{"id":8512,"date":"2012-11-25T15:03:56","date_gmt":"2012-11-25T23:03:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=8512"},"modified":"2012-11-25T15:03:56","modified_gmt":"2012-11-25T23:03:56","slug":"fox-nation-vs-reality-the-case-of-the-imaginary-regulations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=8512","title":{"rendered":"Fox Nation vs. Reality: The Case Of The Imaginary Regulations"},"content":{"rendered":"

When Fox Nation needs to disseminate some fictional talking points, they turn to disreputable blogs like Hotair.com for new material. That’s what they did this weekend when the Fox Nationalists posted this fallacious item about 80 regulations that were supposed to have been proposed by the Obama administration in a single day:<\/p>\n

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As usual, the headline, and the underlying article, are not even remotely true. The article links to the web site Regulations.gov<\/a>, and specifically to a page where there were indeed 80 items listed. Unfortunately for the credibility of Fox News, they were not 80 regulations. Most of the items were simply notices of comment periods where the public could have a say in the administration of their government agencies. Some were requests to collect additional information. There were announcements of appointments to performance review boards. Here is one of my favorite items on the list: “Meetings: National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism.”<\/em> That was merely the publication of a meeting date.<\/p>\n

The magnitude of ignorance required for somebody to construe this list as being entirely comprised of proposed regulations is stunning. But here we have both the Hotair blog and Fox Nation doing just that. They would only have to have read a few lines to know that, while these items had some relation to regulations previous and pending, they were not regulations themselves.<\/p>\n

It’s one thing for some dippy blog to misconstrue something so obvious, but a legitimate news enterprise should check before regurgitating their stupidity. That, of course, explains why Fox News didn’t check – it’s not even marginally legitimate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When Fox Nation needs to disseminate some fictional talking points, they turn to disreputable blogs like Hotair.com for new material. That’s what they did this weekend when the Fox Nationalists posted this fallacious item about 80 regulations that were supposed to have been proposed by the Obama administration in a single day: As usual, the […]<\/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":true,"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":[],"class_list":["post-8512","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Ijg-2di","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5366,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=5366","url_meta":{"origin":8512,"position":0},"title":"The GOP Agenda Becomes Fox News Programming","author":"Mark NC","date":"9\/7\/2011","format":false,"excerpt":"Long ago it was established that Fox News is not a legitimate journalistic enterprise. 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