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For those that use the term “Faux News”

Posted on 1/25/18 at 9:08 am
Posted by Ag Zwin
Member since Mar 2016
20227 posts
Posted on 1/25/18 at 9:08 am
I hear from the left all the time that Fox is the fake news and that the rest of the MSM is the truth.

Honest question: Can you provide examples of Fox News that are CONSISTENTLY “out there”? All outlets have their foul ups, but I am talking about the show or personality that is overwhelmingly one-sided and shilling.

If it is the entire network, I’d ask you to provide more than one or two examples of a pervasive bias.

I expect Hannity will be #1 on the list, and I think it is reasonable to say he lacks objectivity.

What else?
This post was edited on 1/25/18 at 10:04 am
Posted by Ag Zwin
Member since Mar 2016
20227 posts
Posted on 1/25/18 at 10:02 am to
Posted by Lsupimp
Ersatz Amerika-97.6% phony & fake
Member since Nov 2003
79494 posts
Posted on 1/25/18 at 10:06 am to
Fox lied , People died !
Faux News !

If your entire political philosophy is bumper-sticker depth quality, that’s all you need. Progressives aren’t content with having a Cultural Monopoly Of 96.3%. They want it all.
Posted by Wtodd
Tampa, FL
Member since Oct 2013
67546 posts
Posted on 1/25/18 at 10:10 am to
I know you are but what am I
Posted by Pettifogger
Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone
Member since Feb 2012
79525 posts
Posted on 1/25/18 at 10:14 am to
Fox is part of the MSM.

And Fox and Friends are overwhelmingly one sided. Conversations begin with things like "well, it's clear by now what a huge patriot President Trump is, which is why so much of this Russia stuff just doesn't ring true."

It's absurd. Harmless because it is such soft news, but still ridiculous.

Hannity is awful. I like and watch Tucker, but he's openly biased. I don't really like Laura, although I don't think she's a nut. But she's biased and lacks objectivity.

Dana Perino is good, but biased. Everyone on the Five but Williams leans right.

Fox is incredibly one-sided and shilling. There is no way around it. I prefer that shilling networks shill to my side, but let's call them what they are.
Posted by Tridentds
Sugar Land
Member since Aug 2011
20758 posts
Posted on 1/25/18 at 10:16 am to
Hannity does lack objectivity but as he has said hundreds of times... he is not a news reporter and makes no claim to be one. He is a commentator. So is just about every person on CNN and MSNBC but they claim to be objective reporters which they are clearly not.
This post was edited on 1/25/18 at 11:15 am
Posted by LSU Patrick
Member since Jan 2009
73653 posts
Posted on 1/25/18 at 10:19 am to
quote:

I expect Hannity will be #1 on the list, and I think it is reasonable to say he lacks objectivity.


Hannity openly admits that he is not a journalist. Why do people have such a hard time understanding the distinction? Fake news is coming from fake journalists, not opinion guys like Hannity, Levin, Rush, etc.
This post was edited on 1/25/18 at 10:20 am
Posted by austintigerdad
Llano County, TX
Member since Nov 2010
1884 posts
Posted on 1/25/18 at 10:20 am to
quote:

Ag Zwin

Honest question: Can you provide examples of Fox News that are CONSISTENTLY “out there”?

Google is your friend. First up Wikipedia.
quote:

Sexual harassment
Pro-Republican and pro-Trump bias
Coverage of Russia investigation
False claims about other media
Climate change
Donald Trump wiretapping claim
Murder of Seth Rich conspiracy
Obama administration conflict with Fox News
White supremacist rally in Charlottesville

Posted by coolpapaboze
Parts Unknown
Member since Dec 2006
15925 posts
Posted on 1/25/18 at 10:23 am to
I think you have to differentiate between the opinion/personality shows, and the actual news coverage.
Posted by JimboFisherAM
Member since Dec 2017
569 posts
Posted on 1/25/18 at 10:31 am to
Here's a politifact website with list of retractions Fox has issued. You probably won't take the time to read all 9 pages that have been retracted, because that would take too long.

This scorecard shows the ratings for statements made on air by Fox, Fox News and Fox Business personalities and their pundit guests. Rulings do not include statements made on air by politicians or paid spokespeople.

Statements made on FOX
Click on the ruling to see all of the statements made on FOX.

True17 (10%)(17)
Mostly True20 (12%)(20)
Half True31 (18%)(31)
Mostly False35 (21%)(35)
False50 (30%)(50)
Pants on Fire16 (9%)(16)

Politifact List of Fox Retractions
Posted by SirWinston
PNW
Member since Jul 2014
83216 posts
Posted on 1/25/18 at 11:18 am to
Fox News is better than ever now that Trump won and bought their cucked neoconservative asses to heel.
Posted by Cruiserhog
Little Rock
Member since Apr 2008
10460 posts
Posted on 1/25/18 at 11:44 am to
5 @ 5 bitched about Dems leaking whitehouse meetings when Durbin told the world our president is a racist.

they bitched about that instead of Trump's classless words about other countries
Posted by austintigerdad
Llano County, TX
Member since Nov 2010
1884 posts
Posted on 1/25/18 at 1:25 pm to
quote:

For those that use the term “Faux News”

More on OP's impeccable timing (from ABC News via Raw Story).

quote:

Fox hypes bogus FBI ‘secret society’ dozens of times — then goes silent after it’s revealed as a joke

Fox News on Thursday ceased discussion about an alleged anti-Trump “secret society” in the FBI after the notion was revealed as a joke.

