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- alapoet, on 07/02/2008, -7/+69"Fox News Fact Writer"...
Man, that must be a cushy gig. Spend all day doing nothing... - SheilaNoya, on 07/02/2008, -7/+53It looks like Rupert Murdoch is also inventing his own "facts" for the Wall Street Journal now too.
When Murdoch recently bought the paper, he promised that he wasn't going to turn it into a Republican smear machine like he did with Fox News. However, it's now filled with OpEd hit pieces on Obama and he lets people lke Bill Kristol and Karl Rove write articles using their own manufactured "facts" that have been proven false on a consistent basis. - nahsrocketeer75, on 07/02/2008, -4/+31Because non-FOX-written facts have a well-known liberal bias.
- psker, on 07/02/2008, -4/+30FACT: Fox News Blows
- SheilaNoya, on 07/02/2008, -1/+25The "Question Writer" job at Fox News requires some work though. They have to come up with daily screen titles that smear Obama, like:
- Is Obama really a Muslim pretending to be a Christian?
- Will Obama confiscate your guns and force you to have an abortion?
- If Obama wins, will Americans be forced to convert to Islam?
etc.
They don't actually "lie" in these cases, they just plant the "scare tactic" in your head and make you "assume" it's true. - inactive, on 07/02/2008, -4/+26I occasionally write a fact or two myself. But only if it's a good occasion.
- ARupp, on 07/02/2008, -7/+26Only Fox News...
- inactive, on 07/03/2008, -1/+16FACT: Fox News has done more damage to our country than any number of airplanes flying into buildings.
- rawg, on 07/02/2008, -4/+17fact writer != fact checker
- inactive, on 07/02/2008, -0/+11Whoa...
...you have a book? - BrentDPayne, on 07/02/2008, -2/+12Hmmm. I thought that was the job of the media was to state the facts. I know times are tough and all . . . but really!! ;-)
- Ridgeliner7, on 07/02/2008, -6/+16According to the listing posted on the Fox website, "Responsibilities include writing on-air facts and press conference quotes for daytime programming."
The job listing has hit the blogosphere with several sites poking fun at the network.
Fox's Diana Rocco says in a e-mail that Fox News Channel pioneered factoids at the bottom of the screen years ago.
"This fact writer position is for that purpose," she writes."The factoids are the details and facts that pop on screen to explain stories." - evilgourmet, on 07/02/2008, -7/+16there is first time for everything.
- BrentDPayne, on 07/02/2008, -0/+8ColonelTribune . . .
As long as you continue to wear the paper hat . . . you're good in my book. - SheilaNoya, on 07/02/2008, -1/+8True, it's always been slanted, but now it's not even slightly credible in many cases.
- inactive, on 07/03/2008, -3/+10They had to fire the last one for writing the 'terrorist fist bump' fact.
- t0x2c, on 07/03/2008, -0/+7Filled with facts actually.
- inactive, on 07/02/2008, -4/+10Fox News destroying families one false pro war segment at a time.
- colleenmcmahon, on 07/02/2008, -1/+7I like the WSJ, but I've always had a policy to skip the OpEd. It's always been slanted.
- inactive, on 07/03/2008, -4/+10You'd think after being verified as a fake news/propaganda channel, Murdoch would reconsider what fox reports on .....but no....they continue on ***** everyone.
- BoneheadFarker, on 07/03/2008, -2/+8Right. Both sides of the story...
"Congratulatory fist bump" or "Terrorist fist jab"? YOU decide. - YodaJones, on 07/03/2008, -3/+9I volunteer to write their first fact for free: Fox news feeds stupid people the stuff they like to hear.
- PHiZ187, on 07/03/2008, -2/+8No, it presents one side of the story, the conservative republican side. And it does it in a cheap and demeaning way that causes everyone to lose respect for news organizations, engage in a race to the bottom (watch CNN try to ape FoxNews), and results in a less informed electorate which is ultimately a threat to our democracy.
Anyone that showcases Ann Coulter and Laura Ingrahm is not a neutral or reputable news source. - MnMs, on 07/03/2008, -2/+7You must have a Bachelors of Science in Truthology to qualify for this job
- boydrew, on 07/03/2008, -2/+7The liberal media is saying bad things about Bush? we must balance this....what good thing has Bush done...........WHAT?!? nothing!?!....hmm, fact writer!
- MJG2007, on 07/03/2008, -2/+7Do they call that office the "Ministry of Truth"?
