Fake News - Fox News caught faking it up

[Belize]

You know who else is faking it?

Melania.

OT: It's Fox. Just smile and shake your head.

[Stormspark]

You know who else is faking it?

Melania.

OT: It's Fox. Just smile and shake your head.

Of course. She's a mail order bride/trophy wife. Her living conditions are probably better enough than where she came from, to be willing to put up with Trump in exchange for money.

[Snorkles]

Its like "Syrian Observatory of Human Rights" - a bloke in UK that has never been to Syria.

Except that BBC still uses it as source.

You mean the guy that was a Syrian Activist that got locked up numerous times - in Syria - then fled to the UK?

[Deleted]

There's no claim Bilt is working for Swedish ministry or military, just advices regarding them. I wouldn't call this any different from the usual shit 'experts say' or 'researchers find' every news station does.

[Hif]

Its like "Syrian Observatory of Human Rights" - a bloke in UK that has never been to Syria.

Except that BBC still uses it as source.

Yeah and that is fucked up. Anybody who listens to the SOHR might as well as listen to Al-Qaeda.

[Deleted]

Of course. She's a mail order bride/trophy wife. Her living conditions are probably better enough than where she came from, to be willing to put up with Trump in exchange for money.

EE women don't need to fake it bro

[Felya]

Trump went after Fox News pretty aggressively during his campaign.

The issue here isn't fox being on it's period.

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I don't understand why putting up fake news isn't being criminalized. It's one thing when a private individual lies on Facebook, and a whole other thing when a news network or website is posting bullshit and clamining it's real. How long before one of these..."credible" sources posts some fucked up shit that has people in an uproar over a lie?!

Because, such as the case here, you have other news posting a rebuttal. If you start punishing what authority determines as fake news, you are setting the government as the filter on news. As in, the one tool the public has to keep government honest, will have government control over what is honest about government.

Freedom of the press is a lot like freedom of speech, the thing that regulates free press, is access to an alternative. That's why the current political and even your wave of limitations and demonizing the free press are especially horrible. This is only the second president, where the internet has been prevalent enouph to give you almost infinite sources. If something is fake or not, there will be numerous stories on the internet, that both confirm and contradict it.

If you fall for or are in a self created bubble, the issue is 100% you. You, much like the president, have no excuse to assert venom at the free press.

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Remember folks, convincing people a single source is not to be trusted, will not have the results you want, even if you win the argument. You need to show people what you do, to have a clear picture for how news are to be interpreted. The vast majority of Fox News is just AP/Reuters articles being copied, just like every other news source. So, what happens to those articles, when you parrot fake news about Fox?

Edit: just going to edit, this thread is moving slow enouph...

Fox News, even if the lean or full sail ahead on being Republican, are needed when the president isn't republican. When he is, it's great to have a rebuttal as well, but I prefer news that attacks authority, not defend it. Having a news source, that will hound the president, even if partisan, is a good thing. The problem with fox, wasn't that they were shitting on Obama or demonizing Hillary. It's that their methods seemed spiteful, more than informative. I'm glad they held fire to Obama's feet, but disappointed that it largely focused on things like his birth certificate, his religion and his ties to being a terrorist. That's the issue with Fox, not that they exist... maybe it's hard to see in their current shape, by at least in theory, Fox News is very important due to their strong opposition to half the government.

[NED funded]

And as a name.
As for the OP, This is not fake news, its a labeling mistake.

I mean there is a big difference in one random dude giving his take on an issue and a swedish defense and national security advisor.

[Darkeon]

Hasn't Fox news been considered pretty bad already for a decent share of years already?

[Ghostpanther]

Hasn't Fox news been considered pretty bad already for a decent share of years already?

That depends on who you ask. The liberals hate it of course. But I trust it more than the rest of them. So you can easily guess which side of the political spectrum I am at. They have been wrong and bias also at times. None of them are immune to that.

