Not Fair and Balanced

on 4/17/09

This is why I don't like Fox News:

http://tiny.cc/VTTwE

They report this story from the angle that Obama's administration requested all religious symbols be covered up for Obama's speech at Georgetown University.

But in reality, Obama didn't request for any religious symbols to be covered. The White House simply requested that everything that wasn't part of the traditional presidential backdrop (blue curtains and flags) be covered up. That happened to include some religious symbols (it is a Catholic school after all).

Ridiculous.

FoxNews did report the story accurately in the actual article, but the headline is misleading and FoxNews and their editors know that most people won't take the time to read the article to find the truth.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Uhhh, this is not a sin only committed by FoxNews; This is the state of journalism today. The only purpose of any news source, be is CNN, FoxNews, or that abomination of NBC, is to sell news. Sell. Not deliver. Accuracy be damned. And I don't think that this is something you can single Fox News out on, when every major news source is guilty of it.

Brad Williams said...

I totally agree. This is more a post to point out to the followers of FoxNews that it is biased much the same as MSNBC is to the other side of the aisle.