Fox News busted for altering photos

[Steerpike]

Media Matters - Fox News airs altered photos of NY Times reporters

Fox and Friends isn't even a news show. Looks clear to me that the pictures are a joke. No different than if Steven Colbert or Jon Stewart did this.

Of course, Media Matters has a habit of misrepresenting things.

We've got plenty of people on the left and right in this country who eat this stuff up, though.

 

[Gunny]

After all the leftwingnut blather ... the captions states "... appears to have been altered."

In other words, it's a lame accusation just to get the Fox-hating nutcases frothing at the mouth.

Why is this in the Politics forum, anyway?

 

[btopping]

Ahhh, Fox - they've done it again. News Network - Bring on the BBC for good honest journalism!

 

[Charles_Main]

Ahhh, Fox - they've done it again. News Network - Bring on the BBC for good honest journalism!

LOL the BBC is the poster child for LEFT WING BIAS!

 

[jreeves]

try listening to amy goodman for real example of left bias.

most of our media is hardly as far left as fox is right.

I guess Chris Matthews saying he gets a tingling feeling up his leg everytime he hears Obama speaks is totally unpartisan right?

 

[jreeves]

try listening to amy goodman for real example of left bias.

most of our media is hardly as far left as fox is right.

I guess Keith Olberwishwehadanobama is not partisan either huh?

 

[Care4all]

Please, the mainstream media is in love with obama because of their LEFT wing beliefs.

then why were they against Hillary?

 

[jreeves]

then why were they against Hillary?

The media knew Hillary had too much baggage.

 

[RetiredGySgt]

Do people really watch FAUX News to get news, or to just laugh and laugh at Bill O'Reilly and his posse of right wing nut jobs?

O'Reilly is NOT a newsman, I suggest you learn what is and is not news.

 

[RetiredGySgt]

seriously allie, i do put the dailly show and faux and fiends on the same level...and it's nice you do too.

course one is on a 'news network' the other is on a network called 'comedy central'

SO any show on CNN, MSNBC or the like is a NEWS show? You may want to rethink that position.

 

[Gunny]

then why were they against Hillary?

They weren't. Not until Obama popped up out of nowhere. He makes Hillary's views look conservative. NFL running backs only WISH they could turn on someone as quick as the MSM and DNC turned on her.

No one on the right could take her down. Just someone further to the left than she is. Ought to be a wakeup call for who REALLY controls your party.

 

[busara]

They weren't. Not until Obama popped up out of nowhere. He makes Hillary's views look conservative. NFL running backs only WISH they could turn on someone as quick as the MSM and DNC turned on her.

No one on the right could take her down. Just someone further to the left than she is. Ought to be a wakeup call for who REALLY controls your party.

i think the same thing controls both parties: greed and corruption

 

[CharlestonChad]

After all the leftwingnut blather ... the captions states "... appears to have been altered."

In other words, it's a lame accusation just to get the Fox-hating nutcases frothing at the mouth.

Why is this in the Politics forum, anyway?

Gunny, watch the video and tell us it's NOT altered, and you'll have a whole thread of jokes about your old age, poor vision, and overall dementia.

It's in the politics forum because it involves one of the major sources of political information in America blatantly altering photos. The list of faux news bias is growing by the week and, of course, the ones that watch the network come out to defend it because if they don't then they might actually have to stop being a homer for a hack job news station.

 

[Charles_Main]

i think the same thing controls both parties: greed and corruption

Well said.

 

[politicsezine]

This is just a bunch of cockfighting between old rivals. Lame.

 

[Steerpike]

Gunny, watch the video and tell us it's NOT altered, and you'll have a whole thread of jokes about your old age, poor vision, and overall dementia.

It's in the politics forum because it involves one of the major sources of political information in America blatantly altering photos. The list of faux news bias is growing by the week and, of course, the ones that watch the network come out to defend it because if they don't then they might actually have to stop being a homer for a hack job news station.

Anyone who took this serious rather than as "comedy" (whether good comedy or bad we won't get into) is foolish.

 

[random3434]

Anyone who took this serious rather than as "comedy" (whether good comedy or bad we won't get into) is foolish.

Just like people who watch the "Steven Colbert Report" and really think he's a right winger don't get it..............

 

[editec]

Fox and Friends isn't even a news show. Looks clear to me that the pictures are a joke. No different than if Steven Colbert or Jon Stewart did this.

No different?

If you say so.

Humor, like beauty, really is in the eye of the beholder.

 

[Steerpike]

No different?

If you say so.

Humor, like beauty, really is in the eye of the beholder.

Well, Colbert and Stewart are a lot funnier, but it's the same thing in principle.

 

[CharlestonChad]

Fox has never been busted for shit like this. If you think they have, provide a link or reference.

Fox News, whose slogan is “Fair and Balanced,” seems to have gone above and beyond in its anti-Obama rhetoric, which also includes smears and misinformation about Obama’s outspoken wife, Michelle.
Some examples:

• A June 11 Fox News broadcast graphic identified Michelle Obama as “Obama’s baby mama” rather than as Obama’s wife.

