Is Fox News for real ?

[Handley_Page]

I've seen several comments indicating a lack of trust in the Fox News and am generally unable to comment. This one, however, really takes the biscuit for ignorance.

For what it's worth, I needed no ID documents last time I was there.

PS. I accept that he has apologised and admitted his error, but whatever happened to checking facts Before Publication ?

 

[soflabbwlvr]

I've seen several comments indicating a lack of trust in the Fox News and am generally unable to comment. This one, however, really takes the biscuit for ignorance.

For what it's worth, I needed no ID documents last time I was there.

PS. I accept that he has apologised and admitted his error, but whatever happened to checking facts Before Publication ?

The Onion is held in higher repute and is generally more accurate than Fox News.

 

[DreamCloud]

They serve tea to those that already drink it.

 

[Noor]

I've seen several comments indicating a lack of trust in the Fox News and am generally unable to comment. This one, however, really takes the biscuit for ignorance.

For what it's worth, I needed no ID documents last time I was there.

PS. I accept that he has apologised and admitted his error, but whatever happened to checking facts Before Publication ?

Yes, Fox news is for real in that it is not a humor publication like The Onion. Are they too be taken seriously or their stories as fact? It's a mixed bag. I would double check any story that comes out of Fox news. In general, most media today is somewhat suspect, but Fox news takes more than a few grains of salt.
However compared to Pravda or better yet the North Korean News agency, Fox is practically a model of reporting

 

[JackLuis]

Yes, Fox news is for real in that it is not a humor publication like The Onion. Are they too be taken seriously or their stories as fact? It's a mixed bag. I would double check any story that comes out of Fox news. In general, most media today is somewhat suspect, but Fox news takes more than a few grains of salt.
However compared to Pravda or better yet the North Korean News agency, Fox is practically a model of reporting

Pravda Libel!

 

[oggbashan]

Last year I was driving through an unfamiliar part of Birmingham looking for a Transport Museum that no longer exists, and had closed five years ago.

It had been sited in an area of Birmingham that has several Mosques, and a large number of Muslims.

I had to stop and ask directions several times. Each time I asked a Muslim man. If they knew, they gave me accurate directions politely. If they didn't know, they apologised for not knowing. Eventually I stopped at a Muslim run convenience store. The owner and customers all tried to help me to find the non-existent Museum. Eventually the discussion was ended by the owner's wife consulting a telephone directory. It wasn't listed, so didn't exist.

That area is supposed to be one of those with the highest percentage of Muslims. I found nothing but helpful polite people.

Edited for PS: Curry Mile, Manchester, is a tourist attraction with a high proportion of Muslim businesses:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curry_Mile

If anywhere in Manchester should be a no-go area, it ought to be Curry Mile. It isn't. It welcomes tourists and locals seeking Pakistani, Indian, Afghan and Asian food.

 

[TxRad]

The last time I looked and that was a while ago, the sign above the news desk didn't say Fox News, it said Friends Of Fox.

If you want biased opinion instead of news, it's a good place to visit. It sometimes sounds like a writers meeting for SNL.

 

[49greg]

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PS. I accept that he has apologised and admitted his error, but whatever happened to checking facts Before Publication ?

My opinion is that he, and Fox NotNews, purposely say inflammatory and untrue comments to keep their viewership frightened. This keeps the viewers watching fox and voting for the politicians who will promise to keep them safe from the purported dangers. Not saying there aren't dangers in this world, but my opinion is that they make it sound worse for their own gain. Generally the faithful fox news viewer doesn't watch, listen, or read any other news source. Again, just my opinion.

 

[DeYaKen]

I've seen several comments indicating a lack of trust in the Fox News and am generally unable to comment. This one, however, really takes the biscuit for ignorance.

For what it's worth, I needed no ID documents last time I was there.

PS. I accept that he has apologised and admitted his error, but whatever happened to checking facts Before Publication ?

Isn't Fox news owned by Rupert Murdoch? Would you really believe anything you read in The Sun? (another Murdoch publication)

 

[desertslave]

I sacrificed an hour of my life watching only Fox several months ago.

Their choice of what constituted 'news' was somewhat questionable, but honestly no worse than the crap on Today and GMA at the same time (CBS at least makes an effort, IMO). Their evaluations, however, were absolutely opinion with a definite right-leaning bias.

Interestingly, their financial news is well-chosen and accurate.

 

[Zeb_Carter]

That's the problem with Fox...It is now mostly opinion programs with very little news. You want news, watch your local Fox affiliate.

There approx. two hours of news on Fox News. The rest is filled with other peoples opinion about what the new was or is.

Now I only watch Cavuto over on the Fox Business channel.

I have noticed that the idiots they get for some of the shows are just that idiots. Maybe Fox knows this and just put them in front of the camera for the laugh factor. And to embarrass the crap out of the host.

 

[unregistered]

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

FOX continues to add viewers as the others lose viewers.

 

[TxRad]

FOX continues to add viewers as the others lose viewers.

I'd love for you to show those numbers but you won't/can't.

 

[sr71plt]

I usually watch CNN (while eating breakfast and lunch) and then mostly to see whether a big story is running. Unfortunately, CNN tends to just drone on about two or three stories. So sometimes I check MSNBC and Fox just to see if different stories are running that day as well. I only look at any of them for the issue, not to buy into the reporting slant, though. I was in international news for over twenty years myself. I know what biased reporting is--and that it can't be avoided, even if they tried (which these networks don't).

