Fox joins CBS?

Drolgin Steingrinder · October 4, 2004, 8:22 am

http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainmen ... 4107c.html

Apparently, CBS aren't the only ones attributing quotes 'too good to be true' to a candidate.

Kluden · Post by **Kluden** » October 4, 2004, 9:42 am

"I'm a metrosexual...he's a cowboy!"

What's wrong with that quote??

Sionistic · Post by **Sionistic** » October 4, 2004, 11:01 am

Liberal response: See? Even fake sources get through sometimes.
Conservative response:This was just a small mishap, and it wasnt even as serious as what Dan did.

Rekaar. · Post by **Rekaar.** » October 4, 2004, 3:54 pm

Guy writes a joke piece that was never intended to be published let alone passed off as truth and somehow Dan Rather is vindicated?

no =p

Keverian FireCry · Post by **Keverian FireCry** » October 4, 2004, 4:20 pm

Next thing you know they'll be targetting the Daily Show or TheOnion.com for printing false quotes. This is BS, and though I think the Dan Rather situation was blown way out of proportion, this Fox thing is in no way like the CBS fuck-up. However this is another thing that shows that Fox is not fair and balanced, the network is far more concerned about spreading their opinion than spreading news.

Kaldaur · Post by **Kaldaur** » October 4, 2004, 4:47 pm

The only difference is, Keverian, the Daily Show and theOnion make quite sure that their intended audiences are aware of the fact that their news is fake. Fox News does not market themselves as a fake news source. With that said, I don't really see how this could be a technical error (unless the editing process for their web team is horribly out of control, this piece should have never been put on the docket) but it's just a silly little article, nothing on scope with the Rather story. Fox does need, however, to be careful about accidently putting stupid works like these on their site, or they risk further anger for being accused of right-wing politics.

Thess · Post by **Thess** » October 4, 2004, 5:04 pm

For a news source, Fox sure jokes a lot without saying 'it's a joke'

Voronwë · Post by **Voronwë** » October 4, 2004, 6:21 pm

i heard something today which i don't know if it is a fact or not. The reporter who wrote this alledged joke piece is their Chief White House Correspondant. The fact that he is writing joke pieces like this at all is pretty questionable. But supposedly this guy's wife is actively campaigning for George Bush. That is her right as an American, but it is unethical for a journalist who covers politics to contribute money to a candidate or in any way have a relationship with their campaign.

I can't imagine somebody in the journalistic units of a major network writing this kind of thing on a work computer about any presidential candidate on the heels of a presidential debate - let alone if that person's job is to cover the White House. I can understand somebody joking about one fo the guys being a tool or whatever, but writing it down on a PC in a format that just somehow magically gets submitted to the organization's news website is extremely dubious.

Keverian FireCry · Post by **Keverian FireCry** » October 4, 2004, 7:16 pm

The only difference is, Keverian, the Daily Show and theOnion make quite sure that their intended audiences are aware of the fact that their news is fake. Fox News does not market themselves as a fake news source.

I was pretty obvious to me that it was a joke, though i did watch the full debate so knew he never said that. I guess that since their audience are all anal retentive christians with no sense of humour they might have thought it was true, and got off on it. But to educated people, aka, not their audience it was obviously a joke. The reason I don't see this as a big deal is because Fox, as well as other media outlets have misslead their unlearned audiences for years.

The Al Gore inventing the internet was one of the worst, because he never said that here's what he said and seeing how close the election was, I wouldn't be suprised if it played a part in Bush's winning

During my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating the Internet. I took the initiative in moving forward a whole range of initiatives that have proven to be important to our country's economic growth and environmental protection, improvements in our educational system.

What he meant, and any honest human would understand this, is that he passed initiatives to help create the internet. You have to be incredibly cynical to take what he said as that he meant he invented it. He may have worded it badly, but he had no intention of convincing the people that he invented the internet.

There were a lot of people in congress that saw no need for it, and Gore and others pushed it forward. So he did partake in creating the internet, not at the technical end of things, but at the economic/political level of it's creation and that is very important.