It’s been a rough week for our ol’ friends at Fox News. Thanks to some IP-address based research, the political world learned that the FNC was responsible for “touching up” Wikipedia pages, editing content that didn’t fit with the partisan network’s political agenda.
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For example, embarrassing content from Media Matters about FNC personalities was quietly removed. Criticism of Keith Olbermann and Al Franken was accentuated. The network that specializes in on-air propaganda had taken its usual schtick to Wiki pages.
With that in mind, it shouldn’t surprise anyone that Fox News’ Chris Wallace — you guessed it — sought to undermine Wikipedia’s credibility with a report tonight.
The irony is rich. Pay particular attention to the references to “self-serving agendas” and businesses desperate to “improve their public image.”
Fox News tried to exploit Wikipedia, and got caught, so naturally it’s time to undermine the source of the network’s embarrassment. Typical.
(h/t C&Ler Jerald)
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One more time.
It’s not Fox News.
It’s Fox “News”.
What’s new 95% of the population is sold on whatever you tell them, and 98% sold if the government tells them. So why not keep feeding them Propaganda, they buy we sell what they want.. Democracy at work —–> http://www.YouPolls.com
Fox News: “Does Wikipedia hate America?”
Or:
“Wikipedia (D-Internet)”
When the dems win in 2008 I wonder if we can get some basic truth in advertising legislation to force Fox to at least label itself as Conservative News.
if Wiki is so unreliable, why the hell are they on there trying to gussy up their image?
Faux News. It is simply impossible to underestimate their level of ethics.
Fox is news from the rich to excite the poor.
Oldest game in the book.
FOX news hates, fair and imbalanced.
If you attack they lie and distort and of course, the other news outlets save Olberman report none of the falsehoods and at times they (CNN/MSNBC) echo these lies..
FOX News - GOP Filter
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Sounds like Keith’s covering the Wikipedia thing tonight.
Same old same old. They get busted and it’s time to smear. Isn’t this the same thing this administration does. They hire someone and praise he shit out of them, then when they come clean the call them names and make accusations?
Their next defense is Wiki is run by Soros. Time for Billo to call them Nazis.
Meh. A news channel with a “comedy” show ends up having to cancel said show because it sucked. No one with 2 braincells to rub together takes Wallace, Hannity of O’loufah or anyone on that network seriously.
I love the ending, where they reveal Blair’s last name…
Yes, THAT’s the lingering question left by this report. Now that we’ve wrapped up all the loose ends, on to Jenna Bush.
So did Wallace recommend to use Conservapedia instead? :lol:
…And they’re only five years behind the rest of the world.
Broken - Er, Breaking News!
Gotta catch em’ all!
The Man @ 11:
Sorry to go off topic, but that look on Jenna’s boyfriend’s face was priceless. He looked like a male praying mantis right after mating.
I thought this report was done quite well actually, for Fox Noise anyway. I thought they handled it in a pretty balanced fashion, and I don’t understand why anyone would take issue with the piece.
I mean come on. Don’t just hate for hating’s sake. There’s plenty to pick at Fox News about without having to resort to attacking for the sake of it.
the thing that makes wikipedia so great is also one of it’s biggest flaws: anyone can edit it. for those who don’t see a problem with this, consider the following- say someone wrote a wiki article about you (since you yourself can’t do it) and they write some things about you. then say someone that you pissed off pretty badly finds this wiki article and they make some changes, not necisserily negative, but say remove some of the positive things that you did.
say someone in the obama camp edited something on hillary’s wiki page, or vice versa. same thing. its not that their pages were edited, its who they edited, what was edited, and who did the editing that is the real sticking point.
Wow, there’s such a thing as wikipedia? Fox News is always on top of the latest internet breakthroughs. I heard there’s a website called Crooks & Liars but I won’t believe it until Fox News breaks this story.
Are we seeing a pattern here? The attack on DailyKos and now Wikipedia. Methinks that at the core, Fox hates open forums of information. But then again… that’s just me.
it’s time for an all-out campaigne against fnc.
we need to organize and let ALL of fnc’s advertizers we will boycott all their products.
yes, that is a real challenge,but will be worth it to remove this lying
bunch of bastards. r murddock go fuck yourself.
Somewhere a brass gorilla is missing its balls.
Let’s face it, Wikopedia is a quick and easy information resource, but it is not authoritative, especially on controversial or political subjects. I have watched over the years as its definition of Fascism has been garbled and watered down by Libertarians, Republicans and other right wing corporatists and authoritarians who have tried to rewrite history and define it as something other than corporatism. On some days, to read wiki’s definition, you would think that Fascism was synonymous with left wing ideology. It’s complete rubbish.
