Help me out here - fox facts,..er, facts about fox

[ashling]

And before anybody tells me google is my friend:

Are you implying that DU isn't?

I'm putting together a verifyable list of lies, misrepresentations,inability to work within the facts, etc. at Fox

I have suggested to my students that they might not want to rely on Fox for their news (one started out the semester in her introduction saying that she was well versed in current events because she watches Fox news on her lunch hour where she works!) They keep posting articles from Fox in their current events journals.
I am about to make say some things about the reliability of their reporting, and I want to be able to back it up.

Thank you.

[Lionel Mandrake]

1. I am never exposed to Fox News (so called)

except when I get my hair cut. I go to an old-fashioned barber shop, and the barbers there are all conservatives.

What I have gleaned from this limited experience of Fox News is that there is very little reporting on it. Instead, there are lots of opinions about why Obama is a bad president, why liberals are ruining the country, etc. The problem is that an opinion can not be proven wrong. You don't need any particular expertise, nor do you need to know very many facts, in order to have an opinion. If your opinions are conservative enough, you might have a future at Fox News. DUers are not likely to fall into that category, nor are they likely to spend a lot of time watching Fox News, although it might be worthwhile to do so as a research project, just as it is worthwhile for a psychiatrist to observe mental patients.

[Angry Dragon]

2. Teach them Research

Have them backtrack what they hear on Fox and go the source.

If they are unable to verify what Fox spews then it is just opinion as stated above and
has no basis as news

edit: this might be better posted in GD

[trof]

3. I see you're in Texas.

I'm afraid it's hopeless.
I live in Alabama.
It's hopeless here, too.
:-(

[rurallib]

4. One of their biggest sins is ommission - never giving the whole story

I seldom watch or listen to them (eg FOX has a 5 minute radio news blurb. Hannity et al. have radio shows).
One I can think of immediately is carrying nothing on OWS for several days. In the same vein, tight crowd shots at bagger rallies that make crowds seem large.
Who can forget their pic of a confrontation in "Wisconsin" last February with the palm trees in the background.

Often they leave out vital information reporting stories - of course you only realize that if you know the real story.
I have never done so, but I think it would be quite interesting to compare the same story as covered by FUX and Al-Jazeera or DemocracyNow!

one more - if you heard about the interview they did with Jesse La Greca - FUX buried it never to see the light of day.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vhO3dTdp6ek

[Tyrs WolfDaemon]

5. Arctic foxes aren't white all the time

Oh, wait, you meant that Fox.
Sorry, I can't help, but I hope these two little Arctic Foxes (the good kind of Fox ) cheer you up some.

[MrScorpio]

6. Point your student to these guys...

http://www.newshounds.us/