Current or modern politics in the United States

[SanteeFats]

Originally Posted by jumbo prawns

The short response, want me to stop taking Fox News to task? Simply stop posting their BS speaking points and hypocritical spin.

And then there are my posts that usually get the accusation of following the Fox line even when I have no idea of what that line is. Ah well the great are rarely recognized while still alive.

[jumbo prawns]

Originally Posted by SanteeFats

And then there are my posts that usually get the accusation of following the Fox line even when I have no idea of what that line is. Ah well the great are rarely recognized while still alive.

Just a coincidence then I guess... Of course that violates Rule #39.

[hound dog]

We all know you don't "watch" Fox news, SF, but lets talk about that chip you had implanted in your cerebellum.

[SanteeFats]

Originally Posted by hound dog

We all know you don't "watch" Fox news, SF, but lets talk about that chip you had implanted in your cerebellum.

Hey they won't let me talk about umm what did you ask?
No I watch and listen. CNN too. Plus the almighty internet and its ruler Wiki!

[SanteeFats]

Originally Posted by jumbo prawns

Just a coincidence then I guess... Of course that violates Rule #39.

Well it can happen. Rule 39? Rules! Rules! I don't need no stinking rules!!

[ubu55]

Originally Posted by jumbo prawns

...almost every time I'm here correcting something that someone else posted. Often being asked for and almost always delivering quotes, links and documentation to support the correction. I do watch Fox News regularly, though not for new, more for entertainment.

The short response, want me to stop taking Fox News to task? Simply stop posting their BS speaking points and hypocritical spin.

Okay, fighting the good fight against inaccuracy wherever you find it... obviously you take your work here very seriously.
Good luck with that!

[Tarkus666]

Originally Posted by ubu55

Okay, fighting the good fight against inaccuracy wherever you find it... obviously you take your work here very seriously.
Good luck with that!

Well you do have admit that the news structure of Fox News is not standard. They run their 'opinion shows' first because under FCC rules you cannot utilize opinion for news and then as the day goes on their News shows begin to start quoting the opinion shows as valid sources, (which circumvents the FCC rules which never conceived a cable news network let alone where such a practice was possible).

The practice might be legal but it borders on unethical.

[SanteeFats]

Originally Posted by Tarkus666

Well you do have admit that the news structure of Fox News is not standard. They run their 'opinion shows' first because under FCC rules you cannot utilize opinion for news and then as the day goes on their News shows begin to start quoting the opinion shows as valid sources, (which circumvents the FCC rules which never conceived a cable news network let alone where such a practice was possible).

The practice might be legal but it borders on unethical.

Ethics from news If there were any they would report without a bias to said reports. Mine included.

[Tarkus666]

Originally Posted by SanteeFats

Ethics from news If there were any they would report without a bias to said reports. Mine included.

Despite the false claims from the conservatives the real mainstream news organizations, (NBC, CBS and ABC... each of which dwarfs all of the cable news networks combined in terms of viewership), put forward what the FCC envisaged as news reporting. It is called "liberal biased" because when someone on ABC reports that Sarah Palin believes that men co-existed with dinosaurs this effort is taken as liberal bias rather than what it is; reporting the fact that Sarah Palin believes that humans and dinosaurs co-existed even though such a statement is absurd.

Simply reporting facts is not biased. The fact that so many conservatives say stupid things is what it is which is to be expected when you pander to intellectually derivative 15% but it is not 'biased' just because the reporting points out intellectual defect.

[scoundrel]

Originally Posted by Tarkus666

Simply reporting facts is not biased. The fact that so many conservatives say stupid things is what it is which is to be expected when you pander to intellectually derivative 15% but it is not 'biased' just because the reporting points out intellectual defect.

But do they also report the shit-bucket stupid things which are uttered by supposedly liberal politicians and spokesmen? Back in the day, Edward Kennedy was a very reliable source of ignorant and malignant rubbish, what we in the UK would call a true gobshite. Dear old Hillary has been picked up a few times in the British media (mainly the BBC) for grossly embellishing facts anecdotally, for example claiming that her aircraft was fired on when she landed somewhere in Bosnia during the Former Yougoslavia civil wars of the 1990s; turns out it wasn't. Senator Claire McCaskill has been a fairly reliable source of verbal diarrhoea in the recent past. To be fair, none of these people is/was as prolific in the emmision of relentless stupidity as Mrs Palin or for that matter Mr Limbaugh (though where has Glenn Beck gone lately?); a fair and unbiased media doesn't report two opposed sides equally unless both are generating equal quantities of undigested bullshit, but will reflect source production volumes in the proportions of idiocy reported at their end.