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Why serious people discount Fox News
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Contributor | RP |
Last Edited | RP Jan 27, 2015 11:27am |
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Category | Opinion |
Author | Leonard Pitts Jr. |
Media | Newspaper - Salt Lake Tribune |
News Date | Monday, January 5, 2015 11:00:00 AM UTC0:0 |
Description | Tucker Carlson said on Fox that more children die of bathtub drownings than of accidental shootings. They don't.
Steve Doocy said on Fox that NASA scientists faked data to make the case for global warming. They didn't.
Rudy Giuliani said on Fox that President Obama has issued propaganda asking everybody to "hate the police." He hasn't.
John Stossel said on Fox that there is "no good data" proving secondhand cigarette smoke kills nonsmokers. There is.
So maybe you can see why serious people — a category excluding those who rely upon it for news and information — do not take Fox, well ... seriously, why they dub it Pox News and Fakes News, to name two of the printable variations. Fox is, after all, the network of death panels, terrorist fist jabs, birtherism, anchor babies, victory mosques, wars on Christmas and Benghazi, Benghazi, Benghazi. It's not just that it is the chief global distributor of unfact and untruth but that it distributes unfact and untruth with a bluster, an arrogance, a gonad-grabbing swagger, that implicitly and intentionally dares you to believe fact and truth matter.
Many of us have gotten used to this. We don't even bother to protest Fox being Fox. Might as well protest a sewer for stinking. |
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