Fox News uses satirical news sites as sources too often for it to be by mistake

I believe we have all, in the past, red an article ripped from the Onion, or the National Report, and thought it a real news story. It is an honest mistake sometimes, especially with stories on extremists, who are often not far off from how the stories portray them.



There are many times, Fox has reported things using these types of satire news sites as sources.

Here is a list of stories done by fox with satire sites as their sources...

1; Obama personally funded a Muslim museum during 2012 shutdown (originally a National Report story) This is still claimed as fact by people on this very forum, despite being proven completely untrue.

2; A number of stories about ebola outbreaks in the US, reported by Fox as fact, but were really satire stories. Including one in Purdon, Texas.

3; Obama sent a 75,000 word email rambling about how his job was and how bad the republicans were and other things.



So, either Fox is ran by complete idiots who are too stupid to understand that these sites are satire, keep using them over and over again as sources, or they are purposely using the stories to rile their viewers.

Since fox spend years convincing their viewers that Obama was a Muslim terrorist sleeper agent, it would serve their interest to use a fake story about Obama paying out of pocket to keep a Muslim museum open. Their viewers most likely do not know about the onion and the national report, and their satirical nature, so Fox could easily use these stories to get the far right base riled up, knowing full well that they are fake news stories.

Think about it. Fox used ebola outbreaks as a fear mongoring device for month before the NR wrote their fake article. Fox could report the article as fact, and then claimed they were not made away of it's satircal nature until after. They get to scare the hell out of their viewrs, which is what they want and when they get called out for using obviously fake stories (all onion and NR articles are clearly labeled as satire) they can blame some low level worker for the mixup and act like it was just a mistake and that they were never intending to purposely misinform their viewers.

 

Man, you are really trolling tonight!! Did Santa not give you any presents? No objective links provided in your post, just ranting & raving with unfounded claims = flamebait.

 

The worst part is that it's not a troll, I've seen this myself several times on this forum where someone linked Fox News and the source was not a good source. Fox plays to an audience like it or not. Same with MSNBC or hell even CNN. Best non-bias major media I've heard is NPR and they totally have a liberal bias but damned if they won't let both sides make idiots out of themselves.

 

Fox and MSNBC are two halves of the same coin. One is a far right propaganda machine and one is a far left one.

The only legit news source that leans right is One America. They have a conservative bias, but will not outright lie and purposely distort facts to fit their politcal views. They report both sides, try their damnest to make sure all facts are known, and they are damn good about fact checking.

 

And most liberals still think Sarah Palin can see Russia from her house.

Oh yea, that source came from an SNL skit.

You folks have no room to judge anyone.

lol

 

I personally was more worried about her thinking "what do you read" is gotcha journalism.

However, while she never actually said the " I know about Russia cause I can see it from my house" line. She did on multiple occassions when questioned about foreign policy, claim that Russia's close proximity to Alaska gave her some special insight into how to deal with them, despite no interactions between Alaska and Russia occurring while she was governor. That is where the skit came from. It was a parody of her actual claims. Her only ACTUAL foreign policy experience would have been dealing with Canadian inuits who crossed the border illegally.

 

Now you are making things up
No one believes she said that
Why would you make up something that is not true

 

All networks have their little agenda, it is just the cable news networks are more open, overt about it. Fox is more pro Republican, MSNBC and CNN are very pro Democrat. The over the air networks are a lot more covert about it. So I am not surprised one bit that a news networks would report something completely untrue without double checking. Each network has their targeted audience and a desire to keep their viewers happy. CNN and MSNBC will basically only broadcast good news stories about Obama, Fox bad. Fox will omit the good things that Obama has done and CNN and MSNBC will omit the bad thing Obama does or blame them on the Republicans.

Such is the state of our cable news networks. Nothing should surprise you.

 

Fox News viewership ratings beat out CNN, PBS and MSNBC combined.

Get over it!

 

Fox is not just "pro republican". A slight bias could be forgiven. They purposely and intentionally distort facts, and lie, through selective editing, or simply making (*)(*)(*)(*) up, to make the news fit their far right views. MSNBC does the same thing for the far left. They are not news. They are propaganda machines and have no right to ever be called journalists.

