network and news organization.

You’ll need something a lot less feeble here.

Yes Dan Rather made a bad call, or if you may a bad joke against a republican running for president.

He did not however make stuff up, which the Fox guy did. He did take the evidence on its face value without serious looking at the source and he was seriously punished for it. The Fox News guy was not even fired for making stuff up, no instead Fox News excused it for being "a bad joke"! At least newspapers fire thier journalists that are caught in fabricating facts.. guess they have more intergrity than Fox News then.

While yet another demonstration of your inability to grasp the concept of OP/ED commentary is unnecessary at this juncture, it is appreciated for redundant illustrative effects.[/COLOR]

And again, O'Rielly is the face (one of them) of Fox News. His opinions and his usuage of facts are a direct reflection of Fox News. If he uses false or fabricated sources to prove his point, then he is fabricating news.

But it was expected you would come with one of the main talking points from Fox president Roger Ailes, to excuse open bias and fact fabrication of Fox News.

I said you could not point to an example of Fox News having got itself into a Dan Rather/CBS type of situation. How desperate of you pretend otherwise. Clearly Fox News is not the only tired party here.

I have. You just cant accept the facts. Not my problem.

OK, let us again refer only to your own linked sources. In this case, the first words in the article you point to would clue even a mildly negligent researcher into a simple fact.

My Word” is a personal comment section at the end of an hour-long news programme called The Big Story. On the day of the publication of the Hutton Inquiry Report into the circumstances surrounding the death of Dr David Kelly (which contained criticism of the BBC), John Gibson, the programme anchor, delivered his regular editorial opinion piece

He said it live on Fox News, else Ofcom would not have touched it. He is paid as an anchor of Fox News and anything he says is a reflection of the opinion or at best the attitude of Fox News. You excusing him by using the "editorial opinion piece" is nothing but a cop out.

So far your claim in this post is that the following are representative of Fox News as slanderous, libelous and fabricated reporting. They hardly reflect a very thoughtful or well informed and educated adult mindset.[/COLOR]
1. Fox News displayed a “D” for democrat chevron during a single sequence in one reporting of the Mark Foley scandal. Foley, as corrected later and ever since, has had a “R” chevron associated with his name.


It was only one of the more well known cases, but does it excuse the fact that this so called reputal news organisation suddenly miss labels a caption on a pedofile so that he goes from a Republican (the people the station openly backs) to a Democrat (the "enemy")? Hardly.

2. Bill O’Rielly allegedly falsely claimed that heterosexual marriage declined in Sweden after gay marriage was legalized during his nightly political commentary show.

Alleged? I saw it on TV. The transcripts are there. O'Rielly used a total debunked report to promote his homophobic agenda. For peak sake, the report he uses has statistical numbers that dont exist! You can goto the statistical offices of Sweden and Denmark (in english and online even) to get up to date statistics on exactly the issues he used as "proof".

3. Fox News reported the fact that Mr. Obama attended a madras learning school in Indonesia and a political commentator offered up his opinion on the matter.

Obama went to a public school in Indonesia, not a madras. The word madras is a negative word in the US and many parts of the west, because people associate it with terrorists training centers. Now had it been a religious school, then fine, but it was not. As for the political commentator crap.. again its a cop out.

4. Carl Cameron of Fox News made a metro-sexual joke in a political OP/ED commentary blog on the Fox News Website. He was reprimanded by the network and apologies for the remark were offered by both parties.

It was not a blog, it was made to look like a news story.

USATODAY.com - Fox News pulls reporter's item with fake Kerry quotes

I still love how Fox News excuses its actions because of fatigue.

This is what you think compares to the Dan Rather/CBS Bush military story?

Hello... Using fabricated and false facts to prove a story. But let me guess, Dan Rather had the balls to go up against your president, hence its much worse. Pathetic excuse.

Dan Rather aired a story his own advisors, legal department and research assistants warned him was questionable at best. He not only used a document he knew was not well vetted, his superiors lacked the integrity to stop him from doing so. The story was so widely disproved and the sources so obviously hackneyed that the rest of the media jumped on it. In fact, Rather is suing CBS right now over this issue. Basically saying, if you knew I was reporting bovine scatology, then why did you not stop me?

No the facts Dan Rather used were disproved, the story died because no one would touch it with a 1 hundred mile pole. Fact is Bush's "war record" has never been examined in detail, as quite a bit of paperwork has mysteriously disappeared.

I’m hardly a “Fox News Lover”. My comments and challenges here should clearly prove to you that you can’t just drop into an internet forum and regurgitate ideological and common place generalizations and intellectual twaddle and not get challenged on it. Chalk up another broadly ignorant stereotyipification to your tab.

Well considering how you openly defend Fox News with the same sterotypical talking points as "Fox News Lovers" then frankly you join them in that box.

As you offered only the fact that you don’t have a grasp of the differences between OP/ED and opinion matters and news stories, I suggest you look at the writing on the wall.

End of the day you refuse to intellectually acknowledge the differences between hard line news reporting and OP/ED commentary. So you complain vociferously that you keep getting told about the differences between hard line news reporting and OP/ED commentary.

Which is a lot like standing in a puddle of water, sticking an Aluminum paper clip into an electric wall socket and complaining about the sparkly shocky tingles that are traveling up and down your arm.
And you cant grasp the fact that there is no difference between and OP/ED matter and a new story, when lies, fabrication and twisting of facts are used in the story. Hiding behind the OP/ED talking point, first promoted by Fox News founder is just another excuse to not face the music so to say.

