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Fox News Sinks To New Low, Reports Satirical Story As Actual News (video)

thinkprogress.org — On Tuesday, Fox News morning show "Fox & Friends" aired at least eight segments on a purported "news" story that was actually a parody article written by a publication similar to The Onion.

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  • thomas, on 10/12/2007, -25/+72I have always found that show to be a joke but that is hilarious. Although the fact that so many fox news viewers believed them and tried to go after the real school is just plain scary.
    • JCSaint, on 10/14/2007, -22/+66Yet another example of a failure of independent reporting and fact checking. "Someone said it so it must be true!"
    • goeatsmsht, on 10/14/2007, -19/+94The best part is the reporter says "This sounds as if it was from The Onion"!!!!!!
    • christopheles, on 10/12/2007, -23/+92The worst part is that dude is telling the truth when he says "We're not making this up." Someone else made it up.

      FOX "News". We report (anything as news). You decide (whether or not we're reprehensible).
    • aschocobo, on 10/12/2007, -23/+27"Although the fact that so many fox news viewers believed them and tried to go after the real school is just plain scary."
      even scarier than that is that this supposedly legitimate "journalist" organization really does believe everything they read off the tubes, and then passes it off as true. first the Obama/massadra crap, and now this...interesting...
      y'know i suddenly have an urge to create a parody site of my own and start sending fox news fantabulous stories from "anonymous" sources...
    • sjl127, on 10/12/2007, -93/+24Wow, all you people really have something against Fox - Real reporting, fair and balanced, hurts - doesn't it... Continue on watching your liberal garbage 2nd class media (HA HA) outlets.

      Communist news network and pmsnbc.

      Now I'm going to digg you all down.
    • sjl127, on 10/12/2007, -84/+23Oh yeah, and another thing about thinkprogress, stupid *****, scum-sucking commie America-hating propaganda worthless website.
    • mikeneilson, on 10/12/2007, -44/+28I know that the Digg community has a special hate for FoxNews, but every major news organization does this from time to time. Granted, that doesn't make it excusable, less stupid, or less embarrassing.

      The point is, it happens. When every channel is clamoring to fill their schedule with 24 hours of news a day, you get some crap stories in there. To turn this goof into "FoxNews sucks and everyone who watches it is a NeoCon scumbag LOLerzz!!!!!" just makes actual intelligent arguments more weak.

      For the record, I have seen that morning show a few times, and I can't stand it. I don't find those douchebag "reporters" to be funny at all, and it seems like they are trying way too hard to be.
    • masamunecyrus, on 10/12/2007, -32/+17I've seen a lot of reasons to bash FOX News, but this is not one of them. News stations do this kind of thing all the time, and it's certainly better than when they reported on outright lies during Hurricane Katrina.
    • slashdotted, on 10/12/2007, -10/+17On a whim, I decided to see if other news outlets thought this was news because it was on Fox.
      guess what!!:
      http://www.jbs.org/node/3620

      Now other news stenographers who don't fact-check are picking it up!!
      other non-journalist's in sheep's clothing can pick up the story as, "Fox News reports..."

      This is not journalism (which involves fact-checking) -- not just finding a right-side pundit and a left-side pundit, but asking scientists/experts, pounding the pavement, and being intellectually honest. There aren't two sides of facts.

      this is just how PR and talking points -- regardless of ideology.

      This is how lies spread. In this case they just happened to be easily refuted -- which often isn't the case (say if the article was published in the Washington Times, for instance)
    • schuder, on 10/12/2007, -22/+19Dan Rather anyone? This is clearly a mistake and was not intentional. It was stupid and Fox commonly does make stupid moves but this wasn't intentionally created. Why don't we start submitting stories without the bias commentary and let the readers make up their own minds about it. I'm so sick of the attacks on Fox, by doing it you just give them more credibility.
    • greysun, on 10/12/2007, -13/+44I'm marking this story as inaccurate...