[Alvito]

The bulk of what they do is fake. There is a reason it is labeled as a entertainment network not news.

[Thunderball]

All media have fakes, starting from AP and Reuters. Problem is - some of them have such a strong reputation that most people wont even think of fact checking them (and in some cases it's pretty hard to do).

[Ghostpanther]

The bulk of what they do is fake. There is a reason it is labeled as a entertainment network not news.

So you saying the reason they are the most watched ( by far ) news channel for a long time is strictly because of entertainment? Hehe. Then if the other news networks want to catch up to their popularity, they need to get to become more entertaining!

[Slybak]

You know who else is faking it?

Melania.

You'd think. But, in the mother of all plot twists, it is revealed by a 2050 FOIA request of top secret NSA recordings that Melania Trump was BEHIND IT ALL SINCE THE BEGINNING

INTERIOR - Trump Tower, 2009
(Slovakian Accent) "Donald, you must say that Barack Obama is not real American."

(Queens Accent) "Melania that's terrible! Barack Obama was born in Hawaii and is the duly elected President of the United States! And he's a decent family man! How could you ask me to do such an awful thing?"

(Slovenian Accent) "Because black man shouldn't be President! If you don't demand birth certificate then no more happy fun pee pee time for youuuuu!"

(Queens Accent) "Oh, alright. Let me call up my PR agent and schedule a press conference."

(Slovenian Accent) "Also you will run for President and call Mexicans rapists."

(Queens Accent) "Ugh. I don't know how my good friend Gary Busy will ever forgive me for this."

End Scene.

[Jeezy911]

Hasn't Fox news been considered pretty bad already for a decent share of years already?

Fox is usually considered the most trusted source in the MSM. Certainly not perfect, but they still are pretty good at hard news.

[Alvito]

So you saying the reason they are the most watched ( by far ) news channel for a long time is strictly because of entertainment? Hehe. Then if the other news networks want to catch up to their popularity, they need to get to become more entertaining!

Being the most watched has nothing to do with accurate. It is news not a popularity contest. Once new stations/networks became more interested in ratings and the 24 hour cycle then reporting accurate new things like Fox came to be. It is labeled as entertainment because in some of the countries that it is broadcast they hold their news networks to higher standards then we do in the US. So if Fox went and told it's fairlytales there they would be hammered with lawsuits. If only we held our news networks to any sort of standards here. You can spin things to fit your narrative if you want to, but you can't outright lie or just make things up. Fox does both at an alarming rate. There is a reason why out of the major networks in the US when fact checked Fox is far and away the least accurate. It is also why they have an average audience age of almost 70 years old. Old people scare easily and will believe anything they hear.

[Machismo]

So you saying the reason they are the most watched ( by far ) news channel for a long time is strictly because of entertainment? Hehe. Then if the other news networks want to catch up to their popularity, they need to get to become more entertaining!

Baywatch was one of the most watched television shows in history. Viewership does not mean content is high quality.

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I'm not sure I would constitute this as fake news, but it is something that news stations (especially Fox) has done in the past. They don't actually find experts, they find people who they can use to help sell a story.

[Alvito]

Fox is usually considered the most trusted source in the MSM. Certainly not perfect, but they still are pretty good at hard news.

You are smoking crack if you think they are the most trusted by the masses. They are in it for the ratings nothing else it is all faux news.

[zorkuus]

You are smoking crack if you think they are the most trusted by the masses.

He's living in a bubble with likeminded conservative friends.

[jediknight12]

oh noes u all just learning 99% of news is bullcrap?trump don't like much of the media and if u think fox news is pro trump u need to watch more of it cuz most the reporters their are harsh as shit on him but at least it's honest.Just look at the narrative of news from all other mainstream news chans they make it look like he is breaking laws or making them up Trump is doing nothing but enforcing already written law,if u don't like the written laws write your politicians and tell them to change the law if they don't vote them out.