The Science Of Fox News

I'll never say Fox News in infallible, but graphics errors and opinion pieces? Throwing in some affiliate action too...

Mtv still considers itself a music station...

But Thom reminded me that by far, the worst of all was a little thing Reagan did by not letting 'Equal Time' provisions of licensing the media. This made all the horrible things that Reagan initiated would soon become invisible. The media would soon become, as Thom says it, 'infotainment'. It is one thing to set in motion the destruction of the country, it is another to make it invisible, so people do not know it is happening and can vote for an alternative. People no longer know that we used to have high tax rates and we were a dominant industrial world power. Economists used to track 'industrial production' in the US and have it a measure of our success. Now we measure 'declining industries' and our country has become a wasteland of empty wharehouses and manufacturing plants. The changes Reagan set into motion were permanent because of the lack of informed voters. So much so that when finally a Democrat was election into office, he could hardly change it all, and instead Clinton followed through with NAFTA.

That's what Murdoch does, dumbs everything down and then spoon feeds bullshit

When you turn news into a commodity, deliberately spread lies and ignore things which actually affect people, instead concentrating on celebrities' camel toes, then yes it is wrong.

Look at the American broadcast (and print) media in the run up to the illegal war in Iraq. The American people were lied to, they supported it, the British people were told the truth, they opposed it.

It's as simple as that, and hundreds of thousands of dead Iraqi civilians are testament to how wrong it is.

everybody else got it wrong too

In the Pew Research Center's 2013 "State of the News Media" report, MSNBC was found to be the most opinionated news network, with 85% of the content being commentary or opinions, and only 15% of the content being factual reporting.

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Look at the American broadcast (and print) media in the run up to the illegal war in Iraq. The American people were lied to, they supported it, the British people were told the truth, they opposed it.

American journalism is in the crapper, we are in agreement on that.

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It's as simple as that, and hundreds of thousands of dead Iraqi civilians are testament to how wrong it is.

everybody else got it wrong too

Paul Heinbecker, Canada’s ambassador to the U.N. until December, 2003, was Chrétien's eyes and ears inside the international body tasked with deciding whether it would authorize one of its most powerful members to attack another country.

In the months leading up to the invasion, the U.S. doggedly sought authority from the Security Council to enter Iraq and remove Saddam Hussein from power on grounds the dictator had amassed weapons of mass destruction and was “a danger to the world.”

Heinbecker reviewed the intelligence and called Chrétien frequently to offer advice. He opposed the war and proposed more time for U.N. weapons inspectors, led by Hans Blix, to look for Iraqi weapons of mass destruction.

“I was very skeptical of the intelligence that people were offering on the Iraq situation,” Heinbecker told The Huffington Post.

That skepticism, reflected in his reports back to Ottawa, conflicted with other assessments the prime minister received.

“He was being told by counterparts, notably the British, that this was a ‘slam dunk,’ that they would be getting their authorization to go to war, and it would be good for Canada to get on board,” Heinbecker said. “I told him there was no prospect of U.N. Security Council approval of a resolution mandating attacking Iraq. It just wasn’t going to happen –- nobody in New York was convinced of the necessity of the action.”

Heinbecker did not believe the pronouncements by the U.S. and Britain that Iraq was buying uranium from Africa, and he said it should have been clear to anyone paying attention that the allegations were highly doubtful.

He blames American hubris and emotion for the rush to war.

“Americans took the information and put exclamation marks where they should have been putting question marks,” he said. “They just wanted to kick somebody’s ass after 9/11, and Iraq was a case.”

Chrétien himself had misgivings about the evidence of weapons of mass destruction, saying the evidence was "shaky."
"All I knew for certain was that I wouldn't have been able to convince a judge of the municipal court in Shawinigan with the evidence I was given," he wrote in his book.

They like to look down their nose at the commoners watching their Fox News and laugh amongst themselves about their superiority.