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How does this doofus "network" survive?

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JTT
 
Reply Sun 8 Jun, 2008 01:11 pm
The only answer is that they have an audience of idiots.

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"[G]ullible" Fox & Friends escape lawsuit for repeating yet another false news story

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In a June 4 article headlined "Judge tosses school official's lawsuit against Fox News," the Associated Press reported on the dismissal of a school superintendent's lawsuit against the Fox News Channel and Fox & Friends co-hosts Steve Doocy and Brian Kilmeade for repeating as fact an online parody news report of a school prank that included fabricated quotes attributed to the superintendent. The judge called Doocy and Kilmeade "gullible," as the AP noted, and while he dismissed the lawsuit, the Fox & Friends segment in question marked at least the third time since 2004 that Fox News has issued a retraction and apology for airing a fake news report that repeated false information.

In fact, the segment aired after Fox News' Vice President for News John Moody reportedly warned staff in January 2007 that "seeing an item on a website does not mean it is right. Nor does it mean it is ready for air on FNC." In dismissing the suit, U.S. District Court Judge D. Brock Hornby wrote:

The facts in this case -- a morning cable news show derisively reporting events and statements obtained unwittingly from an online parody -- should provide grist for journalism classes teaching research and professionalism standards in the Internet age. But First Amendment principles developed long before the Internet still provide protection to the gullible news program hosts against this public official's claims for defamation and false light invasion of privacy. Poetic justice would subject the defendants to the same ridicule that they accorded the plaintiff. But in real life, the aggrieved school superintendent must be satisfied with their later retraction and a professional reputation sullied less than theirs.

On the April 24, 2007, edition of Fox & Friends, Doocy and Kilmeade reported on Plagman's story as though it were fact and repeated several of the made-up quotes attributed to Levesque. In discussing the parody report, Doocy repeatedly asserted: "We are not making this up." Indeed, when Kilmeade asserted: "You know, I hope we're not being duped," Doocy replied, "We're not being duped. I've looked it up on a couple of different websites up there." Doocy issued an on-air retraction and apology during the May 16, 2007, edition of Fox & Friends First.

http://mediamatters.org/items/200806060010

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mysteryman
 
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Reply Sun 8 Jun, 2008 01:32 pm
So they fell for a fake story.
So what?

They arent the first network to do that, nor will they be the last.
Would you like some examples of other "fake" stories that other networks have fallen victim to?
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nimh
 
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Reply Sun 8 Jun, 2008 01:33 pm
Re: How does this doofus "network" survive?
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Indeed, when Kilmeade asserted: "You know, I hope we're not being duped," Doocy replied, "We're not being duped. I've looked it up on a couple of different websites up there."

LOL
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JTT
 
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Reply Sun 8 Jun, 2008 01:42 pm
mysteryman wrote:
So they fell for a fake story.
So what?

They arent the first network to do that, nor will they be the last.
Would you like some examples of other "fake" stories that other networks have fallen victim to?


One of their "viewers" pops his head up.

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... the Fox & Friends segment in question marked at least the third time since 2004 that Fox News has issued a retraction and apology for airing a fake news report that repeated false information.

In fact, the segment aired after Fox News' Vice President for News John Moody reportedly warned staff in January 2007 that "seeing an item on a website does not mean it is right. Nor does it mean it is ready for air on FNC."

[same story, the one MM failed to read before his knee, and brain, jerked.]

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Mame
 
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Reply Sun 8 Jun, 2008 01:46 pm
Re: How does this doofus "network" survive?
nimh wrote:
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Indeed, when Kilmeade asserted: "You know, I hope we're not being duped," Doocy replied, "We're not being duped. I've looked it up on a couple of different websites up there."

LOL


Yeah, there's research for ya. Sort of like using an Encyclopedia as a citation in a University paper! lol
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mysteryman
 
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Reply Mon 9 Jun, 2008 05:08 am
JTT wrote:
mysteryman wrote:
So they fell for a fake story.
So what?