What you are basicly advocating is that its okay to make up stuff about people as long as its an OP/ED piece and not in the "news section" of the network. Does that mean that Fox News is 90% OP/ED then?
 
Oh who cares about truth and accuracy? Fiddle-dee-dee, I simply adore those little Asian babes, they really get me hot just before supper. Cosmetically, they just have to be number one. Wouldn't you agree? Let's take a vote. Who do you believe has the best hair style of the three major prime time network news casters? Isn't Larry King the most icky person on television? Don't yo just lo-v-v-v-e television?:joke:
 
Wow all that effort over Fox Comedy channel?

See it for the nonsense that it is and move on lol...
 
PeteEU,
So far you have claimed that Fox News has been “found guilty” of libel, slander and fabricating stories many times.

Yet you can’t point to one instance where Fox News has been found guilty of any of your claims.

You can only point to Media Matters and their allegations about Fox News. It says much that you have somehow managed to read their allegations about various pundits and comments they have made in their commentary and come away with a belief in your frankly idiotic claims. You even posted one inadvertent joke about “Fox News” that stated right in the first sentence that the comments came from a personal commentary.

Your claims thus far in this thread point only to allegations from Media Matters. Not allegations that support your claims either. So while you are whining about fabrication, libel, slander and bias, you are quoting one of the most well known and biased sources of the left wing out there.

And even YOUR bloody source does not make the claims YOU DO, nor does your own bloody source point to one instance where Fox News has “been found guilty” of anything by any body of jurisprudence at anytime in their ten year history.

You can only point to Media Matters and their accusations; in the real world they are called allegations. Your grasp of the legal ramifications of libel and slander is as nebulous as your grasp of news reporting and commentary.

Here let me help you with a couple of facts you remain ignorant of, despite the fact you are always batting around the words.

Libel
An untruthful statement about a person, published in writing or through broadcast media, that injures the person's reputation or standing in the community. Because libel is a tort (a civil wrong), the injured person can bring a lawsuit against the person who made the false statement. Libel is a form of defamation , as is slander (an untruthful statement that is spoken, but not published in writing or broadcast through the media).

Slander
A type of defamation. Slander is an untruthful oral (spoken) statement about a person that harms the person's reputation or standing in the community. Because slander is a tort (a civil wrong), the injured person can bring a lawsuit against the person who made the false statement. If the statement is made via broadcast media -- for example, over the radio or on TV -- it is considered libel, rather than slander, because the statement has the potential to reach a very wide audience.

Both libel and slander are legal findings, reached by a court of law. Not once has a single court case for either crime been brought against Fox News, likewise no court ruling for either charge has ever been made. So your claim that Fox News has been found “guilty many times” of each and that both occur everyday is complete bullshite. The kind of bullshite only the truly ignorant would make, much less keep trying to defend.

Media Matters, is in their own words…”a Web-based, not-for-profit, 501(c)(3) progressive research and information center dedicated to comprehensively monitoring, analyzing, and correcting conservative misinformation in the U.S. media.”

There is their bias right up front. They are no court of law; they are not recognized by any government or body of jurisprudence. Furthermore they are not devoted to anything but making allegations about news reporting by “conservative” media.

All they can do is make allegations, or they could file a court case if they really thought they had one. Otherwise they are just like all the “media watch dogs” out there who do the same thing to liberal media sources. I don’t waste my time pointing to either kind, much less fabricating outright lies and falsehoods like you do PeteEU. There is something so ironic about a person like you lying about “libel and slander” and braying like an mule about fabrication of facts, yet doing plenty of fabricating and dissembling at the same time.

You claimed you could prove Fox News guilty of libel, slander and fabricating stories out of thin air. Yet all you have been able to provide in this thread is:

1.Fox News displayed a “D” for democrat chevron during a single sequence in one reporting of the Mark Foley scandal. Foley, as corrected later and ever since, has had a “R” chevron associated with his name.

2. Bill O’Rielly allegedly falsely claimed that heterosexual marriage declined in Sweden after gay marriage was legalized during his nightly political commentary show.

3. Fox News reported the fact that Mr. Obama attended a madras learning school in Indonesia and a political commentator offered up his opinion on the matter.

4. Carl Cameron of Fox News made a metro-sexual joke in a political OP/ED commentary blog on the Fox News Website. He was reprimanded by the network and apologies for the remark were offered by both parties.

As I said earlier, your comments hardly reflect a very thoughtful or well informed and educated adult mindset. Where is the slander you were going to prove? The libel? The fabrication of whole stories? Did you lose your links to the cases like you did the John McCain ones from earlier that you knew all about, but had not looked into much?

Last but not least, shall we dub you Nostradamus? After all, you know ahead of time that your bullshite claims, and your biased source of allegation are going to be dismissed as bullshite claims from biased sources of allegation, nothing more. And you think this ability to predict you’ll be called out for your juvenile grasp of facts and your biased sources of allegation as “FACT” will be met with derision? My God, you’re a genius!

Curiously you have managed to ignore all information available about the other networks with a much longer history than Fox. By your “standards"’ (and available at your own source) all of the news media out there are even more guilty than Fox News. As they have been doing the same thing Fox does, day in and out, far longer than Fox. They all have anchors and they all have commentators and pundits. You’re so steeped in integrity that you have issues with……just Fox. For operating just like the rest have for decades. And you have no issue with the other sources that HAVE done as you claim.

