In the last week, Fox News has been having problems being, well, news.
This Rolling Stone article details several problems, with Fox using images from one city in a story about another and outright altering images to make police look innocent and to make the Seattle protest look scary.
Some of their errors are unintentional, however.
Last Friday, a reporter quoted Reddit, saying the post showed divisions in the Seattle protest.
Except it was a joke.
From Monty Python and the Holy Grail.
In Karlissa’s new book on source use, we have a section about how satire news gets mistaken for real news sometimes.
But we didn’t think a “news” source would fall for such obvious satire.
We would, however, believe it if they called us all “bloody peasants” behind our back while they misrepresented our desire for an anarcho-syndicalist commune. We’re also fairly certain they would totally make Trump king for life on the word of some moistened bint.
[Update: I don’t want to have a whole new post every time Fox alters data, so I’m just going to add examples here.]
Fox News cut Donald Trump out of an infamous picture of Jeffrey Epstein (with their significant others).
Fox News got a defamation lawsuit against Tucker Carlson’s show thrown out after arguing that their audience knows Carlson spews bullshit. The judge agreed it’s bullshit. I contend that some of their audience believes the bullshit, especially since Fox News tells its viewers they’re the only reliable source.
