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Offline delalluvia

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Fox News and spinning
« on: October 07, 2006, 02:03:55 pm »
Recently, during the Foley scandal, Fox News got caught with its pants down exposing even more blatantly its partisanship, putting up screaming headlines on its newscasts, calling Foley an "ex-Democrat" or emphasizing his ties to the Democratic party instead of calling him what he is today, a REPUBLICAN congressman.

This came out shortly after  While funny, it is also a
very educational, informative look at how something
can be implied and spun by simple phrasing and
sentence construction:


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Re: Fox News and spinning
« Reply #1 on: October 07, 2006, 09:52:15 pm »
yes I saw they were identifying him as (D-Fla)

 >:( >:(

fair and balanced?? I don't think so.

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Re: Fox News and spinning
« Reply #2 on: October 07, 2006, 10:09:12 pm »
yes I saw they were identifying him as (D-Fla)

 >:( >:(

fair and balanced?? I don't think so.


It was so ridiculously blatant that I was going WTF??!?!  Fox has a very low opinion of the intelligence of its audience.