Leonard Pitts: Reasons that I mistrust Fox

[IDemo]

12:44 PM Friday, October 2, 2009

Perhaps you are familiar with an old saying: even a broken clock is right twice a day. I’ve found that maxim valuable as I wade through the recent hand-wringing and recrimination among journalists and their critics over the fact that most mainstream media were slow to pick up on the story of corruption at ACORN.

New York Times ombudsman Clark Hoyt (a former colleague) and Andrew Alexander, his counterpart at the Washington Post, are among those who have asked whether that laggard performance reflects an unfortunate deafness to conservative media. As one of my readers put it, “There is a lot wrong with ACORN, and Fox was the only channel talking about it.”

I might join this pity party if I thought Fox a credible news source. I do not. Consider just a few of the network’s and its hosts’ recent lowlights:

June 3: In a column Bill O’Reilly says he never called murdered abortion doctor George Tiller “a baby killer.”

more -> http://www.journal-news.com/opinion/columnists/leonard-pitts-reasons-that-i-mistrust-fox-news-328024.html

edit to add - The Faux "facts" on Acorn turn out to be less than factual

[unblock]

1. well i trust fauxnews implicitly

i trust them to lie routinely to serve right-wing and republican party interests.
i trust them to accuse others of whatever it is they they themselves are guilty of.
i trust them to be all propaganda, all the time.

[felinetta]

2. What about the number of times Fox puts the letter "D" after repulican names when the repub does

something wrong.  Or how about when they labeled Iraq
"Egypt" on a map.  And the other day they put on
their screen 149 millions Americans don't have jobs.  These
aren't typos.  They deliberately
set out to lie and deceive and thus chose not to be credible.
The result: smart people don't listen to their drivel.

[troubledamerican]

3. Purely coincidence. Don't be a Tinfoil Conspiracy Theorist.

Remain calm. There is nothing wrong. Do not ask questions. Thank you, we now resume your DU re-programming.

[VPStoltz]

4. But even he in this article says Fox got is right on ACORN, which it did not.

The Fox "investigation" of ACORN is based on rumor, conjectures and outright lies.

[Tutankhamun]

5. Fox isn't even a news channel. It's just an imitation of a news channel,

designed to fool the gullible in accordance with Rupert Murdoch's conservative views. It's ludicrous that any genuine news media outlet would actually publicly pretend otherwise.