      The site (www.associatedcontent.com) is NOT a parody site...ThinkProgress obviously didn't do their fact checking either.

      Although the story was in the HUMOR section, you can see in the google cache that there was NO INDICATION THAT THE STORY WAS NOT TRUE!

      http://209.85.165.104/search?q=cache:HYgJY1lHWgoJ:www.associatedcontent.com/article/224065/student_leaves_ham_sandwich_on_lunch.html+site:www.associatedcontent.com+ham+sandwich&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=1&gl=us

      I do, however, still fault the reporters for not fact checking



      and yes, I posted this below... but I figure I'm gonna get dugg down anyway for telling the truth so I might as well go down in multiple flames.
    • Zzone, on 10/12/2007, -6/+3those reporters aren't stupid, they get paid to report news that is given to them. I think it was hilarious that they couldn't take it serious and that their producers are now going to be ***** canned.
    • DildoOreilly, on 10/12/2007, -16/+4I can't tell the difference between FOX "news" and a comedy channel. How can you take those idiots seriously?!!

      I mean, who is the one who got caught rodgering himself in the butt with a dildo? Whenever I see this guy now an image appears of O'Reilly with his legs kicked up over his head pounding his keester with a "Mandingo Model 12"

      I don't even remember what he said before I turned the channel.

      http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/1013043mackris1.html
    • tituspullo71, on 10/12/2007, -10/+17i think it's great people are so scared of fox.
    • SecondGuesser, on 10/12/2007, -7/+23As opposed to CBS and Dan Rather, who reported that a completely phony memo about the president's National Guard service was in fact authentic. Was that a "new low" worthy of Diggers' universal scorn?

      At least the Onion story was broadcast out of stupidity, not out of conspiracy to swing an election.

      The bias of this place kills me.
    • Boor, on 10/12/2007, -6/+5I saw it on the internet, it must be true.
    • chijim70, on 10/12/2007, -9/+3Murdoch: Ok, we got 3 more minutes to fill right toward the end... what do we got?
      Bill: HEY INTERN! See what ya can google me up that'll fill 3 minutes and I got lunch.
      Intern: SURE! Thanks boss!
      Murdoch: Atta boy Bill!
    • SeafoodGumbo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+16This story is true. I guess ThinkProgress assumed it was wrong because Fox got some of the particulars wrong, but the story really did happen.

      http://www.sunjournal.com/story/208385-3/LewistonAuburn/Hate_incident_in_city/

      I'm suprised that so many diggers have a hard time believing it when you consider a recent "pig incident" in the Netherlands where 9 and 10 year olds trashed a classroom just because of talk of farms and pigs:

      ---AMSTERDAM, 27/04/07 - A school in Amsterdam has halted lessons on rural life because the Islamic children refused to talk about pigs. Reporting this, Alderman Lodewijk Asscher said he wants to take "tough measures." Subsidies for all kinds of dubious groups must stop and parents of unruly children penalised financially.

      Asscher told newspaper De Volkskrant: "A primary school in Amsterdam-Noord has decided no longer to teach about living on a farm. Various pupils began to demolish the classroom when the pig came up for discussion. Apparently it has gone that far. These children, 9, 10 years old, have not been given even the most elementary rules at home about why they must go to school."----
      http://www.nisnews.nl/public/270407_1.htm


    • ArcherB, on 10/12/2007, -1/+13I'm sure I'll get "Dug down" for stating the truth that no one wants to hear, but my research shows that either the story is true or Fox is not the only site to report this. Are all these sites right-wing propaganda outfits?
      http://www.jbs.org/node/3620
      http://www.libertypost.org/cgi-bin/readart.cgi?ArtNum=185105
      http://www.sunjournal.com/story/209231-3/LewistonAuburn/Ham_report_stirs_mess/
      http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20070424052024AAYuVpj
      and even one in Boston:
      http://www.boston.com/news/local/maine/articles/2007/04/19/police_investigate_ham_incident_at_school/?rss_id=Boston.com+--+Maine+news

      Of course, these are just a few examples. Are all these sites wrong?

