Another example of how Fox News can distort a story [Archive] - Debate Policy

-Cp

07-25-2010, 10:35 AM

Silver

07-25-2010, 11:13 AM

Really.??

I'd say this is a perfect example of how Rachel Maddow can distort a story...\

Fox reported the story and commented on "what was known at the time" and "what the video showed", not knowing at the time it was an incomplete video and not shown in context.....Obama is the one that ACTED without complete information and he is the President for christ sake....he fired her first and then checked out the facts...

Thats like saying, because Fox reported falsely, North Korea attacked the South, and then Obama nukes the North without the complete facts...its Fox's fault...

Nice spin, but complete bullshit....

darin

07-25-2010, 11:34 AM

Your title is a fallacy - "another example" - to use that you'd have to provide evidence they've done it, purposefully, before.

(shrug)

And here's what I don't get...Even in context, what that lady said and did amounts to racism and neglect of her duties. (shrug). She should NOT be any ANY type of 'leadership' or decision-making authority.

-Cp

07-25-2010, 08:41 PM

Your title is a fallacy - "another example" - to use that you'd have to provide evidence they've done it, purposefully, before.

(shrug)

And here's what I don't get...Even in context, what that lady said and did amounts to racism and neglect of her duties. (shrug). She should NOT be any ANY type of 'leadership' or decision-making authority.

http://mediamatters.org/strupp/201007210065

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KmkVWuP_sO0

avatar4321

07-25-2010, 08:49 PM

Saw the video. I don't watch Rachel Maddow. In reality that's one of the first times I've seen her. I may have seen her in other clips before. But she was blatantly dishonest there.

She is using the clips to pretend that Fox started this scandal. Fact is, they didn't report anything until after the White House fired her. In fact, Hannity is specifically covering the fact that White House fired her. (I think OReilly might have attacked her using that stuff, but I don't think very highly of him, and he still didn't do it until after the resignation when it became a story. Can't speculate on if he would have before).

The point is, Rachel blatantly lied and took videos out of context, which is completely ironic considering this whole escapade should have taught everyone that context matters. But I guess that doesn't count when it's attacking Republicans.

Sitarro

07-26-2010, 02:32 AM

red states rule

07-28-2010, 05:08 AM

Looks to me like Maddow is the one who distorts

MSNBC Cherry Picks, Edits FNC Clips to Claim FNC Incited Sherrod Resignation & Ignored Her Side of Story

On Tuesday’s Rachel Maddow Show on MSNBC, as host Maddow complained that a video clip of former USDA official Shirley Sherrod had been edited to make it appear that she currently has a tendency to discriminate against white farmers at USDA – a clip that led to her firing by the Obama administration – the MSNBC host not only incorrectly claimed that FNC coverage of the clip had helped incite her firing, but she also suggested that FNC would never show her side of the story even though, by that time Tuesday night, several FNC shows had already informed viewers of some of the details in Sherrod’s favor. And, in fact, Sherrod had already been forced to resign before the O’Reilly Factor became the first FNC show to report the story of her comments on Monday night, although host Bill O’Reilly at the time did not realize she had already been fired.

Maddow’s show even chose to only present to her viewers clips from FNC that ran Monday and Tuesday morning which portrayed Sherrod’s comments as racist, without airing any of the clips from shows later Tuesday which showed FNC personalities conveying more of her side of the story. As Maddow filled in her viewers on some of the details in Sherrod’s favor, the MSNBC host used such phrases as "you would never know this if you got all your information from Fox News," and, after explaining that Sherrod, in fact, helped the white farmers in question, she added: "That`s what happened – unless, of course, you watch Fox News." FNC had already reported most of those same details hours earlier, and O’Reilly even informed his viewers Tuesday that Sherrod had declined an invitation to appear as a guest on his show, so liberal FNC analyst Alan Colmes appeared in her place.

As for using clips to make it appear FNC reports on Sherrod’s comments had aired before her firing, Maddow used one clip of FNC’s O’Reilly on Monday calling for Sherrod’s resignation at a time when he had not yet received word that she had already resigned, and the MSNBC show also showed an edited clip of FNC’s Dana Perino substitute hosting for On the Record with Greta Van Susteren in which Perino had reported the story Monday night, with MSNBC omitting the fact that the FNC host had informed viewers moments later in the same segment that Sherrod had already resigned.

Maddow used these first two clips, followed by a third of FNC’s Sean Hannity reporting that the resignation had happened – so that the MSNBC host could then drive home her claim that FNC had been "efficient" in getting rid of Sherrod. Maddow: "How`s that for efficient? How`s that for action? Fox News and conservative Web site uncover what they say is an admitted racist in the Obama administration and she is forced to resign immediately." Maddow had also set up the three FNC clips: "Within hours of that clip being posted online and billed as evidence of a racist within the Obama administration, Fox News, understanding their role in this delicate, well practiced dance, jumped all over it."

http://newsbusters.org/blogs/brad-wilmouth/2010/07/21/msnbc-cherry-picks-edits-fnc-clips-claim-fnc-incited-sherrod-resignat

LuvRPgrl

07-29-2010, 02:12 AM

Really.??

I'd say this is a perfect example of how Rachel Maddow can distort a story...\

Fox reported the story and commented on "what was known at the time" and "what the video showed", not knowing at the time it was an incomplete video and not shown in context.....Obama is the one that ACTED without complete information and he is the President for christ sake....he fired her first and then checked out the facts...

Thats like saying, because Fox reported falsely, North Korea attacked the South, and then Obama nukes the North without the complete facts...its Fox's fault...

Nice spin, but complete bullshit....

Unbelievable, isnt it.

Rachel Maddow uses a bunch of "out of context" clips to prove how bad and wrong it was for Fox to use and show "out of context clips"

But the saddest part of the whole thing is the American public continues to buy this wholesale destruction of the truth by the liberal media.

darin

07-29-2010, 04:01 AM

I think -Cp did, by the title of this thread, what he's accusing fox of doing.