Like I said from the start, the whole Fox News is insert charge here arguments are among the most easily debunked idiot’s rants on the internet.

Quick, before you jump back in that puddle of water and start playing with your paper clip and the electrical socket, predict you'll get shocked! Then you can crow about how you predicted people would call you stupid for doing something……stupid.

 
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Oh who cares about truth and accuracy? Fiddle-dee-dee, I simply adore those little Asian babes, they really get me hot just before supper. Cosmetically, they just have to be number one. Wouldn't you agree? Let's take a vote. Who do you believe has the best hair style of the three major prime time network news casters? Isn't Larry King the most icky person on television? Don't yo just lo-v-v-v-e television?

Clearly you have nothing intelligent to say on this topic, so troll elsewhere.


Wow all that effort over Fox Comedy channel?
See it for the nonsense that it is and move on lol...


It takes very little effort to debunk the tripe that Pete posted here. Well maybe that would be an effort for you, can’t say it was much of an effort for me.
 
And you cant grasp the fact that there is no difference between and OP/ED matter and a new story, when lies, fabrication and twisting of facts are used in the story. Hiding behind the OP/ED talking point, first promoted by Fox News founder is just another excuse to not face the music so to say.

What you are basically advocating is that it’s okay to make up stuff about people as long as it’s an OP/ED piece and not in the "news section" of the network. Does that mean that Fox News is 90% OP/ED then?

You have not proven any serious fabrications and twisting of the facts. Frankly every argument you make would indict all of the other mainstream media sources you don’t bother ranting about. The far older ones, the ones with bonda fide cases of libel, slander and all the adjectives you bandy about with nary a rational understanding of. But keep talking about the founder of Fox News while you point to Media Matters. Which was founded by whom? Oh wait, we should only point at right wing Fox and talk about their right wing owner and his holdings. Meanwhile, look look look at Media Matters!!! But no fair asking the same questions about them and their founder!!! No fair, don’t ya know I’m playing by mentally handicapped rules I am. :shock:

I’m not advocating a thing. I’m poking holes in your logic or lack thereof. I’m pointing at your intellectually dishonest and irrational complaints and calling them what they are. Naive and highly subjective with a strong does of outright self imposed ignorance. Yeah, you know the differences between OP/Ed and news reporting. You know that Fox News being the youngest of the media sources will have the fewest examples of your complaints. You know there are bona fide real cases that have been to court and you know of bad stories from other sources that had HUGE impact. But you’ll PRETEND you don’t recognize said for a list of reasons and a few truly feeble stabs at “examples” of this illicit journalism you are so worked up about. Just at Fox News.

If I’m advocating anything it is that posters making irrational and vacuous arguments like yours are a dime a dozen on the internet.

Here is why I advocate that.

I’m particularly impressed that you think the best nail you can hang anything on is the Carl Cameron story from 2004. You are correct; it was posted on the Fox News website in the “news” section. Suddenly you want to argue the differences between “news” and “opinion commentary” as if you know the difference between them and know that biased and opinionated commentary on “news” stories has been occurring for at least, what…a few hundred years now?

Great, let us do that then Pete.

Now that you’ve finally been able to place your internet finger upon one case where a complete bullshite story got posted, on the internet, I’d hate to not give it my full attention. And my LORD…what a case! Why the SIZE of it, the WEIGHT of it. It is awesome to behold.:doh

Like many I wondered if Carl and crew were drinking in the bullpen when they posted the piece. It was noticed immediately and pulled, then the Mea Culpas starting flowing from Cameron. Excuses made and all that jazz. Apologies offered and reprimands maid. Fox News slapped their reporter on his wrist and whoop tee doo.

In a world full of serious issues and serious well documented journalistic crimes, a fraking damn funny “metro sexual” joke or dozen on the internet aint ruffling my fathers. But then I’m not some rhetoric addled ideologue either.

This supposed “Fox News Lover” has spent time right here in this forum helping debunk many of Aquapub’s threads from Limbaugh to Fox News. I guess I’m just one of those one in a million right wing Fox loving nuts that helps recognized left wingers at this website poo poo on that which he loves. Right.:spin:

So there you are on record as not being able to differentiate between news reporting and news commentary; until it suits your wafer thin purposes to do so. You appear utterly unaware of the recent history of journalism over just the last few decades in addition to your other OP/ED issue. You’ve got what now? An errant “R” or “D” and some political commentary? And you’ll raise me a Carl Cameron/John Kerry Metro sexual joke?

You don’t even have a hand with those cards. What a fraking circle jerk.

Do continue to predict that your stereotypical generalizations and regurgitations of the Fox News “is” mantra will be met with predictably dismissive results. :roll:
 
Well Sir Lion you just cant accept the evidence there is about Fox News, thats not my problem. You asked for similar issues with Fox News, you got similar issues, where fabrication (even by Fox News reporters) was used to in a story on the Fox News Channel. That you dont think the issues are on the same "level" as the Dan Rather story, only shows how pro Fox News you are, dispite your claims of not being it.. or that you are a Bush supporter, and having negative stories about Bush is some how worse than having false facts to slam the opposition.