      Here's a quote from one yet another source found here http://newsbyus.com/more.php?id=8028_0_1_0_M:
      Although a parody of ostensible “joke-quotes” was composed and written about the Lewiston, Maine ham incident, the actual story is more compelling - because it’s true. Unfortunately, many news sources and commentators - I was not one of these - quoted the parody as fact. The actual facts surrounding the incident include: On 11 April, responding to a dare, a Lewiston Middle School student placed ham on a cafeteria table where Muslim Somali students were eating. Muslims consider pork to be unclean. The “offending student” was suspended from the school. Also accurate is that a report was filed by the school’s resource officer Bill Brochu and, according to the Sun Journal, “was sent to the Attorney General’s Office for review and to the Androscoggin County District Attorney’s Office for review for possible harassment charges.” School Principal Maureen Lachapelle advised the report was filed and forwarded on “because the ham incident was perceived as a hate/bias crime.”

      Many are now attempting to use the parody as “proof” that the incident did not occur. But, it did.
      _________________________________________________________________________________
      So, this is true, and I'm speaking the truth. Are you guys so cynical as dig down the truth and dig false information?

  • ate50eggs, on 10/12/2007, -34/+141To be fair, Fox News is a parody.
    • bdpf, on 10/12/2007, -23/+2Fox news is clueless. Give a cat licker a beef sandwich on Friday.
      A joke is not a hate crime.
      Get real people, branding them on the a** with a X would be a hate crime.
      It would be nicer to let them take their tender minds back to the home country.
      Every person has had some kind of joke played on them. GEE what boobies or are they trying to make it a hate crime for they publicity?
      What have they done to cause someone to play this kind of joke?
      What about bullies in that school?
      Are there guns? Is it a gun free zone ? DUH!




    • bobcrotch, on 10/12/2007, -17/+9yeah same with CNN
    • DildoOreilly, on 10/12/2007, -19/+8BELIEVE THE OPPOSITE OF WHAT FOX "NEWS" SAYS
      and you will know the truth
    • DildoOreilly, on 10/12/2007, -24/+4FOX NOT ONLY STRETCHES THE TRUTH

      THEY HACK IT UP WITH A MACHETE, POISON IT WITH ANTHRAX, BLOW IT UP WITH NUKE TIPPED BOMBS, BURY IT IN TONS OF CEMENT, AND THEN DIG IT BACK UP WITH A PICK AXE SO THEY CAN RECONSTRUCT IT TO WHERE ITS AS GOOD AS NEW.
    • MSF2, on 10/12/2007, -2/+22STOP YELLING
    • appleann1, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6Not as much as you guys are.
  • cweathers, on 10/12/2007, -28/+61I don't know what's unravelling faster, the administration or its private news outlet.
  • shawnfassett, on 10/12/2007, -14/+39Seriously, where is the FCC? Oh yeah...they're busy taking apart PBS.
    • PirateChaOS, on 10/12/2007, -13/+11they can go ***** themselves. They were created to keep people from infringing on the frequency of others, but now they think they can censort the content of said transmissions, which is complete *****.
    • DildoOreilly, on 10/12/2007, -13/+4MOST ADS ON FOX ARE DRUG ADS... advertising the same kind of anti-depressants that the VT killer was on.