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

I'd love for you to show those numbers but you won't/can't.

I read them online like the rest of America. Maybe you need a virtual guide dog.

 

[loquere]

I've seen several comments indicating a lack of trust in the Fox News and am generally unable to comment. This one, however, really takes the biscuit for ignorance.

For what it's worth, I needed no ID documents last time I was there.

PS. I accept that he has apologised and admitted his error, but whatever happened to checking facts Before Publication ?

He was purporting hyperbole, he over-sensationalised the facts. I do it all the time when I appear as an expert on the PLayboy channel.

22% in a city in a protestant country is very very VERY high! but my concern here is why does it matter it's all broken telephone in my opinion Muslim,Christian,Judaism same God. Even if your outside of these religions it's the same objectives. Even still if you have no religion just be a good (respectful) person.

 

[Bramblethorn]

PS. I accept that he has apologised and admitted his error, but whatever happened to checking facts Before Publication ?

I think "error" is kinder than he deserves; I'd file this one under "blatant intentional lie". Emerson has a long record of selling this flavour of BS to anybody who'll buy it, even at the risk of provoking war between two nuclear powers: http://fair.org/extra-online-articles/steven-emersons-crusade/

But there were some great responses:

https://twitter.com/Independent/status/554728283955142656/photo/1
https://twitter.com/falklands_utd/status/554744630844354560
https://twitter.com/b4dderman/status/554720595494326273
https://twitter.com/pavanwar/status/554594917646106624/photo/1
https://twitter.com/AliRazarizvi34/status/554674744642240512
https://twitter.com/HappySinger/status/554567285050839041

 

[8letters]

To me, this is an example of a fundamental problem with American media - there is no penalty for "experts" being wrong. My favorite example is James K. Glassman, who co-wrote "Dow 36,000". "Dow 36,000" argued that the stock market in 1999 was way undervalued and the Dow Jones Industrial Average should triple relatively soon from when it was published. It turned out that the stock market at the time was a massive bubble and that it would go from 11,750.28 in January 2000 to 7,286.27 in October, 2002.

Several years after the 2002 crash, I heard him on NPR doing analysis of the day's trading in the stock market.

 

[legerdemer]

The only thing the FOX channel is/was good for is The Simpsons and Futurama. I've since stopped watching TV other than whatever I can stream. All my news comes from the New York Times or NPR - JBJ I'm sure calls them the socialist party news in the US. So be it... they make fewer (note, not 0!) mistakes of the type pointed out in the OP.

 

[TxRad]

I read them online like the rest of America. Maybe you need a virtual guide dog.

Like I said, you won't or can't point the numbers out. Par for you.

With you persona here, I can see you huddled around the TV, hanging on their every word.

 

[someoneyouknow]

Fox News is on par with the National Enquirer. Every so often they get something right but most of the time it's nothing but fluff. They're the ones who complained when the price of oil and gas was falling about all the jobs that would be lost and blaming it on Obama.

Earlier, during the overthrow of Ghadaffi in Libya, their reporter commented he hadn't seen any reporters from any other news stations.

Nic Robertson of CNN went on the air that night and pointedly told the world the reason the Fox reporter (he didn't mention him by name) didn't see anyone was because he sits in the hotel and sends other people out with cameras.

As to the number of viewers, McDonald's sells more hamburgers than anyone else but that's nothing to boast about.

There is absolutely nothing that Fox runs which isn't calculated to be deliberately political in nature. If someone claimed water was good for you, Fox would find a way to point out people drown in water.

If eating steaks were shown to prevent disease in humans, Fox would say the cost of raising cattle is too high for the perceived benefit.

As a final insult, when Fox mentions how well people's retirement accounts are doing, you can tell them to thank Obama and their heads will explode.

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

Like I said, you won't or can't point the numbers out. Par for you.

With you persona here, I can see you huddled around the TV, hanging on their every word.

I read it online, Goofy

CNN and MSNBC were down in the shithole.

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

Fox News is on par with the National Enquirer. Every so often they get something right but most of the time it's nothing but fluff. They're the ones who complained when the price of oil and gas was falling about all the jobs that would be lost and blaming it on Obama.

Earlier, during the overthrow of Ghadaffi in Libya, their reporter commented he hadn't seen any reporters from any other news stations.

Nic Robertson of CNN went on the air that night and pointedly told the world the reason the Fox reporter (he didn't mention him by name) didn't see anyone was because he sits in the hotel and sends other people out with cameras.

As to the number of viewers, McDonald's sells more hamburgers than anyone else but that's nothing to boast about.

There is absolutely nothing that Fox runs which isn't calculated to be deliberately political in nature. If someone claimed water was good for you, Fox would find a way to point out people drown in water.

If eating steaks were shown to prevent disease in humans, Fox would say the cost of raising cattle is too high for the perceived benefit.

As a final insult, when Fox mentions how well people's retirement accounts are doing, you can tell them to thank Obama and their heads will explode.

The bottomline is viewers.

 

[redzinger]

This is unbelievable. The stupidity of the two of them, they just keep diggin' those holes...

http://youtu.be/mYb1JOA8ccM