And I never claimed that Fox News was found guilty in a court of law, because we both know that will never happen. But I did provide one ruling from Ofcom against Fox News, which is the "medias court" in the UK. Also Dan Rather was never found guilty in a court of law. You are just trying to muddy the waters as always.

Your claims of lack of logic only shows how twisted your own is. Fabricating facts for stories or to prove a point in journalism is wrong. Newspapers, even the New York Times (a favourite of the right these days) have fired journalists for fake interviews or fake facts. Fox News has yet to do so, let alone admit quite a number of mistakes.

Hiding behind the excuse of "its and OP/ED piece" is just that .. a lame excuse. Dan Rathers story was an OP/ED piece then. Now all the crap against Dan Rather falls away right?

I’m particularly impressed that you think the best nail you can hang anything on is the Carl Cameron story from 2004.

Now you are making things up. The Carl Cameron story is one of many issues with Fox News, issues that are well documented. the Carl Cameron story also shows at best the attitude of Carl Cameron and at worst of Fox News, towards Kerry. Considering how Fox News was totaly biased against Kerry during the election, then I suspect the latter. I also never claimed that this story was "my best nail". In fact I never claimed that on any of the examples.

So there you are on record as not being able to differentiate between news reporting and news commentary; until it suits your wafer thin purposes to do so.

Again you are making things up. I am fully able to differentiate between news reporting and news commentary. What you are not able to differentiate between it seems, is that fabricating facts, or using fabricated facts in news reporting or news commentary are no different. Its still lies.

You appear utterly unaware of the recent history of journalism over just the last few decades in addition to your other OP/ED issue.

Again irrelevant. Just because its an OP/ED piece, then its okay to fabricate facts or use fabricated facts? Does that mean that if Dan Rather chose to do his piece as an OP/ED piece, then it would not have been the issue it was?

You’ve got what now? An errant “R” or “D” and some political commentary? And you’ll raise me a Carl Cameron/John Kerry Metro sexual joke?

As I stated, you asked for examples of similar conduct. I gave you examples. There are plenty more where those came from, but of course you wount accept the soruces used, so whats the point?
 
Well Sir Lion you just cant accept the evidence there is about Fox News, thats not my problem. You asked for similar issues with Fox News, you got similar issues, where fabrication (even by Fox News reporters) was used to in a story on the Fox News Channel. That you dont think the issues are on the same "level" as the Dan Rather story, only shows how pro Fox News you are, dispite your claims of not being it.. or that you are a Bush supporter, and having negative stories about Bush is some how worse than having false facts to slam the opposition.

I asked you to provide “evidence” that Fox News has ever been caught up in a Dan Rather/CBS situation. None has occurred and you have certainly offered nothing to contradict that.

Humorously, in another thread about Fox News we have posters from every part of the political spectrum who happen to agree that the Fox News “is” idiocy is pabulum. Some of those posters who happen to be liberal or lean democratic were able to quite correctly point out that the opinions and commentaries on Fox are no more the position of the network than Glen Beck IS CNN, or Keith Olberman IS MSNBC, or Chris Matthews IS CNN. Would you like me to provide you with the link to the thread? Then you can call everyone in that thread who does not agree with your narrow minded paper thin logic about Fox News “Fox News Lovers”? Do tell, because that should make for some truly funny moments, watching you tell posters that have been here for years and are hardly “right wing” that they are Fox News Lovers. Chuckle.

According to your more and more desperate attempts at logic, since anything Glenn Beck says is on CNN, his words are CNN and therefore CNN is “guilty” of any charge you want to flim flam at Beck. The same with Chris Mathews on the same channel, CNN. According to you *(and yes THIS IS STUPID OF YOU) since anything Chris Matthews has to say is aired by CNN, his opinions are those of CNN. Now Matthews and Beck are at opposite ends of the political spectrum and have made all sorts of comments that set internet posters a twitter. But not until I came across your tired attempt to spin this issue, had I ever met someone trying to claim CNN was espousing both the views of Glenn Beck AND Chris Matthews. That is quite a corner you have managed to back yourself into.

And I never claimed that Fox News was found guilty in a court of law, because we both know that will never happen. But I did provide one ruling from Ofcom against Fox News, which is the "medias court" in the UK. Also Dan Rather was never found guilty in a court of law. You are just trying to muddy the waters as always.

Just more feinting and posturing. But I’m thrilled that your court made a judgment that they themselves recognize comes from “a personal comment section at the end of an hour-long news programme”. Thanks be to the lord above we have courts to issue finding against opinion pieces. The world is safe. Chuckle.

Dan Rather admitted his error in judgment, so did CBS. I did not make any claims about Dan Rather or CBS being “proved guilty many times” much less once. You did claim that Fox News has “been found guilty many times”. Your idea of guilt is an accusation by Media Matters. And then you keep referring to your link that reads “My Word is a personal comment section….” All while claming you don’t and then you do understand the differences between OP/ED and reporting. You even offered up some specious attempts to explain why you did not recognize any differences between the two. Now you act like you never did that either. If you don’t stand by your own claims, why are you expecting anyone to give them any heed? You’re all over the place as your spin attempts keep spiraling further and further outwards.

Your claims of lack of logic only shows how twisted your own is. Fabricating facts for stories or to prove a point in journalism is wrong. Newspapers, even the New York Times (a favourite of the right these days) have fired journalists for fake interviews or fake facts. Fox News has yet to do so, let alone admit quite a number of mistakes.