      'WHOS' "looking out for you again? Oh yeah, thats right, a Tabloid Anal doiser pervert who likes to write books for children!
  • SJkiteboarder, on 10/12/2007, -16/+19I used to live in Lewiston. It's full of white trash. That whole city if full of ignorance and hate. The Somali population there is hard working and honest and they're only trying to make a better life for themselves after escaping the war and death in Somalia.
    • nuclearpenguins, on 10/12/2007, -8/+5Dugg for a fellow Mainer.
    • lcarsdeveloper, on 10/12/2007, -6/+14I'm in Australia, we've got a lot of African immigrants who live here now. The young males like to dress up in the same clothes as American rappers and street gangs, they stand out like a sore thumb. If you observe them long enough, and watch how they all smile and say hello to each other when they get on the bus with people from their own country, then you'd know that they're nice hard working people who feel privileged to be in this country. They just like to dress up like the guys they see on TV. But you also see the elderly population give them funny looks thinking "they dress like a New York street gang, so they must be criminals". Even I had that thought pop into my head briefly, right before one of them stood to the side of the door and let me get on the bus first, even though he was in front of me in the line! Very nice people, they should be respected no matter where they go in the world because of where they have come from and what they have been through. I'm not sure where they're from exactly, if it's Somalia or Kenya, but one of them is my local bus driver and he does a better job than most Australians in the same position!
  • christopheles, on 10/12/2007, -22/+8Didn't they cite The Onion once? I don't think this is the first time they've cited fake news.
  • aschocobo, on 10/12/2007, -9/+26i bet the folks who did the original parody piece is laughing their asses off right now...
    • greysun, on 10/12/2007, -12/+10I'm marking this story as inaccurate...

      The site is NOT a parody site... although the story was in the HUMOR section, you can see in the google cache that there was NO INDICATION THE STORY WAS NOT TRUE!

      http://209.85.165.104/search?q=cache:HYgJY1lHWgoJ:www.associatedcontent.com/article/224065/student_leaves_ham_sandwich_on_lunch.html+site:www.associatedcontent.com+ham+sandwich&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=1&gl=us

      I do, however, still fault the reporters for not fact checking

    • pintomp3, on 10/12/2007, -8/+17or crying. the islamophobes couldn't wait to start placing angry calls and emails to the school system. reminds me of that radio host who said we should make muslims wear arm bands with stars and cresents. he was dismayed at the outpouring of support for the idea.
    • greysun, on 10/12/2007, -8/+9I need to clarify that I meant that there was no 'Editor's Note' at the top of the page saying that it was a "parody".

      In this day and age, is the story really that unbelievable?

      I'm sure every news station has done something like this.
    • radmarshallb, on 10/12/2007, -9/+6@ Greysun

      Really? You need an editor's note to determine that the story is parody? Did you even read it? There's no way any rational person can read that article and believe for one second that it's true. Seriously, RTFA.
    • laserblazer, on 10/12/2007, -5/+1They owned 'em good.
    • jameshoban, on 10/12/2007, -3/+7This is from their "About Us" page:

      http://www.associatedcontent.com/company.html


      "Associated Content is The People's Media Company, the ultimate destination site for both the inquisitive public and Content Producers from around the world. Associated Content curates and publishes a robust, ever-expanding collection of engaging, insightful, original multimedia content on the Web, connecting information seekers with the knowledge they want and the widest range of diverse Content Producers.
      Visit our library to browse our compelling catalog of content offerings from our growing assembly of diverse, content-producers.
      We invite you to join the people’s media company to share your knowledge and earn extra cash along the way. To get started, sign up today!
      For marketers, Associated Content represents a unique opportunity to tap into a unique, educated organic community of consumers, without risk. To request more information, click here."



      It's clear that the producers of the website failed to review the submitted article for accuracy. Fox wouldn't have had any reason not to believe the story.
    • radmarshallb, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1@jameshoban

      Except by, you know, reading it? Here are some select quotes from the article off of which FOX based their story.

      "It's extraordinarily hurtful and degrading. They probably felt like they were back in Mogadishu starving and being shot at. No child, Muslim or normal, should have to endure touching a ham sandwich."

      "All our students should feel welcome in our schools, knowing that they are safe from attacks with ham, bacon, porkchops, or any other delicious meat that comes from pigs."

