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[gang ah jee]

I was wandering around the internet and found this video:

Fox April Fools Poll (google video)

It shows Fox Phoenix report on an April fool's poll for most foolish American. Bizarrely, although the studio anchors report that Britney Spears has taken first place, the graphic they show clearly indicates that George W. Bush was clearly in the lead. The anchors sound more and more uncomfortable the longer the graphic remains on screen. It's almost surreal.

So anyway, I didn't know that much about Fox News until relatively recently, but from what I can tell it's quite an amazing feat of Orwellian information management.

For example, according to a study by the Program on International Policy Attitudes,

* 67% of Fox viewers believed that the "U.S. has found clear evidence in Iraq that Saddam Hussein was working closely with the al Qaeda terrorist organization" (Compared with 56% for CBS, 49% for NBC, 48% for CNN, 45% for ABC, 16% for NPR/PBS). However, the belief that "Iraq was directly involved in September 11" was held by 33% of CBS viewers and only 24% of Fox viewers, 23% for ABC, 22% for NBC, 21% for CNN and 10% for NPR/PBS
* 33% of Fox viewers believed that the "U.S. has found Iraqi weapons of mass destruction" "since the war ended". (Compared with 23% for CBS, 20% for both CNN and NBC, 19% for ABC and 11% for both NPR/PBS)
* 35% of Fox viewers believed that "the majority of people [in the world] favor the U.S. having gone to war" with Iraq. (Compared with 28% for CBS, 27% for ABC, 24% for CNN, 20% for NBC, 5% for NPR/PBS)
from Political Science Monthly (pdf)

Of course, most people probably know this already.

Also, for anyone who hasn't seen it, here's that documentary Outfoxed: Rupert Murdoch's War on Journalism (google video).

Anyone have any other fun Fox News clips? Any Fox News fans out there?

[yawarakaijin]

F#cking beautiful video LOL. My god, what will people say 100 years from now about the direction t.v news has taken.

[freethought]

Saw the video earlier. I used to track fox news pretty vehemently, but now I just find it exceedingly annoying and angering.

A good site to visit to stay in the loop of the fox f-ups and bogus reporting is http://www.crooksandliars.com/

[bucheon bum]

Most Fox affiliates have the fox logo in the lower right corner during news broadcasts (such as the one in the video). The affiliate here in the Bay Area, however, does not have anything that says Fox on it during the news. Hmmm, I wonder why. Perhaps because it has historically been the #1 late night news program and it knows it would lose viewers by the thousands here in the liberal Bay Area.

That being said, there was a rumor that one of the two anchors quit last fall because Fox was becoming more and more involved with the broadcasts and she got fed up. That's just a rumor though. She had 3 years left on her contract, and had been one of the two top anchors for the past 8 years. Her departure was a bit odd.

[Gopher]

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[gang ah jee]

[mindmetoo]

[Gopher]

[Woland]

Fox is willing to take up the tough fights, like dowsing:

http://www.eslcafe.com/forums/korea/viewtopic.php?p=1124238&highlight=#1124238

What greater courage could we want?

[huffdaddy]

[freethought]

[gang ah jee]

I just saw this terrifying video here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u0Gwz-2qB7o

It's of O'Reilly going absolutely medieval on Geraldo - actually getting so threatening at one point that Geraldo flinches - about whether the death of a child was because of drunk driving or because of illegal aliens (O'Reilly's pretty sure it's the aliens).

I know the man is just a right-wing version of Stephen Colbert, but as I understand it his show is something of a flagship for Fox. Ugh.

Oh, and found some more info on the video in the OP:

Listen to what the anchors are saying: "...The Opinion Research Group ran its annual April Fools Day poll..."

[fiveeagles]

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