They arent the first network to do that, nor will they be the last.
Would you like some examples of other "fake" stories that other networks have fallen victim to?


One of their "viewers" pops his head up.

Quote:


... the Fox & Friends segment in question marked at least the third time since 2004 that Fox News has issued a retraction and apology for airing a fake news report that repeated false information.

In fact, the segment aired after Fox News' Vice President for News John Moody reportedly warned staff in January 2007 that "seeing an item on a website does not mean it is right. Nor does it mean it is ready for air on FNC."

[same story, the one MM failed to read before his knee, and brain, jerked.]



No, I dont watch Fox News in the morning, I watch the local ABC channel.
But for you or anyone else to target F&F for being fooled, when it has happened to EVERY news network, is just plain silly.
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snood
 
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Reply Mon 9 Jun, 2008 05:47 am
Not that you're kneejerking to defend Fox News, or anything...
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mysteryman
 
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Reply Mon 9 Jun, 2008 06:40 pm
snood wrote:
Not that you're kneejerking to defend Fox News, or anything...


Nope, not at all.
I just think its funny that all of you are attacking Fox for getting fooled, yet you ignore it when it happens to other networks, or you pass it off as a true story that got botched.
As a reminder, when Dan Rather tried to use forged documents to get Bush, almost all of you said that it was a true story, even if the documents were forged.

You seem to accept that, but you also seem to be holding Fox to a different standard.

Hold ALL of the networks to the same standard, or dont complain about what they do.
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JTT
 
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Reply Mon 9 Jun, 2008 07:05 pm
The time is coming to stand up to these faux news "reporters" / mccarthyites. Their brand of bullshit simply can't stand up to scrutiny.

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FOX Ambushes Bill Moyers; Journalists Ambush FOX

At the National Conference for Media Reform 2008, a producer for FOX's The O'Reilly Factor, Porter Barry, ambushes PBS's Bill Moyers and peppers him with questions regarding his political affiliations and his "refusal" to appear on O'Reilly's show. Moyers disputes FOX's "facts" for the record and asks to interview someone at The O'Reilly Factor about Rupert Murdoch and the show's coverage during the run-up to the invasion of Iraq. The journalist crowd then reacts, chasing down Barry and intentionally giving him a dose of FOX-style bullying reportage.

Video at,

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/the-uptake/fox-ambushes-bill-moyers_b_106047.html

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edgarblythe
 
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Reply Mon 9 Jun, 2008 09:06 pm
Fox is a bullshit news network. More propaganda than real news. But, it is only a degree of dishonesty separating them from the other networks. None is trustworthy these days.
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paull
 
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Reply Mon 9 Jun, 2008 09:51 pm
I am going to ask Dan Rather about this and get back to you.
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JTT
 
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Reply Tue 10 Jun, 2008 07:13 pm
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MSNBC's "Countdown with Keith Olbermann" beat Fox News' "The O'Reilly Factor" in the key Adults 25-54 demographic for the first time ever last week.

"Countdown" averaged 477,000 viewers (A25-54) vs. O'Reilly's 472,000 (excluding Tuesday's primary coverage). This marks the first time that MSNBC has beaten Fox News in O'Reilly's 8pm time slot since June 2001.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/06/10/countdown-beats-oreilly-f_n_106298.html



There's still 472,000 idiots who watch Bill O'Falafel.

Stupid Bill O'Reilly Quotes

http://politicalhumor.about.com/od/billoreilly/a/oreillyquotes.htm
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cjhsa
 
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Reply Tue 10 Jun, 2008 07:56 pm
It's better than CNN, who still waxes poetic about oval office blowjobs...
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JTT
 
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Reply Tue 10 Jun, 2008 10:35 pm
cjhsa wrote:
It's better than CNN, who still waxes poetic about oval office blowjobs...


The list:

1. cjhsa

Only 471,999 more idiots to go.
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cjhsa
 
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Reply Wed 11 Jun, 2008 05:39 am
Someone's upset because FOX News is #1.... is your job in jeopardy JTT??? Laughing

Loser.
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