Truth be damned! Fox News Wins Lawsuit to Legally DISTORT news!

[Ghoulish Delight]

So because it's not aimed at me as its target audience, I shouldn't be concerned about the fact that it spreads lies as news?

[sleepyjeff]

Originally Posted by Tref

Should we ignore evil? Should we ignore lies? Should we ignore abuse?

Originally Posted by Ghoulish Delight

So because it's not aimed at me as its target audience, I shouldn't be concerned about the fact that it spreads lies as news?

Let me try an example here(and I am horrible at these analogies so bear with me) to better illustrate what I am saying:

If you were standing at a bus stop and someone said something that wasn't true(in your opinion, of course) to someone else standing there you might interupt and tell them that they are wrong.........but would you follow them around all day telling everyone they encountered that they are wrong?

Concerened is one thing but I am talking about what seems to me to be an obsession.

[Tref]

Originally Posted by sleepyjeff

Let me try an example here(and I am horrible at these analogies so bear with me) to better illustrate what I am saying:

If you were standing at a bus stop and someone said something that wasn't true(in your opinion, of course) to someone else standing there you might interupt and tell them that they are wrong.........but would you follow them around all day telling everyone they encountered that they are wrong?

Concerened is one thing but I am talking about what seems to me to be an obsession.

Well, what if that person told somebody else the lie and they told somebody else the lie and so on and so on. Pretty soon it is the truth as we know it. In the meantime, our children drink milk with growth hormones and we have girls reaching puberty at nine, abnormally tall five year olds, etc ...

But anyway ... I am hep to what you are saying, SJ. I just don't agree.

[Ghoulish Delight]

Originally Posted by sleepyjeff

If you were standing at a bus stop and someone said something that wasn't true(in your opinion, of course) to someone else standing there you might interupt and tell them that they are wrong.........but would you follow them around all day telling everyone they encountered that they are wrong?

And if I came across that same person at the same bus stop every day, and he had a bullhorn yelling the same lies to every person who passed by?

[sleepyjeff]

Originally Posted by Tref

Should we ignore evil? Should we ignore lies? Should we ignore abuse?

I suppose not.

Originally Posted by Ghoulish Delight

And if I came across that same person at the same bus stop every day, and he had a bullhorn yelling the same lies to every person who passed by?

Good point.

Still; not too long ago we were talking about how horrible Fox was for doing a story about Mr. Rogers.....when NPR did the same story. To me this says that you're more concerned about conservatives being lied to than non-cons.....which is where my confusion comes in.

[Ghoulish Delight]

Originally Posted by sleepyjeff

I suppose not.



Good point.

Still; not too long ago we were talking about how horrible Fox was for doing a story about Mr. Rogers.....when NPR did the same story. To me this says that you're more concerned about conservatives being lied to than non-cons.....which is where my confusion comes in.

It's not about what stories are covered, it's how they're covered.

I didn't hear the NPR version of the story, so I can't comment on it.

[scaeagles]

I don't know....

Sounds like these guys are pretty self serving. But I guess it's all about what you want to believe.

Court documents show Wilson conceded "there's not really a lot of difference between" their script and what was approved by their managers.

And Sugg wrote that the two had been fired by the station for repeated acts of insubordination. That was the station’s position. The reporters claimed they were fired for being whistleblowers. The station prevailed when an appeals court ruled the state’s whistleblower statute didn’t apply.