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Fox News PR Used Fake Accounts To Push Back At Negative Commenters[W:19]

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Here's an interesting bit of Fox News skullduggery from David Folkenflik's new book on Rupert Murdoch's media empire, courtesy of Media Matters:

In a chapter focusing on how Fox utilized its notoriously ruthless public relations department in the mid-to-late 00's, Folkenflik reports that Fox's PR staffers would "post pro-Fox rants" in the comments sections of "negative and even neutral" blog posts written about the network. According to Folkenflik, the staffers used various tactics to cover their tracks, including setting up wireless broadband connections that "could not be traced back" to the network.
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Fox News PR Used Fake Accounts To Push Back At Negative Commenters

Why am I not surprised that this paranoid network uses shills on poltical forums.
 
I'm surprised this isn't front page news at the NY Times... Far left author, of Fox-hating far left website, makes allegations that are 13 years old. That usually qualifies as big news in the main stream media...

Of course to the rest of us, it reeks of pathetic, partisan desperation by the left to silence opposing views.
 
Grim17 said:
I'm surprised this isn't front page news at the NY Times... Far left author, of Fox-hating far left website, makes allegations that are 13 years old. That usually qualifies as big news in the main stream media...

Of course to the rest of us, it reeks of pathetic, partisan desperation by the left to silence opposing views.
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How does this silence opposing views?
 
pbrauer said:
Here is the source of the information.

Murdoch's World: The Last of the Old Media Empires: David Folkenflik: 9781610390897: Amazon.com: Books
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Oh, a book makes it accurate. Gotcha. Let me introduce you to another factual book then:

th


Read up.
 
Gipper said:
Nothing quite like believing a hyper-partisan source against another hyper-partisan source.
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Pssst: the source is quoting a book by David Folkenflik about Fox. Folkenflik is a respected journalist. Focus. Focus.
 
Gipper said:
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New York Times bestseller.

I'll let you stare in awe for a while.
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It's awesome that you have a knownothing as your literary mentor, that's for sure.

But try to focus on the topic. I bet you can't.
 
head of joaquin said:
It's awesome that you have a knownothing as your literary mentor, that's for sure.

But try to focus on the topic. I bet you can't.
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I don't like him. I was just saying that your "endorsement" as a credential is bunk. I countered it with the claim that being a NYT bestseller means almost as much bunk.

This is just about you wanting to be far beyond the lunatic end of fringe and being called out for it. Don't worry - I'm sure your blog will still attract the same double-digit crowd as it always did.
 
Gipper said:
Nothing quite like believing a hyper-partisan source against another hyper-partisan source.
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...posted by a hyper partisan Obama leg humper.
LOL
 
Gipper said:
Oh, a book makes it accurate. Gotcha. Let me introduce you to another factual book then:

th


Read up.
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All I did was state where the information came from, I didn't say I believed it. I don't believe something just because it's in a book. Right or left.
 
Gipper said:
I don't like him. I was just saying that your "endorsement" as a credential is bunk. I countered it with the claim that being a NYT bestseller means almost as much bunk.

This is just about you wanting to be far beyond the lunatic end of fringe and being called out for it. Don't worry - I'm sure your blog will still attract the same double-digit crowd as it always did.
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Thanks for sharing. Now, back to the topic.
 
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Baiting and personal attacks will likely earn you thread bans and / or points.
 
CanadaJohn said:
I'm sure you're furious - that's your gig, right?
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I wish. Meantime, Fox has been exposed as using fake accounts to flood the blogosphere with pro-Fox agitprop.

So, do you think that's appropriate for a news organization to do, or is it just par for the course as far as Fox's propagandistic goals are concerned?
 
A story that's 13 years old... Hell, while you're at it, why not attack Bush too.
 
head of joaquin said:
I wish. Meantime, Fox has been exposed as using fake accounts to flood the blogosphere with pro-Fox agitprop.

So, do you think that's appropriate for a news organization to do, or is it just par for the course as far as Fox's propagandistic goals are concerned?
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Hold on, this isn't the same Murdoch who owned 'New of The World' is it? Nevermind, I am I am mistaken. That Rudolph M. would stoop to anything. I am sure the Fox Murdoch is nothing like that other feller
 
Grim17 said:
A story that's 13 years old... Hell, while you're at it, why not attack Bush too.
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I think you've missed the point about the culture of deception that is Fox news.
 
head of joaquin said:
I think you've missed the point about the culture of deception that is Fox news.
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Personally, I think it would be hilarious if the OP was a false poster hired by the administration. ALL THE FAKE POSTERS POSTING ABOUT EACH OTHER!!! That would be some Inception-style stuff right there.

On a serious note, isn't that practice pretty old-hat and common now?
 
CycloneWanderer said:
Personally, I think it would be hilarious if the OP was a false poster hired by the administration. ALL THE FAKE POSTERS POSTING ABOUT EACH OTHER!!! That would be some Inception-style stuff right there.

On a serious note, isn't that practice pretty old-hat and common now?
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Conspiracy time (user equipped "+1 Tinfoil Hat of Cunning"):

head of joaquin has 11,534 posts since Oct 2012. Assuming that he joined on Oct. 1st, it has been 386 days since he joined this site. That is near 30 posts per day for just over an entire year. That's an awful lot of posts. Are you fake? I DON'T KNOW WHO TO TRUST ANYMORE!!!

/sarcasm
 
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