As all you have to offer as evidence of Fox news mistakes is Media Matters and their accusations, you have nothing to offer really. I understand that you sincerely wish that Media Matters was doing more than making accusations and allegations, but at the end of the day that is all they are doing. There is some source on the internet every day that claims to debunk most everything said by anyone on any channel. Only real stories of fabrication, libel and slander ever actually lead to the stores being confirmed and vetted by other media sources. This is what happened with Dan Rather and CBS News, and this is what has not happened with Fox News. You say it has, but so far all you’ve submitted is hot gas.

Hiding behind the excuse of "its and OP/ED piece" is just that .. a lame excuse. Dan Rathers story was an OP/ED piece then. Now all the crap against Dan Rather falls away right?

Yes yes, your IQ plummet continues unabated. Now according to you if CNN does not agree that the comments of one of their pundits made during their commentary show or OP/ED are those of the network, they are hiding behind the OP/ED. So until CNN and MSNBC and all the other mainstream media sources come out and stop hiding behind OP/EDs and admit the views of Glenn Beck/Chris Matthews/Keith Olberman et al represent the network, not the pundit, your going to beat your drum about how they have been “found guilty many times" of the sham charges you have tried to float out here? Do tell; better yet let me see if I can predict the future like you. Hokus Pokus, I predict you will now attempt to say that you never claimed that since Bill O’'Rielly is a face of Fox News, and they air his words, his words are those of Fox News. And hence you never really intended to mean that since Glenn Beck/Chris Matthews/Keith Olberman are faces of CNN and MSNBC, their words are those of CNN MSNBC. Just how far down this dung hole you have managed to dig are you planning on falling?

Now you are making things up. The Carl Cameron story is one of many issues with Fox News, issues that are well documented. the Carl Cameron story also shows at best the attitude of Carl Cameron and at worst of Fox News, towards Kerry. Considering how Fox News was totaly biased against Kerry during the election, then I suspect the latter. I also never claimed that this story was "my best nail". In fact I never claimed that on any of the examples.

No, I was making fun of your best attempts at trying to rationalize your unsupportable claims.


Again you are making things up. I am fully able to differentiate between news reporting and news commentary. What you are not able to differentiate between it seems, is that fabricating facts, or using fabricated facts in news reporting or news commentary are no different. Its still lies.

No, so far you have contradicted yourself. In fact, you have hung yourself. But go ahead, I can’t wait to see how you try to backpedal on your they are faces of the network, therefore they are the network idiocy.

Again irrelevant. Just because its an OP/ED piece, then its okay to fabricate facts or use fabricated facts? Does that mean that if Dan Rather chose to do his piece as an OP/ED piece, then it would not have been the issue it was?

Still playing like an allegation from Media Matters is “evidence” of lying, libel slander and whatever adjectives you can come up with? Like I said before, my what a lobvely circle jerk you have made there.


As I stated, you asked for examples of similar conduct. I gave you examples. There are plenty more where those came from, but of course you wount accept the soruces used, so whats the point?

At this point, having defeated your own logic with your “faces of” sophistry, there really is no point. I’m dead certain you have no idea that you managed to hang yourself with your own rope, and I’m just as certain that you have no idea just how much I appreciate you maneuvering your self into a corner with your own “case summations” in this thread.

BTW Pete, if you are going to wax not so poetic about “talking points” regarding Fox News, might I suggest you stop regurgitating “talking points” regarding Fox News?

So far you have brought up who owns Fox News. Who the president of Fox News is. Anyone that does not agree with you is a Fox News Lover. The show host at Fox News unlike all other media are the anchors, so anything they say is Fox News saying it. That is your specious logic, and gosh darn it you’re proud of this logic. Man the lengths and leaps in logic you are willing to undergo in order to keep dissembling truly qualify you as a contortionist.

You are “talking pointing” yourself into a corner…and providing a great example of unbridled hypocrisy. You’ve done nothing but ape talking points so common on the internet, and so easily debunked that it is surprising anyone is willing to make them. You’ve posted nothing but empty and unsupportable talking points, you’ve supplied three or four utterly pathetic “examples” of supposed libel, slander and fabrication ala they put a “D” chevron up instead of “R” one time. Wow, heavy stuff. Or at least you think so. Chuckle.

You’re done son, you don’t know it. You won’t admit it, in fact you’ll probably go on issuing broadly stereotypic generalizations and offering up “examples” that are common place and occur on every single news media source, and have for decades. So and so used this poll to make a commentary, and so and so says that poll was not right. So so and works for so and so therefore so so is the “network” and the network is hiding behind the Op/ED. Blah spin blah spin blah.

You’re done son, you don’t know it but I do. And I’m done with you, happy stereotypical Fox News “is” mantra ranting. Feel free to either enjoy the corner you painted yourself into, or spin furiously in order to get out of it. Break a leg.
 
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I asked you to provide “evidence” that Fox News has ever been caught up in a Dan Rather/CBS situation. None has occurred and you have certainly offered nothing to contradict that.

Again I provided evidence, but you are the one that has choosen to disregard that evidence.