      If you or Fox News or MSNBC or God himself can't tell that this is totally fake... you're all idiots.
    • Mnkymen, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3radmarshallb,

      You are a real idiot. Hey moron, the actual story is true. Students did put ham on the Somali students' table. The only thing that was not true in the story is that the school made up an anti ham response plan. That's it!!!! The rest did happen. Do all of you liberals have that much hatred inside of you that you are willing to let it blind you. How come there are so many stupid people??? THINK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
  • Junkyarddawg, on 10/12/2007, -19/+62Guess Who also swallowed this hook, line, and sinker?
    That's right.
    http://littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/?entry=25186_The_Ham_Steak_of_Hate&only
    http://digg.com/2008_us_elections/Ham_The_New_Hate_Crime
    http://proteinwisdom.com/index.php?/weblog/entry/22914/
    • thenativeraver, on 10/12/2007, -19/+37LGF?
      No wai!
      They think everything through and do research before they do anything!!!
      [/sarcasm]
    • leszek, on 10/12/2007, -15/+30Look at the comments, it is funny how they are so happy to be able to say bad things about mulisms.
      Or is it sad ?
    • plbland, on 10/12/2007, -13/+11Agreed

      I'm more concerned they they laugh the 'incident' off as if it's not even a slightly offensive thing to do.

    • wonderchemist, on 10/12/2007, -11/+4The Digg article doesn't have the word BREAKING in it, so it wasn't news per say.
    • andrew1193, on 10/12/2007, -4/+14The story itself is real, and none of those websites you mention are using the satirical quotes from Associated Content.
    • mortypoo, on 10/12/2007, -13/+4I think HotAir covered it as well....Malkin got punked.
    • chancefavors, on 10/12/2007, -3/+12@junkyarddawg:

      backing up what andrew said, there's nothing wrong with buying those reports "hook, line, and sinker" since they actually cover a real event (and don't refer to the fictitious quotations in the associated content article).
    • Lizardoid, on 10/12/2007, -4/+16you idiots. the story about the ham incident is true, and you're such morons you can't even distinguish between a parody and a factual story. lgf was accurate on this.

      pathetic.
    • SixJ, on 10/12/2007, -2/+16The ham story is true. Fox News got some of the details wrong. It doesn't invalidate the entire account.

      You need to pull harder on the wool. There are still too many eyes left uncovered.
    • ArcherB, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3This story is true, so I guess YOU are the one who bought this BS "Hook, Line, AND Sinker".

      Congratulations! You are at the level you THOUGHT LittleGreenFootballs was at. The sad part is that they are not idiots you said they were, but you are the gullible idiot instead.

      You are what you hate, and what you hate isn't what you thought it was.
  • toddcat, on 10/12/2007, -19/+3More than the fact that it's a parody, it's an offense to these kids' religious beliefs that is being parodied. FAUX....we're all fugged.
  • flernk, on 10/12/2007, -20/+6110 diggs in less than 5 hours and still not front-paged? WTF?
    • brstilson, on 10/12/2007, -10/+19Just got there. Looks like we beat the bury brigade. What's the matter guys? Don't like it when your precious propaganda machine shoves its foot up its ass/

      "we haven't been duped I looked it up uhhhh on a couple websites."

      I was expecting him to say "yeah.......that's the ticket."
    • appleann1, on 10/12/2007, -4/+13I'll tell you why it made front page FLERNK, because LGF readers don't spend their time burying the stories that come from "think progress and media matters" no matter how hateful, ignorant, and wrong they are. Take a lesson from us, GROW UP.
  • TangerineDream, on 10/12/2007, -18/+12Thank God for Fox News though. Without them, the Daily Show would not have any material
    • raindowg, on 10/12/2007, -12/+8Nonsense. They'd still have the current administration.
  • gtluke, on 10/12/2007, -4/+21what about the 200+ digg members who "dug" this article thinking it was real?
    come forward and admit it.
    http://digg.com/2008_us_elections/Ham_The_New_Hate_Crime
  • munen123, on 10/12/2007, -12/+4@TangerineDream

    "Thank God for Fox News though. Without them, the Daily Show would not have any material"

    Not true they have the bush administration to make fun off. As we all know there is so much crap coming out of gw and crew they will not be lacking material anytime soon....
  • Ferretman, on 10/12/2007, -26/+9I think you guys are trying to justify a righteous anger when, really, you just "didn't get it".

