{"id":7250,"date":"2012-06-06T14:49:21","date_gmt":"2012-06-06T21:49:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=7250"},"modified":"2012-06-06T14:49:21","modified_gmt":"2012-06-06T21:49:21","slug":"a-pictorial-history-of-gas-prices-as-presented-by-fox-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=7250","title":{"rendered":"A Pictorial History Of Gas Prices As Presented By Fox News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For most of the first half of this year Fox News has relentlessly lambasted President Obama for rising gas prices. The narrative from Fox was that the increase was entirely the fault of the President, despite the fact that <a href=\"http:\/\/mediamatters.org\/blog\/201202230006\" target=\"_blank\">experts attributed the rise<\/a> to lower international demand, political volatility in the Middle East, and other strictly market-based events.<\/p>\n<p>Now that gas prices have fallen significantly, failing to reach the outrageous predictions of Fox News analysts, Fox has largely ignored the issue. So it seems like a good time to offer a quick pictorial reminder of how Fox frames their brazenly biased reporting.<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/Pix\/Charts\/foxnews-gas-price.jpg\" alt=\"Fox News Gas Prices\" \/><\/center><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<p>Dishonest as always, Fox News is feverishly striving to demonize Obama and canonize Romney. If Fox continues to act as a surrogate for the GOP they should lose their broadcast license. They are not a news enterprise, they are the the PR arm of the Republican Party.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For most of the first half of this year Fox News has relentlessly lambasted President Obama for rising gas prices. The narrative from Fox was that the increase was entirely the fault of the President, despite the fact that experts attributed the rise to lower international demand, political volatility in the Middle East, and other [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[33,961],"class_list":["post-7250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-fox-news","tag-infographic"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Ijg-1SW","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":6446,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=6446","url_meta":{"origin":7250,"position":0},"title":"Fox Nation vs. Reality: The Gas Price Myth","author":"Mark NC","date":"2\/17\/2012","format":false,"excerpt":"Fox Nation has joined Fox News and most of the right-wing noise machine in attempting to slow President's Obama's increasing popularity due to the recent trends in the improving economic and employment numbers. They have settled on the issue of rising gas prices as a means of disrupting the President's\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Economy&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Economy","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?cat=219"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":953,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=953","url_meta":{"origin":7250,"position":1},"title":"The Fox Frame: Seven Dollar Gas","author":"Mark NC","date":"6\/22\/2008","format":false,"excerpt":"To the surprise of no one, Fox News has been promoting the notion that the rise in gas prices is the fault of Democrats. 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On Obama's personal favorability, Fox finds him doing\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Election&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Election","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?cat=152"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":6671,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=6671","url_meta":{"origin":7250,"position":3},"title":"The Fox Nation Is Suffering Full Blown Obama Derangement Syndrome","author":"Mark NC","date":"3\/16\/2012","format":false,"excerpt":"In my ongoing series \"Fox Nation vs. Reality\" I have endeavored to expose some of the more brazen departures from truthful reporting that so often make their way onto the pages of the Fox Nation web site. But today the Fox Nationalists have ventured beyond even their typical separation from\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Election&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Election","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?cat=152"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":9089,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=9089","url_meta":{"origin":7250,"position":4},"title":"Fox Nation vs. Reality: Record High Gas Prices Far Below Actual High","author":"Mark NC","date":"2\/12\/2013","format":false,"excerpt":"Be sure to read the book that Wonkette calls \"A valuable contribution to the effort to chip away at Bullshit Mountain.\"Fox Nation vs. RealityPerhaps the single biggest driver of economic activity among commodities is the price of gas. 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