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When I first saw this video I was still a little reluctant to jump on the Fox News bashing bandwagon. It’s pretty much an open admission from Murdoch that Fox News manipulates news to push Murdoch’s agenda.

And I wasn’t even going to jump on the bandwagon after I found out about the persistant switching of ‘Obama’ with ‘Osama’.

A little after I found out about that, there was the incident where one of the guest wished for Obama’s assassination. In this clip not only does the person switch ‘Obama’ for ‘Osama’, but she also wishes for Obama to be assassinated.

Even still, I wasn’t going to start jumping on the Fox News bashing bandwagon.

But today I saw this! Mediamatters.org discusses a Fox News segment in which they discuss a New York Times reporter that has been critical of Fox News. In that piece they aired digitally altered photos.Here are the photos (from mediamatters.org).

You can see the video of the Fox News segment here at mediamatters.org. You can also consider me on the bandwagon.

One Response to “Fox News”

  1. Andrei Buckareff

    Andy,

    I admire your restraint. The track record of Fox alone of slanted news coverage has been enough to make me into a Fox news basher. These photos are simply de rigueur for an organization like Fox news. If I learned that they deliberately doctored photos to make their critics look more attractive than they actually are, I would be incredulous. But this stuff is lightweight. Rather, I believe the systematic prevarications and coddling of right-wing politicians has been enough to warrant judging that Fox news is little more than tabloid television that panders to the worst elements of the right in this country. If I were a conservative, I would distance myself as far from Fox news as I could. In the age of Fox news style conservative media, I can’t help but miss W.F. Buckley (a figure most of the pundits on Fox can only dream of being like).

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