Wednesday, December 14, 2005

Crimes against Journalism

In interest of time I will make this short, due to my insanely busy schedule, but I just couldn't not show people this phenomenon. This is a very simple postulate that I have concocted after hours of painstaking research using nothing but my intuition and....ok it was about 5 minutes of lookin' around with a firefox browser.
I call it the "Fox News Theory of Blind Conservatism and Idiocy in Reporting Information that Should Be Based on Facts" or FNTBCIRISBBF. Allbeit not a catchy acronym (I'm working on it), it is a continuous theme that pervades Fox News' entire existence. I will present one aspect of it here for your intellectual betterment.

Observe!

George Bush today announced that he was responsible for going to war in Iraq based on faulty information (I know, I couldn't believe it either). I give you a sample of Theoretically Unbiased (BBC), Intermediate (CNN), Liberal (NPR) and Criddity-Crazy/Conservative (FOX NEWS) examples of the front page stories reporting on this major historic event.


Theoretically Unbiased - BBC
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Intermediate - CNN
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Liberal - NPR
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...wow... -FOX NEWS
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Note that the wonderful people at FOX don't have a single story on the front page that has any reference to the admittance of guilt by the president. You might want to note the little story there about the democratic "assault" on the president's plans. There is not a single story on this page that has any bad spin on the war whatsoever. It's actually pretty optimistic. "Story of Freedom"? More like "Story of Imperialism"! But thats a whole different post.

Note the presentation of the facts in an unbiased way by the other sources, even the Liberal (NPR) source.

Just thought I would point this out. For other crimes against journalism, see the "Really Fake News" link to your right.

Now back to work.

-Joe

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