{"id":56940,"date":"2023-05-19T13:16:03","date_gmt":"2023-05-19T20:16:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=56940"},"modified":"2023-05-20T01:17:08","modified_gmt":"2023-05-20T08:17:08","slug":"fox-news-runs-fake-story-about-veterans-being-kicked-out-of-hotels-to-make-room-for-migrants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=56940","title":{"rendered":"Fox News Runs Fake Story About Veterans Being Kicked Out of Hotels to Make Room for Migrants"},"content":{"rendered":"

The discovery that Fox News aired a story that was wholly untrue and manufactured by dishonest partisans isn’t exactly a revelation. In fact, it is what they are best known for. Virtually every day there is a story on Fox News that contains only the scantest bits of reality, if even that.<\/p>\n

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Sometimes, though, even the audacity of Fox’s routine dishonesty exceeds bounds that make it necessary to give it some extra attention. At these times Fox demonstrates that their aversion to the truth is so deliberate and despicable that it can’t be swept into their standard trash heap of untruths.<\/p>\n

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Earlier this week the New York Post published a disturbing story about homeless veterans upstate who were allegedly kicked out of their hotel rooms to make way for migrants being bused in from Manhattan. Fox News picked up the story from the New York Post (both are owned by Rupert Murdoch), that was sourced to a local veterans advocate who claimed to have interviewed the displaced veterans. However, as reported by Mediaite<\/a><\/strong>…<\/p>\n

“…the hotels that veterans were supposedly booted from told Mid-Hudson News they had no idea what the advocate, YIT Foundation Executive Director Sharon Finch, was talking about.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Subsequent to the Mid-Hudson News<\/a><\/strong> disclosures a Republican state assemblyman confirmed that the story was false and got the source to admit that she made it up. It was further reported that several homeless men were offered cash, food, and alcohol to go along with the deception.<\/p>\n

In the meantime, the fictional story was spread by the likes of Donald Trump Jr. (who remarked “F**k Democrats”<\/em>) and Kevin McCarthy (who called it “shameful”<\/em>). Several Fox News programs amplified the fake news and, bizarrely, blamed it President Biden who, even if it were true, wouldn’t have had anything to do with the local affair.<\/p>\n

The New York Post has since updated their story, conceding that the advocate had lied. But no such correction, retraction, or apology has been provided by Fox News.<\/p>\n

Which is all the more galling since Fox News has been whining about the journalism awards that other news media have received for their accurate reporting on Donald Trump’s unsavory associations with Russia. This week Fox and Friends complained that the New York Times and the Washington Post have been honored for those stories that Fox says are lies.<\/p>\n

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The cast of the Fox & Friends complained about how other media companies won Pulitzer and Peabody awards. Fox News paid out the largest defamation settlement ever recorded for a media company at $787.5 million! Fox could top that number with Smartmatic! Dream Big Fox! pic.twitter.com\/IscyXQL3ul<\/a><\/p>\n

— Decoding Fox News (@DecodingFoxNews) May 19, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n