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Comparing James Hoffa's Rhetoric with the Tea Party's Open Threats

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jamesfirecat9/06/2011 10:09:57 am PDT

re: #37 Charles

So … Fox News deliberately edits a video to falsely accuse someone of calling for violence … and then what? Everybody just moves on?

It’s kind of amazing that this is getting so little play in the media. This is one of the most blatant, egregious, deliberate violations of journalistic ethics I’ve ever seen.

I mean, I know people have learned not to expect honest journalism from Fox, but this one really crosses a red line. And nobody gives a shit?

Fox news has successfully screwed the Overton Window of news ethics to the point that we aren’t surprised anymore it started with bending the truth to overstate their case (images of one rally intercut with ones of a much bigger rally held on a previous date months ago) and now they seemed to have moved into doing it for malicious purposes.

The problem is that there’s nobody who can call Fox out on this with any sense of authority/power over them…