{"id":24470,"date":"2015-01-12T19:40:04","date_gmt":"2015-01-13T03:40:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=24470"},"modified":"2015-01-12T21:42:40","modified_gmt":"2015-01-13T05:42:40","slug":"foxnewsfacts-new-hashtag-addresses-old-problem-of-fox-news-aversion-to-the-truth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=24470","title":{"rendered":"#FoxNewsFacts? New Hashtag Addresses Old Problem Of Fox News Aversion To The Truth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This weekend Jeanine Pirro of Fox News invited the in-house Fox <em>&#8220;terrorism expert&#8221;<\/em> Steven Emerson to explain the impending apocalypse that is looming over the planet due to radical Islamic terrorism spreading to every nook and cranny of the globe. Emerson warned that the crisis is so severe that murderous Muslims have already taken over some Western cities.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Emerson:<\/strong> In Britain, it\u2019s not just no-go zones, there are actual cities like Birmingham that are totally Muslim where non-Muslims just simply don\u2019t go in.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It didn&#8217;t take long for that morsel of fear mongering to be shot down as utterly false. Later in the day Emerson himself apologized profusely for his <em>&#8220;terrible error,&#8221;<\/em> however, neither Pirro nor Fox News has issued a retraction. Consequently, Fox News viewers will remain profoundly misinformed, as usual.<\/p>\n<p>The Internet, though, has a certain self-healing capability that tends to just this sort of dishonesty. Before long the hashtag <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/FoxNewsFacts\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;#FoxNewsFacts&#8221;<\/a> was trending on Twitter with a barrage of both serious and satirical posts asserting a sort of cyber karma.<\/p>\n<p>While it is gratifying to see people taking it upon themselves to set the record straight, the credibility of the facts on Fox News has been non-existent for years. There have so many examples of the network&#8217;s outright disregard for the truth that I wrote a book (<a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/UPoI6a\" target=\"_blank\">Fox Nation vs. Reality: The Fox News Community&#8217;s Assault on Truth<\/a>) compiling some of the worst episodes. In fact, Fox&#8217;s fib factory was so productive that I have just released the second volume of the book:<\/p>\n<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B00QSSMOES\/ref=as_li_tl? ie=UTF8&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;creativeASIN=B00QSSMOES&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;tag=newscorpsecom-20&#038;linkId=TLI6JC2OYE22MUTS\" target=\"_blank\">Fox Nation vs. Reality: The Fox News Cult of Ignorance.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/Pix\/Advs\/FNvR-book-Vol2-550x300.jpg\" alt=\"Fox Nation vs. Reality\" width=\"550\" height=\"300\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-23743\" \/><\/a><\/h3>\n<p>The book contains more than 50 examples of deliberate falsehoods and blatant propaganda. It&#8217;s available now on Amazon and every purchase helps to support the work we do at News Corpse.<\/p>\n<p>The pathological liars at Fox have been particularly busy disseminating disinformation in this aborning new year. In addition to providing a platform for bona fide Islamophobes like Emerson, they have <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=24443\" target=\"_blank\">launched an assault<\/a> on President Obama for not jetting off to Paris to march in a photo op with some other world leaders who Fox usually hate. And today they waxed panicky about what they called a hack into Pentagon computers that was really just a hack into Twitter and YouTube. No government network was accessed, but Fox spent most of the day ruminating on it. It&#8217;s what they do.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/Pix\/FoxNews\/foxnews-pentagon-hack.jpg\" alt=\"Fox News Pentagon Hack\" width=\"550\" height=\"298\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-24476\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This weekend Jeanine Pirro of Fox News invited the in-house Fox &#8220;terrorism expert&#8221; Steven Emerson to explain the impending apocalypse that is looming over the planet due to radical Islamic terrorism spreading to every nook and cranny of the globe. Emerson warned that the crisis is so severe that murderous Muslims have already taken over [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23743,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"#FoxNewsFacts? 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