Shouldn't CNN, Fox know the facts?

Shouldn't CNN, Fox know the facts?

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e21Mark

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16,205 posts

172 months

Friday 3rd July 2015
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I've watched a few reports by Fox News, CNN etc lately and have been blown away by the stupidity and lack of understanding, around the issues that they have been attempting to report. When the Costa Concordia ran aground, Fox reported the similarities between that and the film Titanic, seemingly oblivious to the fact that the sinking of the Titanic was an actual event in history.

More recently though, I've seen CNN have Reza Aslan as a guest, believing that he shared some of the same views on Islam as 'comedian' Bill Maher. Personally, I had never heard Reza Aslan before this report (although I have watched several interviews since) but it seems incredible that these supposed News channels can be so lacking in either fact, or understanding, of the situations they are reporting.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PzusSqcotDw

Axionknight

8,505 posts

134 months

Friday 3rd July 2015
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Facts!? Never mind those, we need a good story to blow out of all proportion!!

Facts, rofl

Spanna

3,732 posts

175 months

Friday 3rd July 2015
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Ahhhhh, the American way of 'reporting' the news is infact to turn it into an entertainment show with loonies on it.

mph1977

12,467 posts

167 months

Friday 3rd July 2015
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Faux News and facts ... ( wide selction of comedy and incredulous smilies)

Fishtigua

9,786 posts

194 months

Friday 3rd July 2015
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Axionknight said:
Facts!? Never mind those, we need a good story to blow out of all proportion!!

Facts, rofl
Hey, it's award winning stuff.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/news/cnn-missing-pla...

e21Mark

Original Poster:

16,205 posts

172 months

Friday 3rd July 2015
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I'm blown away by just how stupid these 'reporters' or 'journalists' actually are. Surely we deserve better? Or should demand better maybe? Or is it the majority of sheople just don't care?

xjsdriver

1,071 posts

120 months

Friday 3rd July 2015
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Fox news, Fox facts = Faux news, faux facts!!!!

ChemicalChaos

10,360 posts

159 months

Friday 3rd July 2015
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not just Fox either...



colonel c

7,888 posts

238 months

Friday 3rd July 2015
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Does Fox News turn its female reporters into the journalistic equivalent of Stepford wives?


http://theimmoralminority.blogspot.co.uk/2010/04/d...

Challo

10,043 posts

154 months

Friday 3rd July 2015
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Spanna said:
Ahhhhh, the American way of 'reporting' the news is infact to turn it into an entertainment show with loonies on it.
Agree. Spend anytime watching TV in American and you would be hard pressed to tell the different between Fox/CNN News and a made up entertainment programe. They all look the same, and pretty much cover the same content.

Axionknight

8,505 posts

134 months

Friday 3rd July 2015
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ChemicalChaos said:


not just Fox either...


rofl excellent!

Tycho

11,554 posts

272 months

Friday 3rd July 2015
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Have another:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/06/27/cnn-isis-...

CNN mistakes a gay pride flag for ISIS flag.

rofl

Asterix

24,438 posts

227 months

Friday 3rd July 2015
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ChemicalChaos said:


not just Fox either...


Hahahahahahaha rofl

Morons.

e21Mark

Original Poster:

16,205 posts

172 months

Friday 3rd July 2015
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It's as if The Day Today was real all along!

Crush

15,077 posts

168 months

Friday 3rd July 2015
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xjsdriver

1,071 posts

120 months

Friday 3rd July 2015
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Axionknight said:
ChemicalChaos said:


not just Fox either...


rofl excellent!
I fail to comprehend how they could get a graphic so plainly, just as wrong as that..........

Tycho

11,554 posts

272 months

Saturday 4th July 2015
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Crush said:
hehe

BlackLabel

13,251 posts

122 months

Saturday 4th July 2015
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This one is brilliant - the host cannot get it into her head why the author, a muslim, wrote a book about the historical figure Jesus.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jt1cOnNrY5s

Edited by BlackLabel on Saturday 4th July 09:20

rohrl

8,712 posts

144 months

Saturday 4th July 2015
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BlackLabel said:
This one is brilliant - the host cannot get it into her head why the author, a muslim, wrote a book about the historical figure Jesus.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jt1cOnNrY5s
She really is as thick as a walrus omelette.

TheExcession

11,669 posts

249 months

Saturday 4th July 2015
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e21Mark said:
Fox News/CNN
Yeah, I agree, but Megyn Kelly (Fox) kicks most anchors into the weeds both in the pleasing to the eye and the intellect stakes.

Hard to believe she's in her mid 40s. A very sharp woman who doesn't take any crap.

Contrast her to that [clarkson-voice]stupidly dumb bint[/clarkson-voice] Naga Munchetty that greets us every morning and I'll take Fox News over the BBC every day.

(We need another Kay Burley type of petition for Naga Munchetty - not that the first one did any good.)