Fox News Officially Freaking Out About Google’s Plan To Rank Sites By ‘Accuracy’ (VIDEO) [View all]

[ashling]

http://www.addictinginfo.org/2015/03/07/fox-news-officially-freaking-out-about-googles-plan-to-rank-sites-by-accuracy-video/

All of this plays into a recurring nightmare constantly running through the heads of conservatives. Their detachment from reality, whether it be regarding climate change or tax cuts, is constantly coming under threat from inconvenient facts emerging in the real world. Many of their ideas have very weak foundations and if suddenly their websites – Fox News’ included – were subject to the expectation of being verifiably true, it’s understandably frightening.

Add to that the common belief that “mainstream” media/culture/science is firmly in the liberal camp, and it’s easy to see how some conservatives may worry that Google’s database of “facts” would be skewed against them. Unable to resist putting too fine a point on it, the Fox segment specifically cites the fact that websites that claim President Obama was born in Kenya would be sunk with this new system.

I was looking in the dictionary at the various connotations of engage and found this one:

14. to cross weapons; enter into conflict:
"The armies engaged early in the morning."

Their example could easily be "Fox News engaged reality ... and reality won."

reality is not a concept with which they want to engage,