Fox news "creative editing"

MobBoss said:
Uhm. There is a story out right now about MSNBC editing something to make Romney look bad. Let me see if I can find it.

Care to edit your original comment? :lol:
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Thats it ?
Foxnews todays shows how its done.

Jon Stewart Praises The 'Genius' Of Fox News' G20 Coverage (VIDEO)

And sure, MSNBC and CNN both covered the body language topic, but no one did it better than Fox News, according to Stewart.

"They see this, they immediately know what it is, and that it's enormously important," he joked. "The liberal media's all 'Oh, they're leaning away from each other. What does it mean? I don't know what it means anymore!' Fox jumps in, 'HE'S A WEAK CHILD WHO IS SLOUCHING AMERICA TOWARD THE NUCLEAR HOLOCAUST!'"

What really brought Fox's coverage to the next level for Stewart, though, was their employment of "random juxtaposition." They didn't just look at Obama's "cheek twitches" and leave it at that, they somehow tied in Ronald Reagan and the Berlin wall.

That, my friends, is how it's done. That's how you take a few seconds of Obama video and turn it into a rich soup of decontextualized imagery designed to bypass the frontal cortex and go straight to the amygdalas of old people, triggering cascades of dopamine and giving them all a giant Reagan boner. It's why they're number one.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/06/21/jon-stewart-praises-genius-fox-news-video_n_1615281.html
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FriendlyFire said:
Thats it ?
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Why do you assume 'thats it'? :confused: That was just a current headline I happened to notice that pertained to the topic at hand......certainly not meant as a compliation of any kind.

I'm just not rabid (or anal enough) to follow the various media outlets looking for such stuff. In doing some quick searches you can find similar mistakes of the kind Fox makes in other outlets as well, but not as many people care about it as much as they do when it occurs on Fox.
 
Y'all keep using the word "mistake"... you really believe this was a mistake?
 
LucyDuke said:
Y'all keep using the word "mistake"... you really believe this was a mistake?
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Since I dont really subscribe to conspiracy theory that much, and actually do believe the simplest answer is most often the actual answer.....yes, for the most part I think they are mistakes.

Consider: they are a 24 hour constant source of programming with large number of people engaged on a lot of shows all throwing things together at what we would consider an overwhelming pace. Error is practically assured to occur as long as humans are involved in any of it.

The real key is how to separate fact from fiction. Bottom line, Loose change types are going to believe what they want to believe regardless of the answer, no matter how logically it is or how well presented.
 
I found a demotivator that demonstrates part of the issues surrounding Fox News.

conspiracy-theories-fox-news-demotivational-poster-1242352043.jpg
 
MobBoss said:
Bottom line, Loose change types are going to believe what they want to believe regardless of the answer, no matter how logically it is or how well presented.
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Loose change types are in the same group as the types who think Fox News is a legitimate news organization.

I'm positive that I'm a bigger proponent of Hanlon's razor than you, and I'm not seeing it here.
 
MobBoss said:
Since I dont really subscribe to conspiracy theory that much, and actually do believe the simplest answer is most often the actual answer.....yes, for the most part I think they are mistakes.

Consider: they are a 24 hour constant source of programming with large number of people engaged on a lot of shows all throwing things together at what we would consider an overwhelming pace. Error is practically assured to occur as long as humans are involved in any of it.

The real key is how to separate fact from fiction. Bottom line, Loose change types are going to believe what they want to believe regardless of the answer, no matter how logically it is or how well presented.
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In this case, I'm talking specifically about the clip Hannity played. Do you think that the presentation of that excerpt of video was a mistake?
 
Given the long line of mistakes on Hannity's show, we can't presume competence. I think his immigrant surname makes Fox afraid to fire him.
 
"Mistakes" are what legitimate news organizations correct publicly when they occur. Anything else is obviously not a "mistake".

And speaking of competence, I'm still waiting for proof that anybody has to fill out a complicated 33-page form to merely change billing addresses. Perhaps incompetent orthodontists can hire a competent secretaries if the form actually exists and it is beyond their capability to properly fill it out. Either way, I hardly think giving them a touch screen in some remote government location is going to make it any better.
 
MobBoss said:
Uhm. There is a story out right now about MSNBC editing something to make Romney look bad. Let me see if I can find it.

Ah, here is part of it.
http://www.chicagonow.com/publius-f...drea-mitchell-smear-romney-with-edited-video/

http://www.mediaite.com/tv/andrea-m...te-story-alive-by-pretending-it-doesnt-exist/

Care to edit your original comment? :lol:
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... is that it? Jeez it's like that purported video that proved beyond a shadow of a doubt Obama was a radical leftist Communist who hated America and wanted to kill all the Christian babies and it was just him praising some professor at a university for overcoming racism or something.

I'm sorry, those don't seem to be at all in the same league. I know MSNBC purportedly is the ying to Fox News' yang and yes I know MSNBC appears to have a liberal bias, editing someone's words is one thing and both services do such, but producing something that looks very similar to a campaign advertisement is a different level.


Link to video.

So, no, I would not like to edit my original comment! But thank's for asking. :)
 
it's amazing how political ads differ from country to country.

Link to video.
100% true
 
Mr. Dictator said:
Why does Fox News thread become about MSNBC?

Can we keep that in the MSNBC threads?
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Because both Fox and MSNBC are the same thing. They both manipulate video to get their point across.

Anybody who watches either is a fool.
 
Only MSNBC has apparently done it once. But somehow they are now the same...
 
Actually it's twice after this latest Romney manipulation.
 
Aren't you confusing MSNBC with NBC? Is the other one the Today Show incident?

Either way, do you think that is in any way comparable to incessantly doing it without even admitting you did so?
 
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