- omnithought, on 07/03/2008, -3/+8well, since they've been paying people to make ***** up for years, they may as well make it official.
- cadmiumpaint, on 07/03/2008, -3/+8everyone knows that Fox news pulls its material out of its ass. Now its looking for toilet paper.
- tenio, on 07/03/2008, -3/+8You know a company (fox) is really bad when even main stream consumers understand that the company (fox) is biased.
I was in a doctor's waiting room, someone changed the channel to fox news, immediately other people in the room started telling him: "Change the channel", "I don't want this biased crap" - KazamaSmokers, on 07/03/2008, -2/+6Dude... you're being bent over and used. You know that, don't you?
- dtd00d, on 07/03/2008, -5/+91984?
- CrimsonBlur, on 07/03/2008, -1/+5"This fact writer position is for that purpose," she writes."The factoids are the details and facts that pop on screen to explain stories." This is one thing that is so wrong about news these days - why the hell should we need "factoids" popping up on the screen to explain stories? It makes no sense, if the facts aren't being presented by the person on the screen, they aren't doing their job.
Newscasters are now far from journalists as it is, but now they can't even present all of the facts of a story without text popping up all over the place, it's absurd. - DavidinBoston, on 07/03/2008, -1/+5"...facts" that pop on screen to "explain" stories
= propaganda that pops on screen to spin stories. - flailking, on 07/03/2008, -1/+5Just making sure that everybody has this link http://newshounds.us
They watch Fox so we don't have to. - FullmetalGinta, on 07/03/2008, -1/+5Looks like your a fact writer
- tiktock, on 07/03/2008, -1/+4Facts won't just write themselves you know.
- mogebier, on 07/03/2008, -0/+3Woah, I think someone needs to switch to decaf.
- twiztidsinz, on 07/03/2008, -0/+3Obviously not at Faux news
- malex, on 07/03/2008, -1/+4Hey, your pharmacist called. He says the label is supposed to say TWO pills every TWELVE hours.
- Murrabbit, on 07/03/2008, -2/+5Shouldn't that be fact checker, or researcher or um journalist? Oh right, Fox News has no use for any of those positions.
- cesig, on 07/03/2008, -0/+3"Factoid: something resembling a fact; unverified (often invented) information that is given credibility because it appeared in print"
Sounds pretty much like a Fox news position to me.
http://wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=factoid - cesig, on 07/03/2008, -0/+3Left leaning? Seriously?
The media are all owned by corporations who have only one goal: make money. They can do so more easily by not pissing off the people who are able to bring the pain in the form of regulations, fines, etc. So, they are always conservative in their news broadcasting (not necessarily right-leaning, per se) because they run less of a risk of pissing off the ruling party, not to mention the advertisers or the viewers.
Fox news is a *specially* special case because I think they are intentionally neo-con. Ingratiating themselves with the neo-cons potentially nets them a benefit. They play to a specific demographic because they think they can benefit the most from it. And the religious conservatives that they aim at are loud and pushy, and fight to get what they want. And as a result, Fox news gets viewers, advertising dollars, and a viewership they can manipulate into helping the channel itself.
When people say Fox news is biased, they're talking about the whole damn channel and everything presented on it. From the little "factoids" falsely labeling a republican in a gay sex scandal as a democrat FOUR TIMES, to the blowhards yelling at their guests about how immigrants are dangerous and all lawbreakers and drunks, to the dumb blondes wondering if some gesture from a democratic presidential candidate is or is not "a terrorist fist jab."
So having said all that...all the distortions and falsehoods presented during their regular news broadcasts are what...? - KINGGS, on 07/03/2008, -0/+3You weren't going to say anything?
- digitalpencil, on 07/03/2008, -2/+5seriously, how exactly do you people get out of bed in the morning without hurting yourselves? it baffles me to no end...
- Fordi, on 07/03/2008, -2/+5There is reporting facts, there is 'spin', there is stretching the truth, and then, there is Fox News.
- inactive, on 07/03/2008, -2/+4There's always one...
- inactive, on 07/03/2008, -2/+4i always wondered where they get their ***** facts
they just make them up.. no wonder - Xihix, on 07/03/2008, -3/+5To be fair, it's the neoconservative side... As a conservative, I find it offensive to be associated with Fox News.
- BillDoor, on 07/03/2008, -0/+2Now had they have advertised for a "fact checker", that would be news.
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