{"id":4064,"date":"2011-03-15T01:42:08","date_gmt":"2011-03-15T08:42:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=4064"},"modified":"2011-03-15T01:42:08","modified_gmt":"2011-03-15T08:42:08","slug":"the-fox-follies-march-14-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=4064","title":{"rendered":"The Fox Follies: March 14, 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"

When Fox News isn’t bastardizing the truth or shilling for right-wing billionaires and Tea Baggers, they can be surprisingly entertaining – if you find gross ignorance and deception funny. For instance…<\/p>\n

Fox News is already intimately associated with at least one delusional conspiracy theorist and fear monger (Glenn Beck). Now Fox Nation is advancing to the next level by promoting news obtained from Super Conspiracator Alex Jones (who thinks Beck has been ripping off his shtick anyway):<\/p>\n

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By the way, despite the foreboding headline, the article merely speculates as to the risk of fallout reaching California with experts saying that they regard it as unlikely. But why should that stop the Fox Nationalists from bluntly asserting that we are in the path of radioactive fallout?<\/p>\n

A few weeks ago Rachel Maddow was lured in<\/a> by a satirical article that she mentioned briefly in an eight minute segment. She discovered the error and owned up to it the same day. Still, Fox Nation ridiculed her with a featured story. Today Fox Nation posted an item about Islamic objections to padded bras. Guess what?<\/p>\n

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It’s as fake as they come. It was the work of a Pakistani version of The Onion. Did Fox Nation then follow up by ridiculing themselves? Did they even own up to the mistake? Nope. They just scrubbed the story and pretended it never happened, creating innumerable broken links by gullible FoxPods on Facebook. (Here’s the Google cache<\/a>). <\/p>\n

And my favorite:<\/p>\n

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Fox News displayed this graphic in a report on Japan’s nuclear power facilities. The problem is that there is no reactor in “Shibuyaeggman.”<\/em> In fact, there is no Shibuyaeggman. Now that would be bad enough, but Media Matters investigated further<\/a> and discovered that “Eggman is the name of a dance club in a trendy neighborhood of Tokyo called… Shibuya.”<\/em> So unless there’s a reactor under the dance floor somebody has seriously violated Fox’s “Zero Tolerance”<\/a> policy?<\/p>\n

Finally, I find it interesting that Fox Nation has removed their “Search”<\/em> box. They used to have one in case somebody wanted to find something on their web site. Now it’s gone. I think it’s because enabling research is contrary to the Fox mission of preserving ignorance. Either that or they don’t want to help people find evidence of prior mistakes they neglected to delete.<\/p>\n

Shibuyaeggman everybody.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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