If once is a fluke...Follow

...and twice is a coincidence, and three times is a trend, then what would eight times be?

According to this tally, that's how many times FOX News has had to apologize this year for using fake videos incorrect captions, and once even presenting a Republican press release as their own research. Strangely, every single one of these incidences occurred in such a way as to make the Republican party look better/more popular and the Democratic party look worse.

Anyone surprised that this is where Virus gets his information?

The Fox Networks really went downhill about the same time they took Married with Children off the air.

I'm not saying Fox News is a front for a club of pedophiles, but isn't it interesting that they send so many reporters to east Asia and isn't it interesting--just the slightest bit--that none of them have been willing to take a polygraph test asserting the contrary? Am I the only one brave enough to ask these questions?

Edited, Nov 20th 2009 4:44am by Allegory

Faux News.

Tells the hard of thinking what to believe.

It works too!

If Fox News is "Fair and Balanced" for going so far as to sue to air incorrect information as actual news, then isn't The Onion the fairest and most balanced news source ever?

It wasn't seven mistakes, it was seven apologies for using outright fake video and captions to make "their guys" look better.

Frankly, when I'm over at Grandma's house getting my dose of Fox, it's hard to ignore the fact that they spend as much time selling themselves as they do reporting. I don't know that I've ever heard someone on CNN discuss ratings, but I hear it every time we're watching Fox.

If you have a citation of a time when MSNBC presented a Democrat press release as actual data, please do share it. I'll be happy to condemn them too.

But you don't have a cite, because it hasn't happened. You're just trying to deflect from the seriousness of these infractions of the public trust with the old "But but but!!! The other guy is just as bad!"

Cite or GTFO.

Let's be clear here. Fox didn't just use a GOP talking point to highlight a story. They used claims from a GOP press release WORD FOR WORD (including typos) as though it were actual DATA.

So once again, I say: cite, or GTFO. Because I'm not even remotely impressed with the blustering and hemming and hawing.

It's funny how Fox's local news stations are usually pretty good (as was the story in the Zelda clip). I watch Fox's St. Louis station every day. They have absolutely none of the crazy of the national brand.