{"id":10651,"date":"2013-10-03T11:03:49","date_gmt":"2013-10-03T18:03:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=10651"},"modified":"2013-10-03T11:03:49","modified_gmt":"2013-10-03T18:03:49","slug":"journalistic-malpractice-a-forensic-analysis-of-a-fox-news-lie-about-obamacare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=10651","title":{"rendered":"Journalistic Malpractice: A Forensic Analysis Of A Fox News Lie About ObamaCare"},"content":{"rendered":"

As the country is mired in an unnecessary financial crisis courtesy<\/a> of the Republican Tea Party establishment, Fox News is continuing to do its part in disseminating false information and right-wing propaganda.<\/p>\n

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Yesterday’s Special Report with Bret Baier featured reporting by Fox News Chief National Correspondent, Jim Angle, on the harried first day of access to the health insurance exchanges created by the Affordable Care Act (aka ObamaCare). Angle presented an error-ridden account of the new law’s benefits and grossly misrepresented the facts. The core conclusion that he built up to was embarrassingly inept, untrue, and biased.<\/p>\n

Angle:<\/strong> Without subsidies, many will be paying more than they would now. Not only that, we’re now learning what the wide range of deductibles will be, in addition to widespread reports of large increases in premiums, especially for the young. Those buying even the least expensive plan under ObamaCare will have a large deductible to pay before getting any insurance coverage.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Let’s dissect Angle’s remarks in detail to see the depth of his dishonesty:<\/p>\n

“Without subsidies, many will be paying more than they would now.”<\/strong> Of course they will. That’s why ObamaCare included the subsidies in the first place. It is absurd to report the cost of the unsubsidized premiums that few if any Americans will pay. It’s sort of like advertising the sticker price of a new $30,000 car when every dealer in the country is selling it for $23,000 due to manufacturer incentives.<\/p>\n

“…in addition to widespread reports of large increases in premiums…”<\/strong> Angle never documents the alleged reports of premium increases, nor what he regards as “widespread.”<\/em> In all likelihood, he is referring to his own false reporting that omits the subsidies.<\/p>\n

“Those buying even the least expensive plan under ObamaCare will have a large deductible to pay before getting any insurance coverage.”<\/strong> No kidding! This is the most ignorant part of Angle’s report. The least expensive plans are always the ones with the highest deductibles. Angle is spinning this as a flaw in the system when, in fact, it’s precisely how the insurance actuaries devised it from the earliest days of insurance. It’s a trade off between cost and risk. The more risk you’re willing to assume, the less you have to pay. The more you pay, the less your exposure to risk. Do you think Angle doesn’t know this?<\/p>\n

The blatantly biased misrepresentations in Angle’s report are certainly nothing new for Fox News. At the same time that they are broadcasting Angle’s mutilation of the truth, they are spinning the government shutdown as a “slimdown,”<\/em><\/a> as if it were diet program that will make us all deliciously svelte. And this isn’t the first time that Angle has lied openly in his reporting either.<\/p>\n

Angle did a story last month about a man and his family in Kentucky that he said would suffer a tripling of their insurance premium. But Angle left out<\/a> a couple of pertinent facts: 1) That subsidies available under ObamaCare could reduce the premium to an amount lower than the family currently pays. And 2) That the man in the report is the vice-president of the Association of Mature American Citizens, a conservative alternative to the AARP and an adamant opponent of ObamaCare.<\/p>\n

That second fact is a wholly unethical failure of journalistic standards of disclosure. Surely an executive working for an anti-ObamaCare organization is going to have a built-in prejudice and an incentive to negatively portray the law. His occupation is a salient fact that any reputable reporter would mention. Angle certainly knew the man’s identity and his professional affiliation, but he deceitfully withheld that information from the audience.<\/p>\n

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All of this adds up to journalistic malpractice on an Olympian scale. No news enterprise with an ounce of credibility would permit this sort of obfuscation and deception. Which is, of course, why Fox News not only permits it, they encourage it. And it is why Fox News viewers are so often proven to be more ill-informed than even people who watch no news at all. This is not an accident. It is the mission of Fox News to create as many idiots as possible, who will vote against their own interests and enhance the power and wealth of the upper-crusty corporatists who exploit them.<\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As the country is mired in an unnecessary financial crisis courtesy of the Republican Tea Party establishment, Fox News is continuing to do its part in disseminating false information and right-wing propaganda. 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