highwaystar101 said:
Is that really a screen capture from Fox? That's terrible if it is. And if these are genuine mistakes, then they're terrible journalists. Still, some mistakes may be genuine, but I'm convinced that the make a lot of these "mistakes" on purpose. One example of a mistake that I thought could have only been done on purpose was in a Bill O'Reilly interview with Richard Dawkins, during which Bill O'Reilly insisted on calling Richard Dawkins "Mr Dawkins" whenever he used his name, which he seemed to use in every other sentence. I think just about everyone who knows who Richard Dawkins is knows that he goes by either "Professor Dawkins" or "Dr Dawkins", heck, even Calling him "Richard" or just "Dawkins" would have been fine. I find it incredibly hard to believe that O'Reilly, a man who must know who Richard Dawkins is fairly well, would make the mistake of calling him Mr Dawkins and then repeat his mistake over and over again. I think it's more likely that he called him "Mr Dawkins" to try and distort how the viewers see him. |
Haha yeah. The thing with that Screencap is that he was a Holocaust survivor... and he won a Nobel Prize. So for some reason they combined them together to be "Holocaust Winner.".
I wouldn't say calling him "Mr Dawkins" is a mistake. Disrespectful? Probably, I dunno... he seems to call a lot of people Mister, I think... I dunno I've never actually seen his show. Not sure if it's just the people he doesn't like or everyone. I'd never expect anyone to call him a proffessor though. It'd end up more misleading then "mr." because he's usually talking about stuff that isn't in relation to his degree.
Shit like O'Reily are supposed to be like that though. It's the same on CNN and MSNBC. Anything after 6pm is specifically "Opinion programming" or whatever the name of it is. They aren't actually journalists or anything. They're opinion columnists on news networks.
Graphic errors happen everywhere too, it's the nature of 24/7 news. You've got to keep in mind... with 24/7 news you are basically reporting on shit as soon as it happens... and you need graphics. The wrong footage is less defensible, but considering it's likely the same media team that's trying to make all these graphics, it's not that unlikely they would screw up like that.
This stuff happens everywhere, it may happen more on Fox, but I've never seen anyone actually do any credible research on it, because any research focusing on news networks tend to be hack jobs.
I tend to stick to CNN because they usually seem the least biased, though lean a little left. Though with their main guy being replaced by the HLN news guy... it's not sounding good.