    Fox knew it was a parody...they were showing how silly the whole thing was.

    Steve
  • Wonkanobi, on 10/12/2007, -16/+5I wish Fox News would go the way of Mama Cass, and choke to death on a ham sandwich.
  • Maverick0420, on 10/12/2007, -14/+8I agree with ferretman.

    I cant wait for a Democrat to take the presidency so Daily Show will have to go back to making fun of Democrats like back in the day with Clinton.
  • sdlvx, on 10/12/2007, -18/+0HAHA this country is so *****. Bush isn't the problem, it is the fact this country is going to *****. The christians and the radical right have ***** everything up so bad that it's beyond fixing.

    The fact that things like this happen, is ludicrous. Fox news won't inform it's viewers they ***** up. They will just ignore it, and it will be accepted as fact. I blame this ENTIRELY on the fact that the christians and the radical right have worked so hard to keep science and math out of schools. Mathematics depends so much on your logical reasoning skills. It helps develop them. Without math, we have a bunch of morons in this country who can't figure ***** out on there own.

    So, you assholes can keep destroying the country, all of you. I'll be getting the ***** out of here, and moving to Canada. That is, unless the northeast grows some balls and gets the hell out of this quagmire of a country.
    • McJeff, on 10/12/2007, -2/+10The best thing that could happen to this country is to get the Northeast out of it.
  • SeaMowse, on 10/12/2007, -17/+4Another example of what Fox News is known as 'Faux' News. Fox doesn't know fact from fiction, and doesn't bother to correct themselves when they are wrong.
  • Anachronus, on 10/12/2007, -20/+13And this is different from the thinkprogress.com readers who get their news from Stewart and Colbert exactly how?

    • pintomp3, on 10/12/2007, -11/+17steward and colbert are on comedy central. they don't pretend to be actual news.
    • dagnabbit, on 10/12/2007, -15/+11Satire vs. completely false? Stewart makes fun of actual news. Plus it's a comedy show. Fox "reports" news that is patently false, and it's a news show! That is how it's different.
    • ArchieAndrews, on 10/12/2007, -9/+4This one is ***** and was reported as real giving normal people a chance to, once again, laugh at the far right's feverish desire to fear monger. Any other questions?

      Just out of curiosity, since you feel it is so similar, can you give me an example of a similar situation involving the folks you mentioned or do you simply discount anything that is not in line with your political viewpoint?
    • LucidOne, on 10/12/2007, -13/+7Stewart and Colbert TELL THE TRUTH, that's the difference! It's why their viewers are the most well informed people in the country! Faux news viewers are the least well informed, no surprise there!
    • 14Fevrier, on 10/12/2007, -8/+4anachronus,

      We get our laughs, not our news, from Stewart and Colbert. Because we can tell the difference between news and satire. This is not esoteric.
  • Barbarino, on 10/12/2007, -7/+12It would be nice if think progress held it's self to the same standard it holds others to. We are talking about a ham sandwich on a morning show. Soros, can't you buy better articles for think progress??
    • appleann1, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5Stewart and Colbert TELL THE TRUTH, that's the difference! It's why their viewers are the most well informed people in the country!"

      I'd be embarrassed to admit I got my news from a comedy show. But it does explain a lot.
  • Daedalus17, on 10/12/2007, -9/+4Okay its time to get off your high horse Digg. Satirical stories get to the front page almost weekly.
  • Sublime059, on 10/12/2007, -14/+7lol

    ***** Morons.

    Anyone defending fox news anymore are such losers. Doesn't get any worse than that.. oh wait, it does.
  • Hetman, on 10/12/2007, -8/+2I dont know much But i do know one thing because of digg i see the word commie like 100 times a day. This is kind of ridiculous because the last time I heard anyone say the word was my grandpa and he was talking about the Korean war. I
  • LucidOne, on 10/12/2007, -11/+5Faux news indeed!
  • thcobbs, on 10/12/2007, -8/+11The video stopped before the end of the segment. We don't know if they never corrected themselves for the error(like papers get to print retractions), or revealed it as a hoax.

