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Oh I do look at the entire industry critically. MSNBC messes up too, for instance, they just recently used a bunch of pictures of palin in a news report, except they were old photohopped pictures of people with palins head. They apologized for that, but it took a whole weekend which is pretty bad.

On the other hand, fox is consistently doing things like putting (D) on a republican who they don't like. This has happened something like 4 or 5 times in the last few months, which starts to put it beyond accident, although I'm sure no one explicitly told someone to do that. Another example is the demonstration where they used the wrong picture recently. An innocuous mistake, that really doesn't raise many eyebrows. Except for the fact that it was blatant, and they didn't say anything about it until they were called out on the daily show, they should have internally made an apology the next day. They make a lot of pretty flagrant mistakes, and make them repeatedly. They however never seem to make any mistakes that don't improve their case.

Edited, Nov 20th 2009 10:12pm by Xsarus

Gbaji, I've worked in television. I've worked for a television station that did a newscast covering the mid-lower 2/3s of the state. I am not an expert, nor have I worked for Fox but I have enough experience to know that you're just blindly guessing here. Unless you have something a lot more convincing than "Yeah, but I bet it was this!", I'm not really interested in watching you pull stuff out of your *** and pretend to have any degree of authority in explaining to us how it all goes down.

Hey, remember when you insisted that guests on news programs pay the network to have them on there? Really, your knowledge of the news media is astounding.

Now, just so we're clear, I have no interest in trying to convince you that Fox's record in the past year (and beyond) is absolutely absurd. You've already proven that you will mentally fabricate whatever stories required and spit them out with all sincerity when you feel your worldview is threatened. Really, you're Fox's perfect customer.

And, as you feebly try to throw out the CBS incident one last time, let me say again that I have no problem condemning CBS for the story, whether they obtained false documents they didn't attempt to athenticate or created them themselves. But that doesn't really have jack all to do with NBC, ABC, MSNBC, CNN, PBS, etc. I know Fox viewers are under the impression that the media world is divided between "Fox" and "Everyone else is the Liberal Media" but, at best, you're just telling us that we shouldn't give any respect to CBS or Fox and should choose one of the other many news organizations -- ones who don't air forged documents or creatively air the wrong footage, edit audio clips and have oh-so-many! zany intern "mistakes".

Edited, Nov 21st 2009 9:43am by Jophiel