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Fox News pulls its fake website story
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BigJonsson
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Holy shit, Fox News should get in major shit for this
Chesapeake Silt
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It's more Jayson Blair than CBS. News reporting meets fan-fiction.
The memos and how they created the story to be broadcasted wouldn't have pass a journalism 101 class. mary mapes is still trying to pass the memos off as genuine.
I can't help being right. If he was trying to fire off a story with fake quotes, You can do a helluva better than that. It reads like a parody.
Error Macro
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Ha, that's funny, especially considering Carl Cameron always struck me as being a Democrat.
I think anybody with common sense knows that Fox News has a mostly right-wing agenda going. Hell, the whole 'Fair & Balance' tag should've been the first indicator. CBS News has alot of people that would like to see Bush out of office and, no doubt, allow that to impact their reporting. There's no such thing as news without bias as its always going to filter through people that, themselves, have bias. Because of such slant, we get stupid shit such as what occurred as CBS and Fox News. When stuff like this does crop up publicly though, I seriously think heads need to role. The guy that wrote that article, however sardonic, needs to be suspended if not fired for not prefacing the article as such. Whoever was in charge of the research behind the whole 'Memogate' thing probably needs to get canned as well. As for Dan Rather himself? I'm honestly not sure what should happen there...
Even if the guy was writing a parody, he is supposed to be covering the Kerry campaign, either you let one of your news orginization's established satirists write the parody or you don't publish it. When the guy you have covering the Kerry campaign negatively parodies that campaign you are no longer fair or balanced, you are however, a large rather unpleasant douche bag.
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if I had my way everyone would get their news from PBS, I love PBS
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if I had my way everyone would get their news from PBS, I love PBS
BigJonsson
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In the Ontario election a Conservative party staffer accidentally sent an internal e-mail to the press that called the Liberal party leader a "Repitilian kitten eater from another planet." Even though it was clearly a joke it showed that the Conservatives were dumbasses and it cost them dearly...
This is a different story because it's coming from the media, but still, even if it was intended as a joke it did get out and should be cause for discipline at FOX news. Too bad they are so biased towards the Republicans so its not like the Democrats can deny them access or anything as FOX probobally doesn't give a shit.
This is a different story because it's coming from the media, but still, even if it was intended as a joke it did get out and should be cause for discipline at FOX news. Too bad they are so biased towards the Republicans so its not like the Democrats can deny them access or anything as FOX probobally doesn't give a shit.
LinesInTheSand
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LOL @ the libs on here... what a hypocritical bunch.
A whole article filled with mocking quotes is not a "mistake." It doesn't get put there "accidentally."Makura said:
Regardless, it was good of Fox News to step in quickly and take it down. "Just joking around" or no, it was still posted as "news" and that is childish and irresponsible journalism. There's just no room for this kind of nonsense in the news.
videogamer
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BigJonsson said:
Yeah, the article just fuels our suspicion of Fox's biases.
Anyways, after the CBS memo affair, the press has practically become neutered. Every time they may say something bad about Bush, they're going to be afraid of being another example of "liberal media bias".
Alcibiades
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I don't have an edit/delete buttonLeon said:
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efralope said:I don't have an edit/delete button
Haha
Ripclawe, you become more pathetic with time. Drop the pathetic evasion, the weak-ass excuses, and come out and condemn Fox for printing lies. Seems only the decent thing to do unless you're a feeble-minded hypocrite whose views of what is right or wrong depends on which political party it's done to favour.
Banjo Tango
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When working for Microsoft, a friend of mine was demosntrating to another how to post articles on one of their main news / info pages. He made up an article and talked through the motions of submitting it, but claims he never actually completed the final step...
The next day, he got a very angry call from his manager's manager wanting to know why one of MS's home pages featured the title "This World Sucks." This was back in '97 or '98 so the page probably didn't get too many hits... he didn't lose his job, just got a scolding.
At any rate, I don't think the ass-clown who did this should be fired, I just think people should just start to realize that Fox News is staffed by ass-clowns.
The next day, he got a very angry call from his manager's manager wanting to know why one of MS's home pages featured the title "This World Sucks." This was back in '97 or '98 so the page probably didn't get too many hits... he didn't lose his job, just got a scolding.
At any rate, I don't think the ass-clown who did this should be fired, I just think people should just start to realize that Fox News is staffed by ass-clowns.
Outlaw Pro Mod
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As long as they're not Fox News, right? Fox News points out just as many bad points about Bush as they do about Kerry.
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Outlaw Pro Mod said:
I didn't say anything about Fox in that particular segment. Don't put words in my mouth.
Fox has an article where they quote a member of "Communists for Kerry":
"We're trying to get Comrade Kerry elected and get that capitalist enabler George Bush out of office," said 17-year-old Komoselutes Rob of Communists for Kerry.
"Even though he, too, is a capitalist, he supports my socialist values more than President Bush," Rob said, before assuring FOXNews.com that his organization was not a parody group. When asked his thoughts on Washington's policy toward Communist holdout North Korea, Rob said: "The North Koreans are my comrades to a point, and I'm sure they support Comrade Kerry, too."
I'm happy they took them at their word that they're not a parody group, not to mention that the kid interviewed can't even vote yet.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,134268,00.html
"We're trying to get Comrade Kerry elected and get that capitalist enabler George Bush out of office," said 17-year-old Komoselutes Rob of Communists for Kerry.
"Even though he, too, is a capitalist, he supports my socialist values more than President Bush," Rob said, before assuring FOXNews.com that his organization was not a parody group. When asked his thoughts on Washington's policy toward Communist holdout North Korea, Rob said: "The North Koreans are my comrades to a point, and I'm sure they support Comrade Kerry, too."
I'm happy they took them at their word that they're not a parody group, not to mention that the kid interviewed can't even vote yet.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,134268,00.html
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RedDwarf said:
No, perhaps not a parody group, but...
(Emphasis added)
http://www.hellgate.org/disclaimer/
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Traumahound said:
Is it the same "Communists for Kerry" group? It's a catchy name. If they are the same group though, then Rob would be lying or playing word games.
Traumahound
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eggplant said:
Same group. Click the "Communists for Kerry" link in the Fox article and then choose "About Us" (last link on the left side of the Communists for Kerry page) and that'll bring you to the page I linked above.
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Traumahound said:
Oh Komoselutes Rob gave Fox bad info, it's all his fault.
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