MSNBC and CNN have improved ever so slightly on our TV network scorecards, while Fox News has moved a touch in the opposite direction.
At Fox and Fox News, 10 percent of the claims we’ve rated have been True, 11 percent Mostly True, 18 percent Half True, 21 percent Mostly False, 31 percent False and nine percent Pants on Fire.
That means about 60 percent of the claims we’ve checked have been rated Mostly False or worse. Here’s how it breaks down (as of Jan. 27, 2015):
And besides there is scientific evidence to back up Fox's penchant for misinformation as well as the reasons they do so.
Actually I think we all realize that Fox News is forced to lie becasue their audience simply cannot handle the truth, and if they heard it they would turn off their cable boxes and go back to talk radio where they will only hear what they want to hear.
Off topic, but fun. Here's a video from Bloomberg regarding the grifter: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Lgu_M7pDtM
ReplyDeleteActually , Gryph, if you look into the method used for the results, you'll find that they rated the truthiness of the remarks “made by a pundit or a host or paid contributor on a particular network"
ReplyDeleteSo it would make sense that mnbc which has some pretty conservative guests on who tend to stretch the truth, would have the numbers they have. We know why they have the guests on-to show their collective ignorance. But they register as liars and thus increase MNBC's score.
The c4p group has all but abandoned all news sources. Their remaining sources are mainly Rush ( although he is teetering because he has yet to defend Sarah's Iowa speech), Mark Levin and a few others. Hannity is often referred to as Vannity, but he is safe for the moment. They now create their own "news" by writing essays and posting them around the web. No danger in that, right?
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