The best thing about Fox is that most Americans don't watch it. For instance: At the height of his popularity, before he began to lose his audience, only about 1% of America tuned into Glenn Beck. Ninety-nine percent of Americans had something better to do with their time than being fed Beck's made up facts.
A trick of the liberal news media is apparent here. You say that Fox has made up facts but you don't point out which facts and how they are made up. Glenn Beck was criticized by CNN and George Soros this morning. They did the same thing you just did and accused Beck of making up the facts. Of course, everybody is supposed to say how bad Beck and Fox are. Soros or CNN did not challenge one fact of either Fox or Beck.
Glenn Beck begins his program by stating his positions. He then calls up on numerous sources of historical facts and data. He often shows you the data and always tells you where to find it. Then he offers his criticisms. Then he invites the opponent the opportunity to respond to his facts and to question his political views. In return, all he gets are broad statements that Beck makes up the facts but they challenge none of the facts or his ideas based on his facts. Of course, the public is supposed to believe what Soros and CNN say about Fox and all the pundits of Conservationism.
To blame the listeners of Fox of not thinking is liberal arrogance that they only tell the truth. But, the fact is that liberals are the masters at taking comments of Beck, Rush, Hannity, and others out of context every time these men reveal a shameful truth of the liberal media or a liberal politician. The article you suggest we read to support your blind criticism of Fox is a perfect example of how liberals like Soros and CNN twist the facts.
I did not read the entire article but the opening statement was enough to know the article was a liberal spin and you could see clearly the author knew he was lying and like a good Communist would do, he was proud of his lie. You could tell he justified his article because his lie would make a conservative look like the fake. That is the strategy of the liberalized mews media. Once the public becomes aware of this strategy, they will discount most things the media says about the honest people in the media.
Rupert Murdoch was quick with a response: I dont think people would believe its as concocted as it is; that stuff is just made up.
Indeed, a former Fox News employee who recently agreed to talk with Media Matters confirmed what critics have been saying for years about Murdochs cable channel. Namely, that Fox News is run as a purely partisan operation, virtually every news story is actively spun by the staff, its primary goal is to prop up Republicans and knock down Democrats, and that staffers at Fox News routinely operate without the slightest regard for fairness or fact checking.
"That stuff" was true. What was concocted is what was said about the stuff. The facts were so clear that people would not believe it was made up. Murdoch may have misspoken somewhat but he certainly was nos not making a declaratory statement about Fox. The article makes this clear by the fact it does not reveal its secret source and there is no legal reason for keeping its souse secret other than there was no source. The reader is not to question the ethics of the liberal reporter. Can anybody believe that "every news story" is spun by the staff? Liberals want you to blindly to think so. Whereas the article refers to the blindness of fact checking, the Arthur does not cite any specific facts he has checked as true or false. The article is simply more liberal propaganda, pure and simple.