Fox News made 90 mentions of the so-called “secret society” in January. The network and GOP guests alleged that text message showed that FBI agents were out to get President Donald Trump.

Text messages obtained by ABC News on Wednesday suggested that FBI agents were joking when they used the term “secret society.”

But that report was never mentioned by Fox News and there is no record of a clarification from the conservative network.


This post was edited on 1/25/18 at 1:27 pm
Posted by CCTider
Member since Dec 2014
24257 posts
Posted on 1/25/18 at 1:44 pm to
quote:


If it is the entire network, I’d ask you to provide more than one or two examples of a pervasive bias


This is a couple years old. But how about 50?

[qoute]
1. "In July 2010 the government said small businesses -- 60 percent -- will lose their health care, 45 percent of big business and a large percentage of individual health."

Sean Hannity, Nov. 11, 2013

False

* * *

2. "And President Obama has offered to pay out of his own pocket for the museum of Muslim culture out of his own pocket, yet it's the Republican National Committee who's paying for this."

Anna Kooiman, Oct. 5, 2013



* * *

3. Labor union president Andy Stern is "the most frequent visitor" at the White House.

Glenn Beck, Dec. 3, 2009

False

* * *

4. "Far more children died last year drowning in their bathtubs than were killed accidentally by guns."

Tucker Carlson, Aug. 9, 2014

Pants on Fire

* * *

5. White House Political Director Patrick Gaspard once served as the "right-hand man" for Bertha Lewis, who heads up ACORN.

Steve Doocy, Sept. 29, 2009

False

* * *

6. "Look at the debt that has been accumulated in the last two years. It's more debt under this president than all those other presidents combined."

Sarah Palin, May 31, 2011

False

* * *

7. "There is no good data showing secondhand smoke kills people."

John Stossel, Dec. 4, 2014

False

* * *

8. "Democrats are poised now to cause this largest tax increase in U.S. history."

Sarah Palin, Aug. 1, 2010

Pants on Fire

* * *

9. "The insurance industry is actually run by mostly Democrats."

Dana Perino, Oct. 31, 2013

False

* * *

10. The Obama administration "manipulated deportation data to make it appear that the Border Patrol was deporting more illegal immigrants than the Bush administration."

Lou Dobbs, July 1, 2014

False

* * *

11. Some doctors say Ebola can be transmitted through the air by "a sneeze or some cough."

George Will, Oct. 19, 2014

False

* * *

12. Says the Texas State Board of Education is considering eliminating references to Christmas and the Constitution in textbooks.

Gretchen Carlson, March 10, 2010

Pants on Fire

* * *

13. Because of President Barack Obama’s failure to "push job creation," the black unemployment rate in Ferguson, Mo., is three times higher than the white unemployment rate.

Lou Dobbs, Aug. 19, 2014

False

* * *

14. When White House communications director Anita Dunn said that Mao Tse-tung was "one of her favorite philosophers, only Fox News picked that up."

Bill O’Reilly, Oct. 23, 2009

False

* * *

15. "The president of the United States will be taking a trip over to India that is expected to cost the taxpayers $200 million a day."

Michele Bachmann, Nov. 3, 2010

False

(Note: Bachmann’s claim was made on CNN, not Fox News but Glenn Beck made a similar claim on Fox)

* * *

16. "We researched to find out if anybody on Fox News had ever said you're going to jail if you don't buy health insurance. Nobody's ever said it."

Bill O’Reilly, Oct. 27, 2010

Pants on Fire

* * *

17. "If you make more than $250,000 a year … you only really take home about $125,000."

Steve Doocy, July 11, 2012

False

* * *

18. A Census Bureau worker says he was told to skew information to bring the unemployment rate down "as we headed into an election season."

Elisabeth Hasselbeck, Nov. 19, 2013

False

* * *

19. "Health care mandate will require imprisonment and fines for Americans who can’t afford to purchase insurance or pay hefty government penalties."

Patients First, Sept. 21, 2009

Mostly False

(Note: Fox hosts have said closely similar statements because of our research into Bill O’Reilly’s Pants on Fire claim -- No. 16 -- that no one on Fox News ever said it.)

* * *

20. "And finally tonight, although it pains me to say this, Jon Stewart? Comedy Central? He was right. Now on his program last night, he mentioned that we had played some incorrect video on this program last week while talking about the Republican health care rally on Capitol Hill. He was correct, we screwed up, we aired some video of a rally in September, along with a video from the actual event. It was an inadvertent mistake, but a mistake nonetheless, so Mr. Stewart. you were right, we apologize. But by the way, I wanna thank you, and all your writers, for watching."

Sean Hannity, Nov. 12, 2009

* * *

21. "I don’t remember any terrorist attacks on American soil during that period of time (2000-08)."

Eric Bolling, July 14, 2011

* * *

22. The United Way and Enroll America, in Coral Gables, Fla., had "navigators going door to door, knocking on the homes of the uninsured … helping them navigate through the different plans that are available.

Phil Keating, Oct. 1, 2013

* * *

23. Less than 10 percent of Obama's Cabinet appointees "have any experience in the private sector."

Glenn Beck, Nov. 30, 2009

False

* * *

24. During the lead-up to the American Revolutionary War, "some guy in Boston got his head blown off because he tried to secretly raise the tax on tea."

Andrea Tantaros, Jan. 15, 2014

Pants on Fire

* * *


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