Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone

[Cow Poke]

Seems Fox News has been caught grossly misportraying the Seattle protests.

They repeated photo-shopped a picture of an armed man into the front of multiple different pictures they showed of the Seattle protests. And they used images of burning buildings in Minnesota above their headlines about Seattle.

Apparently what's actually happening in Seattle is too... boring... for them, and they need to spice it up with lies about guns and fires to keep their audience sufficiently terrorised.

That's pretty bad. Can they have their media license revoked?

Only if they revoke the license of all the MSM outlets faking the news --- I remember one where they needed to show raging war in (Syira?) where it was a quiet day, so they copy/pasted plumes of smoke to make it look like the city was burning all over the place. It was a very amateurish photoshop that it was easily exposed --- or the rigged "pickup truck explosion" or.....

While it's not right for Fox News to do this, it seems to be all too common in the news "business".

[Cow Poke]

Essentially they combined several pictures into one and misidentified a photo from Minneapolis as being from Seattle. The latter is well known enough that it was likely a screw up but the former was deliberate.

As for license revoked? As of late such stuff garners accolades among liberals or is ignored.

Wow.... lookie here....



When was the last time you saw something like this from the MSM that was not preceded by a very expensive legal battle?

[Leonhard]

Wow.... lookie here....



When was the last time you saw something like this from the MSM that was not preceded by a very expensive legal battle?

Well Fox News just did, and since they're an MSM, doesn't that mean that you've just seen it?

Jab aside I definitely remember other news stations having done the same. Don't have a link though, only memories of it having happened other times. I'm always glad when a news station does this.

[DesertBerean]

Another reason I distrust news....

They did a report saying that the Viet Cong had attacked and destroyed a town, and it devastated my mom because she knew Dad was at that location. Turns out to be yellow journalism...some reporters apparently decided to spice up their reports. My parents were infuriated (as were other families from what they told me). And a whole bunch of newspeople got into very very hot water.

I don't see accountablilty happening that much now.


Edited: forgot to mention they even falsified film clips.

[Cow Poke]

Well Fox News just did, and since they're an MSM, doesn't that mean that you've just seen it?

They're not the MSM in the sense that term was coined, Leon --- sure, they've been around long enough that they're one of the "big boys", but they are certainly not considered "MSM".

Jab aside I definitely remember other news stations having done the same. Don't have a link though, only memories of it having happened other times. I'm always glad when a news station does this.

[Cow Poke]

Another reason I distrust news....

They did a report saying that the Viet Cong had attacked and destroyed a town, and it devastated my mom because she knew Dad was at that location. Turns out to be yellow journalism...some reporters apparently decided to spice up their reports. My parents were infuriated (as were other familes from what they told me). And a whole bunch of newspeople got into very very hot water.

I don't see accountablilty happening that much now.

I remember a situation in Lebanon where a news crew was, apparently, having a slow news day, so they "invented" a rocket attack near their location, with breathless reporting... Problem was there was another news crew nearby 'stealing their feed', so they rushed to the location to find people wandering around, shopping, enjoying the bright sunshiney day, while this other crew breathlessly reported on "the attack".

I'll have to find that one - it's a beauty.

[DesertBerean]

I remember a situation in Lebanon where a news crew was, apparently, having a slow news day, so they "invented" a rocket attack near their location, with breathless reporting... Problem was there was another news crew nearby 'stealing their feed', so they rushed to the location to find people wandering around, shopping, enjoying the bright sunshiney day, while this other crew breathlessly reported on "the attack".

I'll have to find that one - it's a beauty.

Sounds familiar.

[Leonhard]

They're not the MSM in the sense that term was coined, Leon --- sure, they've been around long enough that they're one of the "big boys", but they are certainly not considered "MSM".

I don't buy the whole MSM thing, or that Fox News is in any way more objective or lacking in problems you attribute to other media.

[Ronson]

Sounds familiar.

Sounds similar to the tall tales told by Hillary Clinton and Brian Williams.

[Starlight]

They're not the MSM in the sense that term was coined, Leon --- sure, they've been around long enough that they're one of the "big boys", but they are certainly not considered "MSM".

I wouldn't regard Fox News as truthful enough to classify as 'mainstream'. They are alternative in the sense of 'alternative facts'.

[Cow Poke]

I don't buy the whole MSM thing, or that Fox News is in any way more objective or lacking in problems you attribute to other media.

Actually, I'm not defending Fox News -- if and when they do something deceptive, I'll happily denounce it. I don't watch Fox News.

[Cow Poke]

I wouldn't regard Fox News as truthful enough to classify as 'mainstream'.

From what I watched of Fox News, it was mostly commentary. You get the difference, yes?

They are alternative in the sense of 'alternative facts'.

So, the MSM has their "alternate facts" and Fox News has their "alternate facts"?

[Sparko]

Seems Fox News has been caught grossly misportraying the Seattle protests.

They repeated photo-shopped a picture of an armed man into the front of multiple different pictures they showed of the Seattle protests. And they used images of burning buildings in Minnesota above their headlines about Seattle.

Apparently what's actually happening in Seattle is too... boring... for them, and they need to spice it up with lies about guns and fires to keep their audience sufficiently terrorised.

That's pretty bad. Can they have their media license revoked?

That's obviously a collage, you can see through the people in the background. What was the context of the original use of this photo? I don't see that as misleading if they weren't showing it as a news photo. If it was just a collage at the top of a story about the CHAZ, then that is fine.

The use of fires in Minnesota while claiming it was in Seattle, that is definitely wrong though.

[Whateverman]

They're not the MSM in the sense that term was coined, Leon --- sure, they've been around long enough that they're one of the "big boys", but they are certainly not considered "MSM".

Sorry, but Fox is very much mainstream.

If people want to whine about liberal media, then they should say so, rather than pretending all news outlets are unreliable.

[Cow Poke]

Sorry, but Fox is very much mainstream.

Now.

If people want to whine about liberal media, then they should say so, rather than pretending all news outlets are unreliable.

Whatever, man.