    Typical Think progress taking ***** out of context.
  • trump48257, on 10/12/2007, -11/+4What, Fox News itself isn't a parody??? ARE YOU SERIOUS??? I just started watching thinking it was a spinoff network of the Colbert Report :)

    Wow. Seriously though this is kinda pathetic.
  • kaiser44, on 10/12/2007, -8/+16have we all forgotten about Dan Rather?
  • FLUX, on 10/12/2007, -13/+1who gives a *****

    WAA WAA WAA CRY BABIES
  • ishmal, on 10/12/2007, -11/+7I always love to read the postings from the Fox Fan Club on Digg and Reddit. The group of people who listen to every word spoken by the channel. The ones who keep a yellow pad by their Barco-lounger, for taking notes. Recording it on their DVR 24/7 in case they miss a "gotcha" moment.

    Why do people even care what is spoken on Fox? If you really hate it, leave it alone. Roger Ailes is trolling cable news, and people are falling for it. You are the target demographic. You are being played. The more venom you spit about it, the higher their ratings climb. They say things to make you get angry. To make you WATCH.

    Fox News is good for two things: car chases and remote reporting (which they can afford to do better than anyone else). For anything else, watch PBS, listen to NPR, or (horrors) read a newspaper. Better facts, fewer pseudo-analysts and no CNN-weepers.

    • kaiser44, on 10/12/2007, -6/+4pbs, npr, fox news, cbs, abc, nbc, msnbc, reuters, upi.
      They are all suspect, they play games with the news every day.
      All news services have a agenda, they are not without bias.
      Whether they are run by corporations or they are funded by the government they all have a group think and they adhere to it.

      The problem is they will not put out a disclaimer before you indulge in their product.
    • quisph, on 10/12/2007, -4/+4@KAISER44: "All news services have a agenda, they are not without bias."

      Everyone tells lies, too -- you do, I do, even "Honest" Abe Lincoln did. But I think that reasonable people would agree that liars like Stephen Glass, Milli Vanilli, and Baron Munchausen are in a separate category from us "normal" liars. Likewise, there are different degrees of bias in the news media, and you can't sweep it all under the rug by saying "everyone is biased."

      In any case, I think this story is more about incompetence than bias, although bias certainly plays into it.
  • norsurfit, on 10/12/2007, -10/+4I'm sure that fox will go out of it's way to correct the error, in its relentless pursuit of the truth.
  • Hetman, on 10/12/2007, -10/+4I know this article was fake.But if you do place ham knowingly in from of a muslim because you know its against his religion it is a hate crime. It would be the same if someone started pissing on a bible in front of you.
    • deesine, on 10/12/2007, -1/+10Something must be a crime before it is a hate-crime. Where's the crime, please explain?
    • semrocks, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Unless you call it "art" and get public funding to do it through the NEA...
  • bigspruce, on 10/12/2007, -12/+5Since when does Fox report "actual news", or anyone expect them to?
  • Barbarino, on 10/12/2007, -9/+7I can see a whole group of far left TP supporters all getting on digg and digging down anything anti TP or anyone who questions their far left non mainstream views....
    • amoirae, on 10/12/2007, -7/+1You live down to your television name sake.

      What an idiot you are.
  • BohicaTwentyTwo, on 10/12/2007, -6/+2They report, you deciede.
  • sdquirk, on 10/12/2007, -8/+3Dugg because I've met Steve Wessler from the Center for the Prevention of Hate Violence and I hate Fox News, especially this show.

