{"id":24736,"date":"2015-01-22T19:50:30","date_gmt":"2015-01-23T03:50:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=24736"},"modified":"2015-02-03T09:10:47","modified_gmt":"2015-02-03T17:10:47","slug":"high-schoolers-scorch-bill-oreillyfox-news-for-lack-of-journalistic-ethics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=24736","title":{"rendered":"High Schoolers Scorch Bill O’Reilly\/Fox News For Lack Of Journalistic Ethics"},"content":{"rendered":"

[Update 2\/2\/2015: Fox News has responded to the students’ video<\/a>]<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Fox News has been proven repeatedly to be a purveyor of disinformation and outright lies presented as facts. Knowledgeable observers long ago ceased to take their reporting seriously. However, it’s one thing to be called out for shoddy journalism by experienced media analysts and news professionals. But when a high school class can demolish the highest rated cable “news”<\/em> network with ease, the folks responsible should reconsider their career choices.<\/p>\n

\"Fox<\/p>\n

Last July O’Reilly sent his stalker\/producer Jesse Watters to Bennington, Vermont in order to malign the residents of the city and the state as liberal, pot smoking, ski bums. It was a purely vicious exercise in childish insults that had no news value of any kind. But it is the sort of mean-spirited filler that Watters has made his specialty. Watters is also the founder and editor of Fox’s community website, Fox Nation, mangling the truth<\/a> is the primary objective. [Note: don’t miss this epic and hilarious take down of Watters by Stephen Colbert<\/a>]<\/em><\/p>\n

The students at Mount Anthony Union High School in Bennington happened to be studying journalism when they came upon this piece. So they used it as a case study to conduct a “professional integrity audit”<\/em> based on the ethics codes<\/a> of the Society of Professional Journalists. What they discovered was that O’Reilly’s program violated the ethics codes so many times they lost count.<\/p>\n

The video produced by the students systematically took apart the Watters segment revealing O’Reilly, Watters, and Fox News to be blatant propagandists with no regard for journalistic integrity. In one short segment they found examples of stereotyping, distortions, manipulation, questionable sourcing, and predetermining outcome.<\/p>\n