For
liberals, it’s not exactly “breaking news” to find out that Fox News is mostly
comprised of misinformation or flat-out lies.
Anyone with even a shred of common sense can watch just a handful of
their featured shows and see that the entire channel is nothing more than a
propaganda mechanism for the Republican party.
Punditfact,
a branch of Politifact, has put together profiles for CNN, MSNBC and Fox News
detailing just how honest each of these networks are. And while it’s obviously not a completely
comprehensive profile (it would be nearly impossible to fact check every single
thing said on each network) it’s a decent measure of the honesty of each. And
what do you know, Pundifact found Fox News to have only told the truth 18
percent (15 of 83) of the time for the statements they checked. And even of that 18 percent, only 8 percent
of what they said was completely “True.”
The other 10 percent was rated as “Mostly True.” A staggering 60 percent
(50 of 83) comments were found to be either “Mostly False,” “False,” or “Pants
on Fire.” The other 22 percent were rated “Half True.” Essentially well over
half of what Punditfact has fact-checked on Fox News has been a lie and only 18
percent has been deemed factual. To compare, CNN was found to have been honest
about 60 percent of the time, while only having 18 percent of their comments
found to be false. As for MSNBC, they
were found to have been honest about 31 percent of the time, while 48 percent
of the comments they had fact-checked were deemed untrue. So while MSNBC’s
numbers aren’t exactly worth bragging about, they’re still far better than the
“fair and balanced” Fox News
Though I’m
sure any conservative who might run across this article, or the Punditfact
profiles, would simply dismiss the results as “liberally biased lies.” You
know, because anything that’s not approved by Fox News or some other right-wing
media source is clearly “liberally biased propaganda.” Which is really a
fantastic piece of rhetoric, isn’t it?
Fox News, and other right-wing media sources, can lie as much as they
want. Then if any other source debunks
the nonsense they’re spewing, the conservative media simply dismisses it as
“lies perpetuated by the liberal media.” It’s how conspiracy theorists
manipulate their sheep. They perpetuate
some kind of asinine conspiracy, then when it’s completely debunked, they claim
the information debunking it is “all a part of the conspiracy.” And that’s
exactly what the right-wing media does. Which is why tens of millions of
conservatives believe that Fox News is a “fair and balanced” beacon of truth,
despite the fact that Punditfact found only 18 percent of their comments to be
factual among a fairly large sampling of 83 relatively important statements
made on the network.
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