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Sqrl on 25 January 2008
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Kasz216 said:
tarheel91 said:
As some people have said before me, it's not like Fox is the only news source that does this. While it doesn't excuse what they did, I do think people are being overly harsh. All the major sources do that sort of thing. Most people here have less of an issue with those because they cater to their personal world view. The same "people who watch Fox do so because it says what they want to hear" can be said of people watching CNN, MSNBC, and others.


Nah, people have more of an issue with Fox News because they do it more often. In just about every story. They just don't know how to fact check.

But it's like they say in the Newspapers. Inaccuracies on page 1. retractions on pace 23E.


ex·ag·ger·ate [ig-zaj-uh-reyt] Pronunciation Key verb, -at·ed, -at·ing. –verb (used with object)

1.to magnify beyond the limits of truth; overstate; represent disproportionately: to exaggerate the difficulties of a situation.
2.to increase or enlarge abnormally: Those shoes exaggerate the size of my feet.
–verb (used without object)
3.

to employ exaggeration, as in speech or writing: a person who is always exaggerating.

 

Ironically, I actually agree that fox has a lot of issues with its reporting. But what I disagree with is the assertion that it is any worse than any other station out there. The same is true of their slanted reporting. And despite your previous post which said for me to believe so I would have to be a "really really conservative republican"..I'm simply not. I'm an independant or at least that is what every internet test tells me. That and the fact that my mom still gives me a nasty look when we discuss politics (she actually is a really really conservative republican).

The fact is that nobody gets reliable news despite what they like to tell themselves. Everyone likes to think "Oh well the news that I get is unbiased and awesome...its all those other saps being lied to and propagandised." Well guess what? We all are, including YOU. It comes from everywhere. I don't care where you go, what you read, or what you watch. The fact is that you are going to be getting biased news and information, produced and written by people who make tons of mistakes on a daily basis. Thats humanity, we slant things to our views and we make mistakes, you take a microscope to any person or organisation and you are gonna find things that make you sick, there isn't a single news outlett thats been around more than a week that doesn't have at least 5 dirty scandals that we know about...and probably another 50 we don't know about...yet. But just like high school someone always get singled out...people really don't change at all...we just pick new outlets for our anger and immaturity.

That pretty much sums up why I find this whole thing amusing. And just to say it again, I'm happy about EA's move, they did the right thing and were absolutely justified imo.



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