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12 most despicable things Fox News did in 2012http://www.salon.com/2013/01/05/12_most_despicable_things_fox_news_did_in_2012/
Saturday, Jan 5, 2013 05:00 AM PST
From producing its own anti-Obama video to spinning furiously on unemployment, the network had a banner year
By Mark Howard, Alternet
2012 was a dismal year for Fox News. The PR arm of the GOP failed to fulfill its prime directive: advancing the interests of Mitt Romney and the Republican Party. It spent much of the year constructing an alternative reality that left millions of its flock in shock when President Obama won an overwhelming reelection. It refused to accept the facts on the ground and denigrated polls (even its own) when the results conflicted with the fictional narrative it was peddling. And perhaps most painful of all, Fox surrendered its ratings lead to MSNBC. Two-thirds of its primetime lineup (Hannity and Van Susteren) dropped to second place behind the competition on MSNBC (Maddow and ODonnell). However, Foxs travails did not occur for lack of effort. It was clearly operating at the top of its capacity to distort and deceive. In the process it unleashed some of the most feverishly biased reporting, even for Fox News. What follows are a few of the worst departures from ethical journalism by Fox in the last year.
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Twelve most despicable things Fox News did in 2012 (Original Post)
Coyotl
Jan 2013
OP
you should have warned people about the huge picture of the witch above the article
farminator3000
Jan 2013
#6
zbdent
(35,392 posts)1. top should be
existing ...
tabasco
(22,974 posts)2. Traitorous, gutless liars and media whores
Fox "News" makes me puke.
Boomerproud
(7,952 posts)4. Only 12? Oh, never mind-just the TOP 12.
I get it. Their hate will be their ultimate downfall-it just can't come soon enough.
Scurrilous
(38,687 posts)5. K & R
farminator3000
(2,117 posts)6. you should have warned people about the huge picture of the witch above the article
she is scary!
bLAH! she isn't even mentioned in the article! gross!