• On the night that Obama secured the Democratic Party nomination, he and Michelle bumped knuckles, a gesture that the Fox News anchor referred to as a “terrorist jab.” To his credit, the anchor has since apologized for the remark.

• On a Fox News broadcast during the Puerto Rico primary campaign, Republican strategist Roger Stone alleged that Michelle Obama had publicly referred to Whites as “whitey” and that a tape existed that would back up the charge of her alleged racism. The smear that Stone passed along originated with right-wing blogger Larry Johnson and made the rounds of right-wing blogs, repeated by talk radio host Rush Limbaugh.

Stone was soon forced to admit that he had not talked to anyone that had viewed the tape. Indeed, no such tape appears to exist.

• While Obama’s father may be Muslim, the repeated veiled references on Fox News to Obama himself being an unpatriotic Muslim who refuses to say the pledge of allegiance or wear an American flag lapel pin while intending to destroy the United States are too numerous to mention in this space.

• The breathless non-stop “coverage” of the “controversy” surrounding remarks by Obama’s pastor, Reverend Jeremiah Wright, has been covered extensively elsewhere and is also too voluminous to chronicle in this space. This occurred simultaneously with Fox News’ failure to cover outrageous comments made by McCain supporters John Hagee and Rod Parsley.

• Several Fox News personnel have been only too happy to smear Obama by assertion, using such tactics as equating Obama’s first name with Osama bin Laden’s name and Obama’s middle name (Hussein) with Saddam.

One notable example was a joke made by Fox News Chairman and CEO Roger Ailes, who reportedly said in a speech, “It’s true that Barack Obama is on the move. I don’t know if it’s true President Bush called [Pakistan President Pervez] Musharraf and said, ‘Why can’t we catch this guy?’”

• Last year, the Fox News program Fox and Friends aired a report that Obama had attended a radical Islamic school in Indonesia when he was a child. When the allegation was shown to be false, Fox and Friends’ co-hosts distanced themselves from the story, which had begun as an unsubstantiated story in Insight Magazine, a publication by the right-wing Washington Times newspaper.

• On June 6, Fox News anchor Brit Hume said about Obama: “His campaign has emphasized his faith in part to dispel what the campaign calls an online smear campaign which contends among other things that Obama was raised a Muslim. There is even a statement on his official campaign website reading, quote, ‘Obama has never been a Muslim, and is a committed Christian.’ But Obama’s half brother is not so sure. Malik Obama tells The Jerusalem Post that, ‘if elected his brother will be a good president for the Jewish people, despite his Muslim background.’”

The quote from Obama’s brother was dutifully repeated on fan sites for Fox News’ Sean Hannity as well as by conservative bloggers. ABC News obtained a tape of the interview in question, and although the questions aren’t clearly heard, what Obama’s brother said was perfectly audible.

What Malik Obama apparently did say, in part, was: “...I can’t go in terms of Israel and Kenya and America, and so forth, you know, but based on what else I’ve heard him say and what I know of him as an individual, I don’t think Israel should worry too much, you know, about the connection. Because, I am a Muslim myself, and I don’t think that my being a Muslim has got anything to do with my brother being the President of the United States.”

Brit Hume has, as far as we can determine, yet to issue a correction or retraction.

• Obama’s recent announcement that he would forego public financing for the general election was portrayed, through selective editing of what Obama actually said, as a hypocritical flip-flop from his earlier statements. The distortion occurred on Fox News’ June 19 Special Report broadcast, which also omitted the context in which Obama had said, “If I am the Democratic nominee, I will aggressively pursue an agreement with the Republican nominee to preserve a publicly financed general election.”

In addition, across the board, Fox News personalities have uniformly declined to inform viewers of Republican challenger John McCain’s problems with the public financing system, which was intended to reduce the role of special interests and the wealthy on campaigns.

When McCain’s campaign was floundering in the primary election season, the Republican candidate is accused of having secured public taxpayer funds to keep the campaign on life support. To secure the public funding, McCain had allegedly signed a binding agreement with the Federal Elections Commission that obligated him to accept spending limits and agree to other conditions for accepting the funds.

McCain has since withdrawn from the public finance system, a move that apparently has legal repercussions. There are other allegations of improprieties on McCain’s part that, if demonstrated to be true, would leave his campaign in legal trouble. None of this gets reported on Fox News, however.

Again, Fox News is not the only media outlet guilty of distortions and smears against the Obamas. They do seem, however, to be the willing source of many of the smears and have displayed an unhealthy willingness to pass on as fact any unsourced or unfounded allegation that will put the Obamas in the worst light possible.

Fox News has been shown — despite its claims to “fairness” and “balance” — to be one of the last places those two journalistic values can be found. Again, we stress that media bias is pervasive; Fox News just appears to be the worst purveyor. In fact, some media figures have been accused of being too blatantly pro-Obama, perhaps most notably MSNBC’s Chris Matthews and Keith Olbermann.