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Coyotl

(15,262 posts)
Sat Jan 5, 2013, 08:49 PM Jan 2013

Twelve most despicable things Fox News did in 2012

12 most despicable things Fox News did in 2012
http://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 O’Donnell). However, Fox’s 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
top should be zbdent Jan 2013 #1
Traitorous, gutless liars and media whores tabasco Jan 2013 #2
+1 Buzz Clik Jan 2013 #3
Only 12? Oh, never mind-just the TOP 12. Boomerproud Jan 2013 #4
K & R Scurrilous Jan 2013 #5
you should have warned people about the huge picture of the witch above the article farminator3000 Jan 2013 #6

Boomerproud

(7,952 posts)
4. Only 12? Oh, never mind-just the TOP 12.
Sat Jan 5, 2013, 09:46 PM
Jan 2013

I get it. Their hate will be their ultimate downfall-it just can't come soon enough.

farminator3000

(2,117 posts)
6. you should have warned people about the huge picture of the witch above the article
Sat Jan 5, 2013, 11:43 PM
Jan 2013

she is scary!

bLAH! she isn't even mentioned in the article! gross!

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