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Originally Posted by ICFire
Jomo and Tantic
You all let us know when any of the other majors are caught as often as fox is with their pants down... mislabeling people, making **** up and splicing video from other events and reporting it as something different...
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Remind me why Dan Rather got fired again?
ANYONE that claims that Fox is singular in deceptive reporting is a ****ing moron (IE ICFire). To even think that they are the worst at it is also a joke. THEY ALL DO IT.
The real tragedy is that with all news outlets, if a particular piece of news doesn't support their particular political viewpoint it gets either ignored or marginalized. There was a time in this country where the news reporters attempted to just report the facts, leaving opinion, slant and analysis to the oped pages.
Worse now is the interview. Nowadays, much like polling questions, the art of the interview is simply asking the questions you want to ask that projects the pov you want to get across. It's not "hard hitting journalism" unless it's asking the tough questions to someone you dislike.
I tend to think that the news reporting changed after the Tet Offensive in 1968. Prior to Tet, newscasters (like Walter Chronkite) tended to simply report what they were told, especially by the whitehouse. Before Tet, the government was telling them the war was almost over, the VC beaten, and the US military was victorious. After Tet, even though it was a terrible military defeat to the North, western reporters were shocked to see such a large scale uprising, which was counter to what the white house was telling them all that time before.
And then My lai happened just a couple months later.
At that time in our country, most people were classically democratic (not todays liberal progressives) but had trust in our government. Both LBJ and Nixon completely destroyed that.
So, today we're left with a sharply divided country and it doesn't make things any better when our own government demonizes large segments of the population for political points. You would've thought that electing a black man into the white house would've helped heal some racial issues, but in fact it's only made things worse. For that alone, electing Barack Obama was probably the worst thing this country could've done. Now, race is a constant drumbeat, stirring hatred and distrust, dividing the country along cultural lines as well as class. Race is used as a club, beating down dissent and causing even more unrest.
And most of you on this forum fall for it. You just keep parrotting the same bull****. I have never seen so many bigoted racist hypocritical people in my life.