Has Fox News sunk to a new low ? When did telling the truth become helping the Terrorists?

Question

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In my opinion, CNN and especially MSNBC delight in showing Iraqi violence because they want Americans to think badly of President Bush. And that strategy has succeeded.
Bill O Reilly

Whats wrong with him? Now you can't even report the news isn't that what journalists do? Sorry Fox but Yes war is hell.

Answer 1

Fox "News" is nothing more than "The Weekly World News" for TV. It's a very confusing time for them, even though they have good ratings (The Weekly World News is the 4th highest selling newspaper in the world, and all they talk about are Bigfoot and UFOs), which only mean they pander to the lowest common denominator.

The channel is a commentary channel. The only "news" they report is Paris and Anna Nicole Smith. Notice how they always push "Fair and Balanced"? I wonder why "Truthful" is such a taboo word at Fox?

As patriotic as Americans like to think they are, do they think it's good for the country to get their opinions handed to them by a non-American TV station owner? Must be part of that New World Globalization they don't talk about unless youre in Rupert's Board meetings.

Fox covered the War in Iraq only 6% of the time. Amazing. O'Reilly said he "can't speak for Fox News", then proceeds to do EXACTLY that.

How do you sleep at night, Bill? Is having a TV show worth selling your soul and your country out to the (not even) highest bidder? Is it worth lying through your fase teeth to get people to think you know what you talk about?

"We wont report every bomb exploding in Tikrit", I can understand that Bill, it's a downer story and people might turn to another channel. Too bad for you, people are waking up to the fact Fox is for lazy thinkers who need their opinions spoon-fed to them.

....and that's the "memo".

Answer 2

Well they can't report the war accurately for a number of reasons , the number 1 being that the Pentagon after Vietnam ordered a media blackout or something they call " media positivity " . The point is Journalists should be doing there job but they can't in this case because the Pentagon wants to stay in Iraq and cannot do this if the American people saw dead and dieing Americans every morning , afternoon and night on the news - Americans would demand they come home . In conclusion " media positivity " works well .

Edit - Embedded journalists is part of " media positivity " , turn on the news tonight and see how many reporters state new schools and hospitals are being built . They don't report who died and when and if they do its less then 2 seconds in between the best pizza in town and how Paris Hilton is doing . As for Geraldo , the man is a lunatic who stated he was going to kill Osama with his bare hands and he didn't get kicked off the military reporting team for giving locations , he left to do a show on Fox .

Answer 3

I think he was referring more to the "agendas" at CNN and MSNBC to hammer home only bad news from Iraq and not necessarily about reporting the truth. It's all pretty ridiculous anyway. I don't know why these news networks take themselves so seriously. But they do.
Now days we have hundreds and hundreds of alternative news sources, so those three stations certainly do not have the final word about anything.
If you want Fox News, Media Matters, MSNBC, Hustler Magazine, or Newsweek to help form your opinions on the world, so be it.

Edit: People can form their opinions from any source they choose. If they form their own - fine. If they don't - well, that's fine too. Just like Bert T. who's of the opinion that I regurgitate information from Rush and Fox "News". How that conclusion was drawn, I'm not sure, but hey, that's his opinion. I'm not here to tell ANYONE how they should think or who they MUST believe.

Answer 4

Seriously, when was the last time you watched CNN or MSNBC and saw a segment on the reconstruction and humanitarian efforts being accomplished in Iraq? The building of hospitals, schools and new roads? Any news - what so ever - on the rebuilding of their infrastructure?

Thought so. Perhaps they do have an agenda after all.

As a side note: Remember the nightly, horrific scenes of combat brought into your living room on the nightly newscasts during the Viet Nam war? Well, it worked then - so let's do it again.
As a side note, the North Viet Namese lost every major military engagement, including the infamous TET offensive, and even if you were a nightly news watcher that paid attention - you would not have known this. Strange, eh?

Answer 5

He's done worse:

On two separate occasions on his show with Wesley Clark as his guest, he cited the attrocities committed by American troops against SS troops in Malmedy, Belgium. The problem is, that's not what happened. It was the SS troops who slaughtered 84 unarmed American troops and NOT the other way around as he claimed, to quote "that's on the record, documented."

So not only was he wrong TWICE, idiot that he is, but if you look at the written transcript on Fox now, THEY HAVE CHANGED IT to read Normandy instead of Malmedy. However, watching the video, it's clear that O'Reilly says Malmedy and he does so SEVERAL TIMES.

This is dangerous if it's ignored by our society and in my mind Fox News should be fined by the FCC. Of course that won't happen because the FCC is a telecommunications industry puppet.

Bill O'Reilly is a consummate liar and only idiots believe anything he has to say.

Answer 6

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Answer 7

I happen to agree with Bill O'Reilly on this one. I have spent most of my life working in or with the media. If you do believe that they do not have a specific point of view which they are trying to peddle to the American public, then I have a bridge I'd like to sell you.

Some, not all, journalists are reporting the news as it unfolds. The American public is being fed a carefully scripted version of events. All you have to do is look back in history at how other wars and conflicts to know this is a true statement.

The true judges of what is taking place in Iraq today will not be journalists or armchair pundits on Yahoo, but the historians of the future.

Answer 8

Bill Olielly is an ex porn writer who takes the high road and pretends he's against child abuse and porn, what a hypocrit!!! Anyone who believes Fux is actually news needs to be educated coz theyre obviously morons.

Answer 9

well my beautiful friend without offending the American people I think the real terrorist in this world it is your government with Saddam Hussein the world was safe now every country we are in danger and I fill sorry when innocent people get killed but if they attack the white house I'm not sorry. They went to destroy the country the people just to take the oil it is worth I do not think so and who nose how may people have to DI because this never finish in in one thousand years to came.

Answer 10

No - they've always been like that. Do you remember the way they said all people who dared to criticize the president right after the Iraq invasion were seditious traitors, and called for their prosecution under the alien and sedition act? That included the "NYcrimes" and other media.