Fox & Friends: Fox News' Top Misinformer Of 2011

[silverpig]

It's because of Fox News that I am particularly thankful we have the CBC in Canada.

 

[werepossum]

Doesn't really matter who has assembled these examples. They are imbedded as video clips. They speak for themselves. Some of the examples given are not that persuasive, like the one you mentioned above, but many of the others are.

I wouldn't deny that Fox News leans to the right, just as other networks lean to the left. Murdoch, himself a lefty by US standards at least, has literally made a fortune recognizing that the left owned the media in the UK and the US. If you want to see equivalent examples on the other side, subscribe to TimesWatch or see Brent Bozell's site.

It's because of Fox News that I am particularly thankful we have the CBC in Canada.

Yeah, your government is taking care of you. Canada approved al-Jazeera before Fox News.

 

[Fern]

Fox & Friends: Fox News' Top Misinformer Of 2011

FFS, it's just a morning 'chat show'.

It's just 3 people of dubious credentials (other than being able to show up at a gawd awful early hour and not look grumpy) sitting around BS'ing about stuff hitting the news. Often they're talking about so early in the news cycle it hasn't yet been vetted. Really nothing much more than talking about rumors and first reaction. Anyone complaining about this might as well complain about the quality of steaks on McDonald's menu. Talk about looking for stuff in all the wrong places. Keeeyrist, who are these people but an old beauty queen and a couple of ex-(local) weathermen?

Fern

 

[woolfe9999]

I wouldn't deny that Fox News leans to the right, just as other networks lean to the left. Murdoch, himself a lefty by US standards at least, has literally made a fortune recognizing that the left owned the media in the UK and the US. If you want to see equivalent examples on the other side, subscribe to TimesWatch or see Brent Bozell's site.

I think the point here is not that Fox News has a right wing slant, but that it gets its facts wrong. It's actually possible to have a political viewpoint while sticking to the facts - the real ones, that is.

 

[werepossum]

I think the point here is not that Fox News has a right wing slant, but that it gets its facts wrong. It's actually possible to have a political viewpoint while sticking to the facts - the real ones, that is.

There might be a point to made there, but not by Media Matters. Entries such as "Fox & Friends Promoted The Myth That The Stimulus Failed" is NOT stating a factual error, it's arguing a political point that's arguable from either side. Certainly the stimulus never did anything near what it was hyped to do; certainly it helped stop the bleeding, in my opinion about all that can be expected from stimulus spending. Arguing that the stimulus succeeded is as unprovable as arguing that the stimulus failed, yet Media Matters is arguing that one is factual and one is false.

Similarly, Media Matters states: "Doocy: Birth Certificate Produced By Obama's Campaign "Is Not The Exact Birth Certificate." After airing Trump's birther claims from an appearance on ABC's The View, Doocy stated during the March 24 edition of Fox & Friends that the Obama "campaign did produce -- before the election -- something called a certificate of live birth, which is not the exact birth certificate, but something that the state says indicates that he was born there." What Doocy said - that a Certificate of Live Birth is not "the" exact birth certificate, which contains much more information - is exactly accurate, as is widely known, yet Media Matters is calling it false. It's one thing to allege bias in inviting Trump to air such ridiculous views, but Media Matters is being blatantly dishonest here.

This goes back to my point that Media Matters is merely a left wing agitprop organization, a far step below Fox News in credibility.

 

[Ausm]

There might be a point to made there, but not by Media Matters. Entries such as "Fox & Friends Promoted The Myth That The Stimulus Failed" is NOT stating a factual error, it's arguing a political point that's arguable from either side. Certainly the stimulus never did anything near what it was hyped to do; certainly it helped stop the bleeding, in my opinion about all that can be expected from stimulus spending. Arguing that the stimulus succeeded is as unprovable as arguing that the stimulus failed, yet Media Matters is arguing that one is factual and one is false.

Similarly, Media Matters states: "Doocy: Birth Certificate Produced By Obama's Campaign "Is Not The Exact Birth Certificate." After airing Trump's birther claims from an appearance on ABC's The View, Doocy stated during the March 24 edition of Fox & Friends that the Obama "campaign did produce -- before the election -- something called a certificate of live birth, which is not the exact birth certificate, but something that the state says indicates that he was born there." What Doocy said - that a Certificate of Live Birth is not "the" exact birth certificate, which contains much more information - is exactly accurate, as is widely known, yet Media Matters is calling it false. It's one thing to allege bias in inviting Trump to air such ridiculous views, but Media Matters is being blatantly dishonest here.

This goes back to my point that Media Matters is merely a left wing agitprop organization, a far step below Fox News in credibility.

LOL really? I love how you gloss over the facts and believe Fox News is credible.

 

[Lonbjerg]

Funny how the fallacy is used to defend Fox Fiction is "Hey look at this other guy"....classy LOL

 

[thraashman]

I wouldn't deny that Fox News leans to the right, just as other networks lean to the left. Murdoch, himself a lefty by US standards at least, has literally made a fortune recognizing that the left owned the media in the UK and the US. If you want to see equivalent examples on the other side, subscribe to TimesWatch or see Brent Bozell's site.

Fox News leans to the right about as much as Michael Moore leans to the left. The difference is that the frequency of honesty from Michael Moore is significantly higher ... and even the left thinks he's mostly full of shit.