    This is also a big deal because somebody rolled a pigs head in to a Mosque in Lewiston not that long ago. There's some speculation that the kid was copying that act.
  • nick415, on 10/12/2007, -6/+2oh dear god, that is amazing

    go journalism!
  • gtluke, on 10/12/2007, -11/+7why are the anti fox / anti conservatives on digg so vulger? you hardly ever see the reversal.
    you are like the kids stamping your feet in the sandbox
    YOU CAN'T PLAY IN MY SANDBOX, GET OUT AND I DIGG YOU DOWN
  • CannedMango, on 10/12/2007, -7/+5What this shows is that people put blind faith in the "news" to do the fact checking for them. Once something makes it onto network news, people just assume it's true. After all, how stupid would they look if they broadcast fake news and got caught.

    This is funny in this context, but downright scary when you think of the possible implications of the viewing audience simply believing what they're told. Unfortunately, people have been blindly following the news for a long, long time.
  • totorototoro, on 10/12/2007, -9/+3The Diggers defending Fox in this Digg are providing even greater entertainment than the original Digg :p
  • antoniojvr, on 10/12/2007, -14/+8Thinkprogress.. hmmm.. SPAM.
  • gthrank, on 10/12/2007, -9/+5Somewhere, Roger Ailes is looking at all the gullible idiots who watch Fox News, laughing. Buah hah hah hah hah haaah.
    • Spikito, on 10/12/2007, -8/+6its obvious to me that this was staged, if i had seen this live, i wouldnt have believed it. you see, fox is run by real people, they have souls and sometimes laugh and have fun. theyre not like some other un-named news companies who spend all day either probing the lives of celebrities or bashing Bush.
  • klpowell, on 10/12/2007, -4/+9Funny this is the same thing Media Matters does everyday. Just ask Glenn Beck how many times his satire has been taken out of context by that site.
  • gweezil, on 10/12/2007, -6/+2Wait, people actually think there is news on Fox News? Don't let the name of the channel fool you. The only news show on the whole channel is The Fox Report.

    The rest is all opinion shows and blabfests. Fox and Friends is below Today in terms of news quality.
  • culprit, on 10/12/2007, -6/+1What if they had been Jewish students? Oh oh ... where did the indignation go? (yea ... I know, this is Digg.com). Hey folks, it's Fox & Friends ... OK?
  • writerboyVSgod, on 10/12/2007, -8/+4I thought this whole administration was something out of the Onion... or maybe Weekly World News. "Idiot Son of Ex President is used as a puppet for psychotic vice president (who was the former president of the biggest war profiteering company in the world) after they fix two elections."

    Movie at 11.
  • Depthfunction, on 10/12/2007, -8/+4It seems to me that with a little bit of planning and effort, it wouldn't be too hard to trick Faux News into reporting on fake or satirical stories like this one. Considering how little fact checking goes into their new reporting--especially for sensationalist headlines like this--that it would be easy to trick them.
  • usercc, on 10/12/2007, -8/+4Well, I'm sure Fox News made the correction when they learned of the error. That doesn't happen in the MSM. If CBS, NBC, CNN. NTY, etc. runs a story, true or not, slamming conservatives, they never correct or retract anything. Actually, the MSM (e.g. Dan Rather) makes up stories and insists they are true even when proven not to be. To this day, CBS and Dan Rather claim that the story they made up about the president and natioal guard is true.
  • davebg8r, on 10/12/2007, -11/+6Buried for inaccurate and biased title.

    Because when Fox News makes it a mistake they are intentional and because Fox is evil. When CNN or others do something similar, they just made a mistake. You let them slide cause they reinforce your beliefs.
  • camilos, on 10/12/2007, -8/+5Conservative diggers! Unite and defend Fox!
    You have the power!


  • dwilson9725, on 10/12/2007, -8/+6I love fox news, at least they make an attempt at objectiveness. The truth is there is no news source out there that is totally unbiased. To find out whats really going on you need to pay attention to both the liberals and the conservatives version of the story and the truth will be somewhere in between 100% of the time.

    You can't believe everything you see on the news, hear on the radio, or read on the internet. Start using your head and and try to figure out whats really going on.
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