Humorously, in another thread about Fox News we have posters from every part of the political spectrum who happen to agree that the Fox News “is” idiocy is pabulum. Some of those posters who happen to be liberal or lean democratic were able to quite correctly point out that the opinions and commentaries on Fox are no more the position of the network than Glen Beck IS CNN, or Keith Olberman IS MSNBC, or Chris Matthews IS CNN. Would you like me to provide you with the link to the thread? Then you can call everyone in that thread who does not agree with your narrow minded paper thin logic about Fox News “Fox News Lovers”? Do tell, because that should make for some truly funny moments, watching you tell posters that have been here for years and are hardly “right wing” that they are Fox News Lovers. Chuckle.

Again, if you are missing the point which you yourself brought up. Either you are intentionally missing the point so to muddy the waters, or just dont get it. You ask for a "Dan Rather like situation" on Fox News. Dan Rather was caught with fake facts in a story. The examples I provided were examples of Fox News being caught in exactly the same thing.

As for the personalities on various networks. They are allowed to have thier opinions as long as they dont make up stuff for thier stories/comments. Have they done this then they should be condemed on the same level as I condem Fox News for allowing such things. I have yet to see faked or false facts to prove a point by CNN reporters or anchors, on any CNN show that I watch. As for the other shows, i dont watch them over here because they are not shown. Glenn Black who? and Chris Mathews who? All I know of them is what the haters on these boards say. They also dont have a great record on Media Matters as far as I can see.

According to your more and more desperate attempts at logic, since anything Glenn Beck says is on CNN, his words are CNN and therefore CNN is “guilty” of any charge you want to flim flam at Beck. The same with Chris Mathews on the same channel, CNN. According to you *(and yes THIS IS STUPID OF YOU) since anything Chris Matthews has to say is aired by CNN, his opinions are those of CNN. Now Matthews and Beck are at opposite ends of the political spectrum and have made all sorts of comments that set internet posters a twitter. But not until I came across your tired attempt to spin this issue, had I ever met someone trying to claim CNN was espousing both the views of Glenn Beck AND Chris Matthews. That is quite a corner you have managed to back yourself into.

Anything that any corrospondant or anchor or reporter says on a tv channel, radio channel or in a newspaper is a reflection of said outlet. If that person lies, or provides false or fake facts in his story, then that reflects the media outlet and especially if the media outlet does nothing to condem such actions.

You are focusing totaly on the TV personalities than the contents of what they base thier message or information on. Again an American that does not understand the idea of principle.

Just more feinting and posturing. But I’m thrilled that your court made a judgment that they themselves recognize comes from “a personal comment section at the end of an hour-long news programme”. Thanks be to the lord above we have courts to issue finding against opinion pieces. The world is safe. Chuckle.

Its not "my court" as I am not British. But in the UK its not legal under the media rules, agreed by the media themselvs, to have personal comments by a reporter or anchor in purely news program. Thats what they have documentaries or similar shows for.

Dan Rather admitted his error in judgment, so did CBS. I did not make any claims about Dan Rather or CBS being “proved guilty many times” much less once. You did claim that Fox News has “been found guilty many times”.

And they have as I have shown. That they have not been "punished" or "called" in the same way as Dan Rather and CBS was, only shows how big a power Fox News has.

Your idea of guilt is an accusation by Media Matters.

No mediamatters just provides the evidence. If Dan Rather was "guilty" of wrong doing before he admitted his error in judgement, then O'Rielly or whoever on Fox News must be just as guilty as Dan Rather as they committed the same "crime" of using false or fake evidence in thier stories. In fact some Fox New people are even more guilty as they knowingly participated in the fabrication of facts for thier stories.

And then you keep referring to your link that reads “My Word is a personal comment section….” All while claming you don’t and then you do understand the differences between OP/ED and reporting. You even offered up some specious attempts to explain why you did not recognize any differences between the two. Now you act like you never did that either. If you don’t stand by your own claims, why are you expecting anyone to give them any heed? You’re all over the place as your spin attempts keep spiraling further and further outwards.

Talk about grabing at straws and attempting spin. I have always claimed here, and in other threads that there is no difference between a news show and OP/ED show on a NEWS channel if the information in said shows is based on fake or false facts.

As all you have to offer as evidence of Fox news mistakes is Media Matters and their accusations, you have nothing to offer really. I understand that you sincerely wish that Media Matters was doing more than making accusations and allegations, but at the end of the day that is all they are doing. There is some source on the internet every day that claims to debunk most everything said by anyone on any channel. Only real stories of fabrication, libel and slander ever actually lead to the stores being confirmed and vetted by other media sources. This is what happened with Dan Rather and CBS News, and this is what has not happened with Fox News. You say it has, but so far all you’ve submitted is hot gas.

Again, you are continuing with the classic right wing tactic of denial of the evidence because of the source. You are again trying to muddy the waters away from the facts so to protect Fox News and its actions.

Yes yes, your IQ plummet continues unabated. Now according to you if CNN does not agree that the comments of one of their pundits made during their commentary show or OP/ED are those of the network, they are hiding behind the OP/ED.

Yes they are. But it depends on who you see as "pundits". I am only talking about anchors and reporters, not about invited "experts" or "commentators". They can say whatever they want, and that does not reflect the news organisation they are on.. because they are INVITED. The Anchors and reporters are employees.

So until CNN and MSNBC and all the other mainstream media sources come out and stop hiding behind OP/EDs and admit the views of Glenn Beck/Chris Matthews/Keith Olberman et al represent the network, not the pundit, your going to beat your drum about how they have been “found guilty many times" of the sham charges you have tried to float out here?