Hell, Fox fired the only two actual journalists to ever work for them because they refused to drop a story as a favor to one of Rupert Murdoch's friends. They were planning a story on Monsanto knowing using growth hormones which caused cancer in their milk cows, and that their milk had these hormones in it. Monsanto executives asked Murdoch to kill the story, and he ordered it killed. These two reporters refused and were fired. They sued on the grounds that Fox illegally fired them for refusing to break the law and that theey were protected as whistleblowers. They initially won, but lost in an appeal.

Fox's only defense, that there iiis nothing illegal about them intentionally misinforming ther viewers, evenn if the lie endangers their health. Now there are such laws. Reporters can not be fired for refusing to drop or edit stories which involve threats to public health, if they can prove the facts support the story.

 

MSNBC and to a lesser extent does the same thing for the left. I suppose it is all about one's particular political point of view which is worst than the other. I think one should acknowledge the lean of these networks and keep that in mind when listening. Knowing each has their own political agenda and wish to support a political party.

 

And the liberal bias MSM in particular CBS News ran with a compter generated forgery letter hoping to throw a Presidential election in 2000. Anyone back in 2000 who was an adult would know by looking at the font of the documents that were supposedly from 1971-72 that there was no Microsoft Words back during the 1970's, the U.S. military was still using type writers. There were no PC's or laser printers back in 1971.

I'm referring to the "Killian documents."

 

Never heard of them, I'll have to give them a shot. Yeah totally agree about Fox/MSNBC. They need several reality shows together, could be fun.

 

Yep, you got us. Ratings over facts. Fear mongering over truth. It is easy to scare people towards your view. It takes a little more work to convince them with knowledge.

You want to sell gold? You want to sell reverse mortgages? Go on right wing radio. There is a market for that crap. Limbaugh and Swaggart will regale you with undeniably huge audience numbers.

Good luck with Jimmy. He sort of crapped out, there. And Rush is still 'just a lovable big ole bear', but his poisonous divisiveness will eventually undo him, as well.

 

They also have a history of switching the party affiliations of political types accused of improprieties.

Very often a GOP politician who is accused of malfeasance will "mistakenly" have a (D) after his name in a picture chyron

 

They use the fake stories on purpose because their viewers like what they hear on the fake sites.

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yes seem that especially when the perp is arrested for a sex crime

 

Yada yada,yada

Have anything of substance to back up your allegation?
Something that's not from some radical left wing website?

Anything that proves Fox News is any less factual in reporting the news than NBC, CBS CNN or ABC???

Now, go ahead and fade away like I know you will!

 

FAUX Noise is the MOST popular cable news (news LOL) network. However, telling your audience exactly what they want to hear is certain to make any network popular among those who wish to remain completely uninformed and unaware of the truth.

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Which only proves that only old people watch TV for news. The younger generations stream their news, or get it from smart devices. The things that fox news viewers can't figure out how to use.

 

Yeah, the young people that are stupid enough to spend 6 years on a worthless degree only to be strapped for a 70k student loan.

 

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Good reason for that, their audience, demographically, is 55 years old and above, with nothing better to do than stare at a TV all day.....but they are dying off and are not being replaced with younger viewers, who see Fox news as a joke. -- Fox News Inches Closer To Death As Its Median Audience Dropped In 2014
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Sorry pal, everyone get older and wiser!

 

Frankly I do not limit my news consumption to any limited number of platforms. There will always be younger generations that get bamboozled by such sources and get led by the nose because it's vogue of their contemporaries thus displacing true news with propaganda. I don't trust anyone's opinion that they somehow have the 'best' unbiased source of news. Here's a 'newsflash'...It's ALL biased....HIGHLY biased as a matter of fact. Mostly liberal for the MSM which is ubiquitous and has a much greater demographic as compared to Fox. The MSM, CNN, MSNBC and PBS combined form just one big liberal echo-chamber.

 

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Fox News does prove one axiom; "You are never too old to learn something stupid,"

 

I noticed that too. They call it a "typo" whenenever they get caught doing it. If I was the DNC, I would try to sue them for slander. Even if it did not stick, making a very public lawsuit which brings like to the fact that Fox protects the Republican party by falsely claiming that any Republican who is accused of a crime is a democrat. A good lawyer could argue that it is a malicious attempt to defame the democrat party by claiming their members are criminals.