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They are known for being inflammatory and wildly inaccurate. Fox News has a tendency (or some of their pundits) to take an incorrect technical view and run with

They are known for being inflammatory and wildly inaccurate. Fox News has a tendency (or some of their pundits) to take an incorrect technical view and run with it in a totally insane direction. Example: Glenn Beck and a guest going on at great length about how the "Cash For Clunkers" program's website allowed the gov't to tap into your computer and seize all of your computer files, and install a "tracking cookie" that let them "tap into your system at any time in the future." They failed to mention that the scary EULA this nonsense was based on was only for participating dealer employees to access, and not something that the general public could even find if they wanted to.

cema 17y ago
Yes, Fox is known for being inflammatory. However, all mainstream general-purpose media sources are known to be very inaccurate. (I say "general" because reports by subject-oriented media are usually done with a higher degree of accuracy and by people who understand the subject matter better than an average person, or an average journalist.) So, take them all with a grain of salt. And do not let your political, religious and other biases affect your judgment. Okay? :-)
DanielBMarkham 17y ago
I'm sorry, you passsed my "who cares?" limit after the first few words. Sources vary. Some media outlets have different standards than others. Like everything else, don't stereotype! By impeaching an entire news organization -- it's just idiotic. I'm sure somewhere there's a good Fox news reporter writing a good story. So let the stories stand on their own merits instead of trying to convince people not to listen to anything anybody from place "X" has to say. That's simple-minded. This is just simple logic. I'm reminded of the fact that the National Enquirer broke every major news story about John Edward's love child. Each time they were trashed by the mainstream press -- if I remember correctly, the first story hung out for weeks while nobody else would touch it and the Edwards' campaign mocked it -- but each time their story turned out to be totally accurate. And these are the guys who run "Elvis visited me in a UFO" stuff. I'm not saying I like that kind of story, but it proves the point that impeaching entire news organizations is idiotic at best.

cema 17y ago

Yes, Fox is known for being inflammatory. However, all mainstream general-purpose media sources are known to be very inaccurate. (I say "general" because reports by subject-oriented media are usually done with a higher degree of accuracy and by people who understand the subject matter better than an average person, or an average journalist.) So, take them all with a grain of salt. And do not let your political, religious and other biases affect your judgment. Okay? :-)

DanielBMarkham 17y ago

I'm sorry, you passsed my "who cares?" limit after the first few words. Sources vary. Some media outlets have different standards than others. Like everything else, don't stereotype! By impeaching an entire news organization -- it's just idiotic. I'm sure somewhere there's a good Fox news reporter writing a good story. So let the stories stand on their own merits instead of trying to convince people not to listen to anything anybody from place "X" has to say. That's simple-minded. This is just simple logic. I'm reminded of the fact that the National Enquirer broke every major news story about John Edward's love child. Each time they were trashed by the mainstream press -- if I remember correctly, the first story hung out for weeks while nobody else would touch it and the Edwards' campaign mocked it -- but each time their story turned out to be totally accurate. And these are the guys who run "Elvis visited me in a UFO" stuff. I'm not saying I like that kind of story, but it proves the point that impeaching entire news organizations is idiotic at best.