Leonard PITTS Jr: Faux propaganda network NOT "a credible news source"

Or, the way other headline writers put it (from other links) :

Fox shows serve as GOP echo chamber

But I liked my local paper's version best:

CRAZY LIKE A FOX

>>OR IS FOX NEWS JUST PLAIN CRAZY


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http://www.mercurynews.com/opinion/ci_13471695

Opinion: Leonard Pitts Jr.: Despite ACORN story, Fox reporting is regularly inaccurate and unfair

By Leonard Pitts Jr.
Miami Herald

.... ...As one of my readers put it, "There is a lot wrong with ACORN, and Fox was the only channel talking about it."

I might join this pity party if I thought Fox a credible news source. I do not. Consider just a few of the network's and its hosts' recent lowlights:

June 3: In a column Bill O'Reilly says he never called murdered abortion doctor George Tiller "a baby killer."

This is wrong. PolitiFact.com has documented 24 instances just since 2005 of O'Reilly referring to the doctor as "Tiller the baby killer." ....

But Fox is in a class by itself. In its epidemic inaccuracy, its ongoing disregard for basic journalistic standards of fairness, its demagogic appeals and its blatantly ideological promotions it is, indeed, unique — a news source in name only.

Yet because this network that cries wolf, this network of birthers, terrorist fist bumps and tea party promotions, got it right for a change, mainstream media should wear sackcloth and ashes for their failure to take it seriously? No. ....

...But Fox forfeited any expectation of being taken seriously by serious people when it made itself an echo chamber less concerned with reporting news than with affirming the ideological biases of its viewers. ....

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And until we see the raw footage taken by the dubiously-funded James O'Keefe, we don't know what went on in those ACORN "interviews" at all. No allegation of voter fraud has ever stood up against ACORN. No underlying crime served as the basis for ACORN's purported advice to Mr. O'Keefe and his ersatz whore (a word I use advisedly, as she was indeed a prostitute, just not one for sex).

Republicans and their Fox News minions have cynically been playing both sides of a "heads I win, tails you lose" scenario. Pitts (who is usually better than this) really should take a little time and trouble to research his subjects before committing words to the page.

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