Glenn Beck and so on are anchors of shows on said channels. They are employees of the stations, and hence what they use evidence or facts for thier biased stories reflects the station. If they use false or made up facts to promote thier views, then hell yes that reflects the station. The station is harbouring a liar and cheat for peak sake.

Do tell; better yet let me see if I can predict the future like you. Hokus Pokus, I predict you will now attempt to say that you never claimed that since Bill O’'Rielly is a face of Fox News, and they air his words, his words are those of Fox News.

His words and actions "REFLECT" on Fox News as he is an employee.

And hence you never really intended to mean that since Glenn Beck/Chris Matthews/Keith Olberman are faces of CNN and MSNBC, their words are those of CNN MSNBC. Just how far down this dung hole you have managed to dig are you planning on falling?

You are the one making stuff up to match your paraniod dellusions, not me. You seem not to be able to grasp that it is wrong to use fake or false or made up facts in news stories. If Glen Black says that only 1 million Jews died in the holocaust, then I would expect whatever channel he is on to condem him and fire his sorry ***. If O'Rielly started to quote made up facts about Clinton, or Obama, or some other personality, then I expect Fox News to repremand him. But they dont. If an anchor said that Obama was a muslim pedofile then I would expect that news channel to show that anchor the door.

No, I was making fun of your best attempts at trying to rationalize your unsupportable claims.

My claims are fully supported, its just you that refuse to accept the clear evidence out there. Anyone with half a brain can see using made up facts in stories is wrong. It was wrong for Dan Rather, and its wrong for random Fox News personality or CNN personality or BBC personality to do such a thing.

No, so far you have contradicted yourself. In fact, you have hung yourself. But go ahead, I can’t wait to see how you try to backpedal on your they are faces of the network, therefore they are the network idiocy.

Where have I contradicted myself? I fully understand that this is another lame attempt by you to divert attention away from the issue and onto me by attacking my interigty. It aint gonna work.

Still playing like an allegation from Media Matters is “evidence” of lying, libel slander and whatever adjectives you can come up with? Like I said before, my what a lobvely circle jerk you have made there.

Again its you that have chosen not to believe the evidence Media Matters has, even though almost all evidence are direct transcripts or audio or video. That is not my fault that you choose to close your eyes. Denial can be a serious issue.

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At this point, having defeated your own logic with your “faces of” sophistry, there really is no point. I’m dead certain you have no idea that you managed to hang yourself with your own rope, and I’m just as certain that you have no idea just how much I appreciate you maneuvering your self into a corner with your own “case summations” in this thread.

Again I do not know "how I hung myself" because you have not proven it. You have instead dismissed off hand my evidence (just as all Fox Lovers have done in various thread) dispite them being exactly the same as the Dan Rather sitaution.

BTW Pete, if you are going to wax not so poetic about “talking points” regarding Fox News, might I suggest you stop regurgitating “talking points” regarding Fox News?

Well you are the one using classic "talking points" to defend Fox News. Fox News owners and workers use them too, but that dont make them true.

So far you have brought up who owns Fox News. Who the president of Fox News is. Anyone that does not agree with you is a Fox News Lover.

Again you are not reading what I am writing and putting words in my mouth. I have never said that anyone who disagrees with me on Fox News is a "Fox News Lover", but I have stated that people who use the same old talking points and excuses to defend the actions of people on Fox News are "Fox News Lovers". Now if people could actually look at the cases and discuss the facts then I would respect them far more, than people who use the outdated OP/ED excuse or some other lame excuse, or even worse attack the soruce of the evidence or attack the person posting the critical material on Fox News.

The show host at Fox News unlike all other media are the anchors, so anything they say is Fox News saying it.

Not really. Al Jazzera and Russia Today are similar in format. All are highly biased towards some political ideal and that bias often results in "Dan Rather" issues.




That is your specious logic, and gosh darn it you’re proud of this logic. Man the lengths and leaps in logic you are willing to undergo in order to keep dissembling truly qualify you as a contortionist.

Personal insults are the next phase in the standard right wing tactic to divert attention away form the issue and onto to the opposition. Thank you for again proving my point from my first post, on what was gonna happen in this thread.

You are “talking pointing” yourself into a corner…and providing a great example of unbridled hypocrisy. You’ve done nothing but ape talking points so common on the internet, and so easily debunked that it is surprising anyone is willing to make them. You’ve posted nothing but empty and unsupportable talking points, you’ve supplied three or four utterly pathetic “examples” of supposed libel, slander and fabrication ala they put a “D” chevron up instead of “R” one time. Wow, heavy stuff. Or at least you think so. Chuckle.

Well your tactics of attacking me, denying the source and all the other lame right wing tactics are clearly showing that you have no feet to stand on, when it comes to the actual issue that you yourself brought up. You sir were caught in your own web of ignorance. And yes I have used a classic right wing tactic of attack you personally.. I admit that.

You’re done son, you don’t know it. You won’t admit it, in fact you’ll probably go on issuing broadly stereotypic generalizations and offering up “examples” that are common place and occur on every single news media source, and have for decades. So and so used this poll to make a commentary, and so and so says that poll was not right. So so and works for so and so therefore so so is the “network” and the network is hiding behind the Op/ED. Blah spin blah spin blah.

