Fox "News" Admits It's Opinion, Not News

[joreth]

http://www.pensitoreview.com/2009/10/12/fox-admits-it-traffics-in-propaganda-not-news/

Fox Admits on CNN That It Traffics in Opinion Not News
Jon Ponder | Oct. 12, 2009

After a brief but concerted challenge by the White House to the credibility of Fox News Channel as a legitimate news organization - including a detailed takedown by Communications

Comments

[leora]

Oh good. Another problem that may simply solve itself with time as the bigots die off. Then we get marriage equality and fewer Fox news viewers.

(Note, I don't really like the whole thought of lots of people dying, even of old age. But I do like the thought of social problems solving themselves peacefully. And since we can't cure old age and keeping these people alive forever is not an option, might as well look at the upside to it.)

[joreth]

I hadn't heard that, but my bias against Faux News makes me not surprised to hear of such a thing.

The sad part is that so few people don't know about these things. It's not like the Daily Show, which is completely up front about its entertainment focus that just happens to use current events as the platform for the entertainment. So that's why I'm re-printing the article, to help get the news out when Faux News refuses to be transparent about its motives.

I even did something I very rarely do. I mass-emailed my family. Normally I stick to posting things in my journal, where I know people have to want to read it, because they have to either come here or they had to friend me to do it. But some things need to be told whether the recipient wants to hear or not.