*** Official Politics Shitposting Thread ***

[BananaStand]

Nice try Fox News.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-38821804

It seems to me the sequence of events here goes like this > Fox ran a story and a tweet consistent with reports they received about a Moroccan attacker > The reports were corrected to state the man was just a witness > Fox corrected their story, and tweeted a correction, both in a very timely manner.

They forgot to go back and delete the original tweet. Someone saw it, asked it to be fixed, and it was. That hardly seems like an intentional agenda to scapegoat a race of people.

Seems like evidence of bias when Fox's clerical error becomes a news, yet CNN can say Betsy DeVos "Lifted" her answers to senate inquiries. They don't even have the decency to use the word "allegedly", and they get to slide.

[Poopadoop]

It seems to me the sequence of events here goes like this > Fox ran a story and a tweet consistent with reports they received about a Moroccan attacker > The reports were corrected to state the man was just a witness > Fox corrected their story, and tweeted a correction, both in a very timely manner.

They forgot to go back and delete the original tweet. Someone saw it, asked it to be fixed, and it was. That hardly seems like an intentional agenda to scapegoat a race of people.

Seems like evidence of bias when Fox's clerical error becomes a news, yet CNN can say Betsy DeVos "Lifted" her answers to senate inquiries. They don't even have the decency to use the word "allegedly", and they get to slide.

Nope, CNN sucks too.

Fox ran with the info that one 'suspect' was Moroccan, said nothing about the other (who was white). Just an honest mistake, sure. Just happens that Fox is the only news network to do this. Coincidence, sure.

[BananaStand]

Nope, CNN sucks too.

Fox ran with the info that one 'suspect' was Moroccan, said nothing about the other (who was white). Just an honest mistake, sure. Just happens that Fox is the only news network to do this. Coincidence, sure.

I agree it doesn't *look* all that good. The timing of it is odd since it came after the clarification but I'm not about to jump to the conclusion of a racist conspiracy. I mean, when you shoe-horn a mosque shooting into an already extra-busy news week, it's not unreasonable for things to get missed.

In an era of fake news, and fierce competition in television markets, it would be monumentally stupid for the nation's number 1 cable news station to do this on purpose. Fox's fuck-up is headling CNN.com, MSN.com, and others right now. That's bad optics for Fox. Why would they risk that on purpose just to shit on moroccans a little bit?

They say Fox's tweet came after the police clarified the story. If they did it on purpose, wouldn't they expect to get caught? Why would they purposely report something contrary to the already-known basic facts of a story?

In any event, the backlash seems far overblown. From the letter sent to Fox....

“If we allow individuals and organizations to succeed by scaring people, we do not actually end up any safer,” she added. “Fear does not make us safer. It makes us weaker. Ramping up fear and closing our borders is not a solution.”

Nevermind the presumptive and accusatory remarks about scaring people on purpose.....what the fuck does this have to do with 'closing borders'?? Was Morocco even one of the 7 countries on the list?

Seems to me that someone here is interested in a little more than simply correcting the record.

[Poopadoop]

Because the initial reports were two suspects, nothing was said about their race until it was said one was white the other Moroccan. So Fox's reporting is selective. Of course they don't care about pissing off liberals since that's not their audience.

[BananaStand]

Because the initial reports were two suspects, nothing was said about their race until it was said one was white the other Moroccan. So Fox's reporting is selective. Of course they don't care about pissing off liberals since that's not their audience.

What about pissing off conservatives? You're talking as if all of Fox's viewers are Kool aid sipping zombies who will believe anything they're told. If they reported that the suspect was Moroccan, and every other news report in the world, along with teh actual facts, say that the suspect was Canadian.....well then Fox will look pretty foolish to liberals and conservatives alike.

I can buy the 'selective' angle. The topic of the week has been 'foreign nationals committing terror attacks'. Now there is an actual attack, with a foreign national as a suspect. That seems like a fact that is pertinent enough to stand alone, and could reasonably be reported that way. Not saying that's the best way, or that it's totally free of 'spin', but it's only offsides if they KNEW that the guy was just a witness and reported a moroccan suspect anyway.

As a news organization, they have an incentive to remain credible. I can't believe they'd fuck that up on purpose just to cut down Morocco.