Fibbing It Up at Fox

[RBHam]

by Dale Steinreich, LewRockwell.com

Flat out lies should be confronted
~ Bill O'Reilly; Fox News Channel; May 22, 2003

Since the Iraq conflict began on March 20, Fox News has been on a mission to legitimize it. One problem for Fox's protracted apologia is that despite promises of evidence of current weapons of mass destruction (WMDs) by the Bush Administration, the evidence has been ambiguous at best. Unfortunately for the network, I’ve been keeping a scratch diary of their reports since the war began.

Keep in mind that in the first three weeks of March, before the bombs started officially dropping, Fox was spreading all sorts of Pentagon propaganda. Iraq had "drones" that it could quickly dispatch to major U.S. metropolitan areas to spread biological agents. Saddam was handing out chemical weapons to the Republican guard to use against coalition troops in a last-ditch red-zone ring around Baghdad. Given what we now know about Iraq, these reports seem to be laughable fantasies, but they were effective in securing public backing for the war. The following is a short chronicle of lies, propagation of lies, exaggerations, distortions, spin, and conjecture presented as fact. My comments are in brackets < >s.

the chronicle...
http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig/steinreich8.html

[papau]

1. Fox is the media of the future - a "niche" propaganda outlet - thank God

the FCC understands and will not try to bring back the fairness doctrine that would destroy this Hitler era like media developement.

[bryant69]

3. See I'd actually be ok with that

If we were allowed / had the wherewithall to create a liberal / progressive news network. The problem is that society apparently has agreed that CNN / MSNBC / Network News are liberal so that counterbalances Fox. But those organizations aren't all that liberal (if at all).

Bryant
Check it out --> http://politicalcomment.blogspot.com

[NewJeffCT]

4. I think CNN may quietly be to the right of Fox

They don't wear their partisanship on their sleeves like Faux News people, but ever since that infamous meeting of CNN Execs and Republican leaders in Congress in 2000, CNN has made a hard right turn in an effort to win back Faux News viewers. Unfortunately, Faux News viewers still don't trust the "Clinton News Network" and liberals like us have been turned off by the right turn of CNN. The result is plummeting ratings at CNN.

[Dr Ron]

5. CNN Now Conservative

The Republicans know they have CNN in their pocket as much as Fox:

http://www.lightupthedarkness.org/blog/default.asp?view=plink&id=337

[Roland99]

2. I'd like to see that updated all the way through today.