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As the post points out, the fake DPRK account has fooled other news sources including the Washington Post, Slate, Newsweek, and so on. Gotta get that Fox News b
by acheron 12y ago
As the post points out, the fake DPRK account has fooled other news sources including the Washington Post, Slate, Newsweek, and so on. Gotta get that Fox News bashing in though, eh?
- dannyr 12y agoSlate and Reuters are also mentioned in the post. Not just Fox News.
- delinka 12y agoWhere does ChuckMcM mention these?
- delinka 12y agoI read ChuckMcM as just using Fox as an example. Especially where he said "... like Fox ..."
- Zuider 12y agoI read him as referring only to Fox. It is one of the inherent ambiguities of English idiom that people will say 'like X' or 'such as X' when they have only X in mind. It is sometimes a source of humor as when an exclamation like "what would a man like Napoleon say?" is met by the rejoinder "Probably the same as what Napoleon himself would say". Furthermore, such rants are a typical response to any mention of Fox News, even though it does not appear to be worse than other mainstream media outlets, differing only in its political slant.
- ChuckMcM 12y agoFox is just the poster child for the decline of western journalism, and I call them out only because their early narrative 'we report you decide / fair and balanced' so clearly failed in the modern equivalent of cultured audiences that they abandoned it while using its still warm corpse as the entry point into establishing their brand. That said, when you read about the Fox response to the hoax being exposed to them, and the responses of the others mentioned, does that inform your opinion of their relative ranking? Getting out in front a hoax is pretty doable, but it does start with admitting you were fooled.
- MaysonL 12y agoContrast Fox/Gretawire's response (deleting her tweet) to Newsweek's (interviewing the parody account's authors).