Originally Posted By SingleParkPassholder <a href="http://www.laobserved.com/archive/2010/10/fox_news_falls_for_lapd_j.php" target="_blank">http://www.laobserved.com/arch...pd_j.php</a> You can't make this up.
Originally Posted By Dr Hans Reinhardt "Turns out Fox ripped this particular headline right out of the Weekly World News" Well duh.
Originally Posted By Princessjenn5795 That is so awesome...at least now we know the FOX anchors are just as gullible as the FOX viewers.
Originally Posted By FaMulan Just plain non-existent to poor journalistic work. Makes me glad I didn't go into my degree field.
Originally Posted By ecdc Since millions of people get their "news" from this organization, we should all care that they are so sloppy with their reporting.
Originally Posted By Kar2oonMan I think the "Fox & Friends" crew is responsible for a disproportionate percentage of Fox News Channels most embarrassing moments. Those three anchors just aren't very bright, there's no nice way to say it. Steve Doocy seems like he studied the news reading technique of Ted Baxter in the Mary Tyler Moore Show. And the dark haired guy seems perpetually amped up and clueless. Like his morning routine is a few Red Bulls and a whack on the head with a rubber hammer.
Originally Posted By Kar2oonMan video at the link: <a href="http://www.examiner.com/guilty-pleasure-tv-in-national/fox-and-friends-hosts-embarrass-selves-reporting-false-lapd-jetpack-story" target="_blank">http://www.examiner.com/guilty...ck-story</a>
Originally Posted By leobloom Thanks for posting that Kar2oonMan! I check Media Matters daily, but never saw the clip. Good to see the Three Stooges with egg on their face. Of course, in correcting themselves, they didn't mention they got the story from Weekly World News.
Originally Posted By Dr Hans Reinhardt "Those three anchors just aren't very bright, there's no nice way to say it." OMG Kar2oonMan... I just watched the video and hung my head in shame at how dimwitted they came across. "You could have jet packs flying into choppers!" Aye yi yi.
Originally Posted By DAR Fox News should be taken off the air and every single person there should be fired.
Originally Posted By Kar2oonMan So DAR, they shouldn't be held accountable when they screw up a story like this? It was from the Weekly Freaking World News, and they went with it! They should attempt to behave like a responsible news organization instead of a propaganda machine every once in awhile. It clouds their news judgement.
Originally Posted By Dabob2 What I love is they come back with, and I quote, "turns out" that the story wasn't true. "Turns out??" How about "turns out that we shouldn't be using the Bat Boy tabloid as a news source" or "turns out we shouldn't be so freaking gullible and get all outraged over things that aren't even true and can be verified as untrue with the smallest amount of checking." Oh wait - that would ruin their paradigm.
Originally Posted By Kar2oonMan Careful Dabob. If you hold them to a regular journalistic standard, someone will be along to say "Well, why is it fine when other networks do the same thing?" Or just get all huffy and say Fox should just be thrown off the air and oh, yeah, why don't you burn the Constitution while you're at it.
Originally Posted By mele "I'm all for capitalism..." What an idiot. "It looked like the LAPD was going to buy a bunch of them..." "It looks like Bat Boy was spotted buying Pronto Pups at the local county fair..."
Originally Posted By DAR <<So DAR, they shouldn't be held accountable when they screw up a story like this? It was from the Weekly Freaking World News, and they went with it!>> Sure they should be held accountable. And yes they did screw up. But in the overall picture I don't think that this particular story bears such scrutiny. The only reason it's a "big deal" is because it's Fox and people don't like Fox which is fine, they're not even on my dial along with MSNBC. But you know what I made a promise to myself when I came back here that when you guys began to crap yourselves over the tinniest little minutia someone on the right does, I was just going to stay out of those threads.
