Faux whiffs on the truth..........again.

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  1. Lee Atwater

    Lee Atwater Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    ABC News and The Post last weekend published the results of a poll with some bad news for President Biden. What happened after that was a touch scandalous, if you believe Fox News host Dana Perino. “I thought it was amazing that ABC News would do this poll, commission a poll, work on the poll, and then not report on the poll,” said Perino in a Tuesday segment hosted by daytime anchor Martha MacCallum.

    What actually happened...https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/biden-struggles-party-democrats-2024-poll/story?id=90427262

    https://abcnews.go.com/US/video/ame...-supreme-courts-elimination-abortion-90525803

    A prominent mention of the poll on the network’s marquee Sunday morning show “This Week” with George Stephanopoulos.

    A three-minute package on the poll results on “World News Sunday.” White House correspondent MaryAlice Parks noted that a majority of Democrats want “the party to replace President Biden at the top of the ticket in 2024.”

    · Multiple postings on social media, including this tweet:


    https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/09/28/perino-fox-news-abc-news/

    The article goes on to say the author, Erik Wemple, reached out to Faux for comment but it declined. Cuz, better to just not acknowledge another segment full of lies and move on. Segments like that one being the rule, not the exception. Admonish the anchor for lying? Don't be silly. It's what Faux's business model is built on.
     
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    This network is in a really jam of their own creation. They are further down the victim rabbit hole they fed their viewers non stop and now their viewers demand the partisan spin or they will leave. Truth and Fox, nowhere near each other.
     
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  3. Lee Atwater

    Lee Atwater Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    They have some competition for eyeballs they didn't have for years from conservative TV broadcasts even more batshyte crazy than they are. Their response, de-emphasize the news programming and pump up the volume on opinion oriented shows. Giving them more opportunity for the kinds of outlandish lies/propaganda spewed by Hannity and Carlson. Leaving their audience misinformed........the goal they've established since their inception.
     
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    I've watched Newsmax, for example, they are totally ****ed as a News network. They are all vying now to be Trump's propaganda arm.
     
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    Lee Atwater Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    Conservative networks understand that as the party they serve becomes increasingly radicalized, and more conspiratorial, they need to give the audience what it wants. The full on CRAZY.
    Given the opportunity to correct the record on the ABC poll, Faux management decided to leave their audience believing the disinformation Perrino spewed because that is seen as a win.
     
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    I understand Fox's continuous attempts to fool their gullible audience. That's how they make their money.

    But I still can't quite grasp why some Republicans don't understand that the ONLY purpose of the MSM is to PROFIT. Like ANY other private business in our Capitalist society.

    Whether it's reporting Trump's crimes, or Biden's low approval numbers... if they get people to consume their product, and cater to their advertiser... that's all that matters to them. There is no "hidden agenda". This is and has ALWAYS been out in the open.

    Conspiracy Theorist will have none of that, though....
     
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    Doofenshmirtz Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    They are just selling a product they know their audience is eager to consume. No different that the left media nipples.
     
  8. Lee Atwater

    Lee Atwater Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    The difference being between content from a liberal perspective (MSNBC) and overt disinformation (Faux). There has never been anything close to the kinds of bigoted, dishonest deceit Carlson broadcasts on a regular basis coming from left of center news networks.

    This is a disgrace to reputable journalists...........https://www.politifact.com/article/2021/nov/05/tucker-carlsons-patriot-purge-film-jan-6-full-fals/

    The few that Faux had have left.
     
  9. Lee Atwater

    Lee Atwater Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    Here's just one, rather pedestrian, lie Faux told. Pedestrian only because Faux lies all the time, every day, multiple times.

    Fox promoted false talking point that protesting parents were labeled terrorists more than 400 times

    A federal judge appointed by Donald Trump dismissed a lawsuit against Attorney General Merrick Garland on Friday, noting that a memo Garland issued in October 2021 “does not label anyone a domestic terrorist, as the plaintiffs suggest." The ruling puts the kibosh on a false talking point that Fox News had promoted more than 400 times since the memo’s release, according to a Media Matters review.

    Last year, an alliance of conservative think tankers and activists, right-wing media figures, and Republican politicians sought partisan gain by stoking anger against school boards and educators. For months, they inundated the right-wing base with false and incendiary claims that children were supposedly being taught “critical race theory.” On Fox News, propagandists described this academic legal framework which examines the systemic impact of racism as a “civilization-ending poison” that “threatens to overturn the advances of human civilization over the last 500 years.”

    https://www.mediamatters.org/critic...nt-protesting-parents-were-labeled-terrorists
     
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    Of course people believe they worship the only true god. They believe their source is closer to truth than the others. I do not suckle from either of the partisan media nipples so I will not be defending one or the other. If so many people can believe they are right while being wrong, what makes your belief any different?

    Its all BS.
     
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    and here is the BS part of the thread where he tries to portray left wing MSM as the wholesome ones
     
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    he’s been suckling too long on those media nipples to know that this applies to all the MSM

    they trained him well
     
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    It’s news and people write stories and posts about it when Fox gets something wrong. When CNN does it it’s just CNN.
     
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    Delete
     
  15. Lee Atwater

    Lee Atwater Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    Your string of false equivalences remains intact.
     
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    Lee Atwater Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    I can't count how many times I've challenged any poster who disparages the sources I use to refute the factual content of what I have posted from a given article. You folks are very good at making allegations and silent when it comes to putting up or shutting up.
     
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    Darthcervantes Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    NO! you can't claim that the LEFT MSM is so wholesome and good and RIGHT MSM is oh-so-evil

    They are BOTH profit driven business

    Now I've seen people come in here from the right and admit this but you are so in love with the left that they can do no wrong
    You just got called OUT on hypocrisy

    I love putting the left in their place
    why do you make it so easy?
     
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    Lee Atwater Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    I'm not going to defend what I didn't say. Get it right.
     
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    Darthcervantes Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    You said this "There has never been anything close to the kinds of bigoted, dishonest deceit Carlson broadcasts on a regular basis coming from left of center news networks."
    and that is all LIES
    All of the bigotted stuff on news comes from Joy Reid (mostly) and some of it from Don Lemon
     
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    Lee Atwater Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    Prove it.
     
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    Doofenshmirtz Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    You are far from correct. You may not agree with my belief that everything coming out of partisan media sources is BS until proven otherwise, but that doesn't make it false. Please tell us which media outlet is unbiased and truthful:
     
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    I just did!
     
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    How about you challenging me when you disparage Fox with this?
    That is impossible.
     
  24. Lee Atwater

    Lee Atwater Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    You made an unsubstantiated assertion. Prove it.
     
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    Lee Atwater Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    I didn't say MSNBC, for instance, is unbiased. I already acknowledged they report the news from a liberal perspective. They just don't repeatedly tell overt lies as part of their routine programming like Faux. But I do understand your need to claim "they are all alike" since it's a way to give Faux a pass.
     

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