So what happens now? Will or can someone go back and correct what Fox did?
Let’s see if the MSM follows this one? Fox “News” is the poorest excuse for journalism ever.
Snowball @ 23:
Yes, that’s true, but it still should not allow Fox “News” to polish a turd — its turd. Fox News is a joke and it should be held as such. Funny, how the truth has a way of coming back and kicking them right in the crotch.
If Chris Wallace’s dad wasn’t who he is, he’d be working at WalMart, if whoever his dad was managed a WalMart.
What a buffoon.
Fox, Breaking News
in half,
only giving you the right side
I mean the wrong side.
the reason FNC has higher ratings than any other network in the US is because they have monopolized 100% conservative viewership while the rest of the country is spread out between nbc, cbs, abc, msnbc, cnn, ect, ect, ect. fnc does not care if they it gets caught meddling with wikipedia, exposed by dailykos and media matters because that viewership is not going anywhere.
People who watch FOX Infotainment can use computers?
Got caught with your hand in the cookie jar?
Blame the cookie jar for existing in the first place!
Man, if only I was dumb enough to subscribe to wingnut logic. Must be a simple existence.
Graham @ 16:
I agree…one of the best Faux Noise reports I have seen…of course not live, since I
refuse to watch that particular channel, but gain my insight here on C&L and Media
Matters. Seems to me it was “fair and balanced”…as much as I hate to admit.
This really isn’t surprising especially since Fox News operates in much the same way as a news outlet in North Korea.
faux snooze…..at least someone caught them
Bluestater@24
Oh, don’t get me wrong, I’m glad that Fox got caught with its pants down. It seems that the CIA has also been caught doing the same thing:
http://thinkprogress.org/2007/...../#comments
This has long been my problem with wikipedia.
“You libs are taking these changes out of context”
~Reich-winger rebuttal.
Snowball @ 34:
O’Reilly was throwing a hissy fit last week that ‘bourne supremacy’ is anti-American because it made the CIA look like bad guys.
I read some of the editing and I guess it could have been worse. Fox News could have placed pictures of Bush’s ass on those Wiki pages and indicated where to kiss it. Nah, that would have been to obvious. Everyone would have known right off that it was Fox News that placed those pictures there in the first place.
The first thing you need to know about FOX “news” - they went to court in 2003 to defend their ‘first amendment right’ to knowingly lie to their viewers.
Court Ruled That Media Can Lie. And sadly, won.
It’s all part of a larger plot by the corporate right begun shortly after Watergate to make sure that the public would never again know enough about a corrupted administration to force a resignation.
What Happened to the American Media?
The demise of the fairness doctrine, the dismantling of the rules limiting ownership - all played into the hands of Rupert Murdoch. The truth is the big loser.
Corporate Media, the CIA, where’s the dividing line?
Did they edit the Wiki entry that states Rupert Murdochs’ face looks a lot like Brittany Spears crotch when she’s getting out of a car?
-GSD
GSD @ 40:
The wiki editors get obvious stuff like that out pretty quick. Its the more subtle things that they aren’t so good at.
Sorry Fox News. Ain’t gonna work.
There are more wikipedia users than Fox News Viewers.
The sheer unadulterated audacity of these guys just blows my mind.
“Oh, and by the way, we, like all these corporations, use the Wiki to make changes.” Ho hum!
Wal-Mart changing their own site is one thing, but Faux Noise changing a competitors site info is just freaking wrong!
I hope Keith Olbermann chews their head off for:
1. Making the changes and
2. For this Bull shit “Story” they did to justify it.
These guys make me want to puke…
“the reason FNC has higher ratings than any other network in the US is because they have monopolized 100% conservative viewership while the rest of the country is spread out between nbc, cbs, abc, msnbc, cnn, ect, ect, ect. fnc does not care if they it gets caught meddling with wikipedia, exposed by dailykos and media matters because that viewership is not going anywhere.”
Viewership not going anywhere???
With an AVERAGE AGE OF 75, I’d say Fox viewers are going somewhere…SOON.
Zonk
Of course the Fox viewers are not going anywhere. That’s why they are a bunch of paranoid losers who blame their own failures on minorities, women, gays, non-Christians and immigrants.
What a bunch a f***brains, they didn’t even have the smarts to know
that they should go to an Internet Cafe and do their revisionist history making.