Fox "News" tries to present it self as an honest news outlet, with its slogan - "We Report. You Decide." Yet anyone visiting their site today comes away thinking their true slogan is "We Distort, You're Deceived."
On the site was their poll saying "The White House is still attacking Fox "News", 10 days after its original comments. Why?" Now few people put much value in an internet poll, especially one on the Fox "News" site. The keys to a poll's accuracy are solid questions and a random audience. Granted Fox can't control who answers the questions, but they can control the questions.
So what are the questions?
- They want to shoot the messenger
- They don't have a good case to make
- They confuse News and Opinion
- I don't know
Hmm, how about "Fox "News" IS biased? Nope, not single option to offer anything other the Fox "News" party line. And conservatives complain about Obama supporters not willing to stomach any dissent. Sounds like the conservatives are those people in reality.
Unfortunately all of this is uncomfortable for the media and the drum beat of the people asking them to investigate the so-called news practices of Fox "News" are growing louder. Media "critics" like the Washington Post's Howard Kurtz say "When Fox does something that I find questionable, such as Sean Hannity unfairly truncating an Obama sound bite or a Fox producer whipping up a protest crowd to get a better live shot, I'm critical," yet stuff like this happens on a daily, or possibly hourly basis. How often does Kurtz really bother to investigate Fox? (But then who could stomach it?)
While Fox may be loving this so-called War on Fox, in reality it is a War on Obama and Fox "News" is leading the charge and the media are bystanders, letting the profession they work in be tarnished by Fox. Do they not care or do they not want to care?
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