The only other major disagreement with Turtle is his interpretation that when Fox News makes a mistake with a story that is intentional and calls is a lie. I don't think it is intentional,which is the essence of a lie, so it is merely a mistake.
My disagreement is that not
all of the mistakes they claim are mistakes are actually mistakes, that some of them are intentional. The "mischievous speculation" is just the tip of that iceberg. There is no question that Fox News makes some truly honest mistakes, but again, how many of their random, honest mistakes are mistakes slanted in favor of the left? None. All of their mistakes are slanted in favor of the right, rather than being randomly slanted in either direction as would be the case with truly honest mistakes. It's certainly possible, but not very probable that each and every mistakes puts the left in a bad light. Human nature and human error being what it is makes it a virtual statistical impossibility.
I don't think there is any question that the left-leaning MSM networks lie all the time, and do so intentionally. CNN leans so far left you practically have to lie on the floor to watch them. By the same token, so does Fox, because they are the flip-side of that same coin token.
So, we're left with two possible scenarios with Fox News. One, they are so inept and so incompetent as to make mistake after mistake, all favoring the right, that they constantly have to apologize for, or two, they are not incompetent and inept at all and most of their "mistakes" aren't mistakes. It's my opinion that in either case they are neither reliable nor credible, and cannot be trusted.
Fox News does present opposing viewpoints more often than the left MSM media, no question. They're not even as far-right conservative as people think they are (they're actually quite centrist and even liberal on many issues, and they're particularly weak at criticizing the gay agenda and abortion issues. They found Sarah Palin to be too conservative, which is why they didn't renew her contract). But there's a meaning to everything Fox News does, and it's not just to be "Fair and Balanced," rest assured. The notion of "fair and balanced" is pure marketing, pure propaganda. Watch Fox News for any random hour and see how often you read or hear that phrase. If you repeat something enough times, people will believe it. Recognize it when you see it. It's a safe bet that if you're told something, anything, over and over and over again, it's something that should be doubted. Because, for some reason they really,
really want you to believe it, and more than likely you believing it is more in their interest than your own.
As Roger Ailes, the President of Fox News, so aptly noted about the left MSM networks, "if those networks actually did fair and balanced, we'd be out of business."
Ironically, by Faux News (there's a reason they're known by that name) using "fair and balanced" as a propaganda slogan when they're not really and truly fair and balanced, it actually allows liberal propaganda, lies, deceit, and half-truths to gain an audience of hard core believers who reject the conservative propaganda, lies, deceit, and half-truths.
Still, to be fair if not balanced, all is not lost for Fox, as among all the major broadcast and cable news networks, they have the one, single, unique straightforward news show that is truly fair and balanced with a centrist, non-biased slant, that news show being
Special Report with Brit Hume. It stands alone above the crap on all of the networks.