Yes more bla bla bla from you. You do know that regardless on how much bla bla bla you post, the fact that you have dogded the topic on every turn once you lost your argument about the similar "Dan Rather" stories on Fox News, wount make the issue go away. Denial is powerfull thing.

You’re done son, you don’t know it but I do. And I’m done with you, happy stereotypical Fox News “is” mantra ranting. Feel free to either enjoy the corner you painted yourself into, or spin furiously in order to get out of it. Break a leg.

Ahh the last method.. removing yourself from the discussion and hoping it goes away. You have now completed the classic right wing methods on derailing a debate.. congrats.
 
America's Newsroom

Wathing the style of Bill Hemmer and Megyn Kelly telling the news, it reminds me the style of the religious dude Jack Van Impe and Rexella.:shock:

Rexella uses to tell the bad news of wars, diseases and more always smiling while Jack uses to get serious and analyze the news comparing them with the bible prophecies.

In the case of the Fox America's Newsroom, when Bill and Megy smile openly while they talk about disasters, crimes and more, we can observe two (2) Rexellas...:doh
 
Pete, save your efforts or invite another poster to take up your argument. You no longer have my attention on this subject. You lost me many feedback loops and logic leaps ago. I’ve discussed this issue with far too many intelligent people from across the political spectrum to be impressed with your narrow minded ideological slant. If you are not that, you'll have plenty of chances to prove it in the future.

I’d never be caught dead trying to paint ANY news network with the ideologues brush you use. That kind of deliberate dishonesty, both factually and intellectually holds no allure for me. It is part of the problem with the whole Fox News "is" argument. In order to buy into it, you've got to chose to become a sheeple. Sheeple willingly join the herds that they run around in. Fox News "is" is about as useful as CNN “is” and Conservatives "are" and Liberals "are" is. Which translates as baahh baahh.

While rambling about talking points don’t forget to vomit forth talking points always aimed at Fox News. For years and years now. Then you can complain that your utterly usual talking points and links are being met with talking points.:3oops::spin::3oops:

As I said in my first reply to you, it is a lot like standing in a puddle of water, holding an aluminum paper clip while sticking it in an electrical socket and then complaining about the sparkly shocky tingles traveling up your arm.
 
Pete, save your efforts or invite another poster to take up your argument. You no longer have my attention on this subject. You lost me many feedback loops and logic leaps ago. I’ve discussed this issue with far too many intelligent people from across the political spectrum to be impressed your narrow minded ideological slant.

I’d never be caught dead trying to paint ANY news network with the ideologues brush you use. That kind of deliberate dishonesty, both factually and intellectually holds no allure for me. It is part of the problem with the whole Fox News "is" argument. In order to buy into it, you've got to chose to become a sheeple. Sheeple willingly join the herds that they run around in. Fox News "is" is about as useful as CNN “is” and Conservatives "are" and Liberals "are" is. Which translates as baahh baahh.

While rambling about talking points don’t forget to vomit forth talking points always aimed at Fox News. For years and years now. Then you can complain that your utterly usual talking points and links are being met with talking points.:3oops::spin::3oops:

As I said in my first reply to you, it is a lot like standing in a puddle of water, holding an aluminum paper clip while sticking it in an electrical socket and then complaining about the sparkly shocky tingles traveling up your arm.:mrgreen:

I thought you were and I quote:

And I’m done with you

I guess not. You continue to attempt to use the same tactics you have used since you lost the argument, and no how many times you post the same bla bla, it wount change the facts.

Are you done now?
 
I thought you were and I quote: And I’m done with you.
I guess not. You continue to attempt to use the same tactics you have used since you lost the argument, and no how many times you post the same bla bla, it wount change the facts.

Are you done now?

Since you insist, I’ll happily oblige you.

So let us, you and me, butt heads in a Mano a Mano 'bout. Right here at Debate Politics. In the Battleground and Disputations forum.

I’m feeling magnanimous, so let me know.

If we can agree upon the parameters, I’ll happily let you whoop up on me.

I’m a poor defenseless “Fox News Lover.”

You’ll be Bruce Lee and I’ll be Shirley Temple.

Really!

That is how it will work out.

I’m a poor maundering troglodyte; you’ll make mince meat of me.

Don’t believe me?

Then accept my offer.

This is the link I copied to the appropriate spot, but if it don’t work just hoist a flag and we’ll get through it. Hand in hand. :lol:

http://www.debatepolitics.com/newthread.php?do=newthread&f=106
 
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Since you insist, I’ll happily oblige you.

So let us, you and me, butt heads in a Mano a Mano 'bout. Right here at Debate Politics. In the Battleground and Disputations forum.

I’m feeling magnanimous, so let me know.

If we can agree upon the parameters, I’ll happily let you whoop up on me.

I’m a poor defenseless “Fox News Lover.”

You’ll be Bruce Lee and I’ll be Shirley Temple.

Really!

That is how it will work out.

I’m a poor maundering troglodyte; you’ll make mince meat of me.

Don’t believe me?

Then accept my offer.

This is the link I copied to the appropriate spot, but if it don’t work just hoist a flag and we’ll get through it. Hand in hand. :lol:

http://www.debatepolitics.com/newthread.php?do=newthread&f=106

Still using the avoidance tactic and the personal attack tactic.. and going back on your own word of "being done with me".

Are you done yet? Or are you willing to actually debate the issue at hand?
 
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