Common Knowledge

[sandwichwarrior]

This post started as a response to Jeff's but started to get overly heavy and in keeping with the monthly topic so here it is in it's own thread

Comments

[anfalicious]

I think the issue comes where Fox viewers believe the evidence against AGW is more credible than it is (I'm not going to say it shouldn't be analysed, it should, that's part of the scientific method, but it seems fairly well dealt with to me) and that they think there is any possibility of Sharia law. There's people out there who want to be Emperor of the world, it doesn't mean we should be worried about that as a possibility.

This is what Fox does so well, it dogwhistles and massages and manipulates until they have people believing things that just are not true.

[sandwichwarrior]

True, but this is something we all do and does not adress the issue that sometimes they are right but will be discounted simply because they are who they are.

As I said, everyone knows Bush lied, never mind the inconvient evidence.

[gunslnger]

As do CNN and MSNBC. Unless you're just saying that they aren't as good at it.

[blue_mangos]

Do they also routinely put (R) behind the names of Democrat politicians caught in scandals?

[gunslnger]

I don't know, I don't watch them. But implying that it's routine for only Fox to make typos is a sign of either ignorance or idiocy.

[ironhawke]

Typo is assuming a lack of deliberate action. Fox frequently does these sorts of videological twists to reinforce the issues they're trying to push. I.e. Putting (D) behind the names of Republicans in hot water, and of course the most recent example of "Obama Bin Ladin is dead."

Considering the consistency of these "typos" it goes beyond simple incompetence and into the realm of deliberate misinformation. (Some quick google-fu shows no comparable examples of MSNBC or CNN doing the same thing.)

[gunslnger]

Fox frequently does these sorts of videological twists to reinforce the issues they're trying to push.

That's an assumption and is essentially slander. I know people who do the graphics for news shows and they make errors all the time, and some of them get on the air.

Considering the consistency of these "typos" it goes beyond simple incompetence and into the realm of deliberate misinformation.

That's not the only conclusion that can be logically derived from "consistency of typos".

[anfalicious]

Nowhere near as good.

[sandwichwarrior]

Basically yes.

[anfalicious]

Rupert Murdoch is an IRL Bond villain.