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RapierFugue -> RE: Fox News tells us why!! (8/25/2009 2:20:39 AM)
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ORIGINAL: GoDolphins
If it's just as bad, why focus only on the one source? Bias, pure and simple. Someone didn't like Fox News, saw something on there that is questionable at best and relates to this forum, and posted it on here to ridicule Fox News. I really personally think USA Today has more responsibility for posting about a "bad" study than those who post about it afterwards. I'm not really sure you can blame the media for this at all though. If a study comes out, somebody's going to report on it.
My watching of Shepard Smith aside, I'm not really a big fan of Fox News either, and some of the complaints I've heard about them and their reporting are legitimate (not necessarily anything I've read on this thread though). But I never have understood what exactly makes Fox News the devil to so many people beyond the fact they're the one major TV news outlet that happens to be conservative.
While there is a real discussion about the study that's gone on here, let's face it, this thread was really started as an attack on Fox News, and there have been posts here which have done little more than jump on that train.
By the way, I'm not against USA Today either, and I seriously question the study as well for some reasons that have already been stated. I blame the people who did the study more than any media members who reported it if it's a bad study.
Not living in the US, I'm not really interested in the left vs. right wing pissing contest that is the criticism of various news organisations - I really couldn't give a flying fuck who reported it, all I'm interested in is the fact it's a load of tosh being presented as "fact", and that whoever decided to pick up on the story couldn't be arsed to do even some elementary research of their own.
Part of this is undoubtedly down to the dumbing-down in general of both news presentation and journalists themselves. I worked for ITN about 20 years ago (not as a journalist, I might add), and standards have unquestionably taken a nosedive. Should we be bothered about that? Well yes, I think we should; a populace that’s patronised and talked down to will almost inevitably dumb itself down without recourse to other influences, and the more stupid our societies become, the worse they become, most especially where tolerance is concerned.
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