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Friday 2 October 2009

Every liberal who even considers going on Fox to act as props for their propaganda machine should stop and think again. Moreover, every consumer of the news — conservative, centrist, or liberal — needs to understand that Fox is not a reliable source of information. Mainstream media in general have become less reliable, but most of them strive to be factually accurate, even if they skew ideologically somewhat. But this skew has more to do with framing and news selection than the actual reporting. This is not the case at Fox. It deliberately broadcasts falsehoods and fake information to serve its ideological agenda. No doubt this makes the Kool-Aid drinkers of the right happy. But for anyone else — particularly anyone who relies on accurate information for their business or occupation or the livelihoods — Fox News is a wasteland or outright disinformation that anyone with smidgen of intelligence will avoid. Orcinus

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