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Fox news doesn't really report anything different than the other cable or network channels

First nomination for "Lie of the year 2011"



Here's the winner from 2010, in case you learn to read:

http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2010/12/17/5668817-biggest-lie-of-2010-government-takeover-of-health-care

http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/article/2010/dec/16/lie-year-government-takeover-health-care/

http://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/matt-hadro/2010/12/17/gop-calling-obamacare-government-takeover-health-care-biggest-lie-year-t

http://www.newsweek.com/blogs/the-gaggle/2010/12/17/government-takeover-of-fiction.html

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-20026016-503544.html


Perpetrated by Fox of course. How many other networks falsely reported it like this? That's right. Zero.

Fox boss caught slanting news reporting

http://mediamatters.org/blog/201012090003

From: Sammon, Bill
Sent: Tuesday, October 27, 2009 8:23 AM
To: 054 -FNSunday; 169 -SPECIAL REPORT; 069 -Politics; 030 -Root (FoxNews.Com); 036 -FOX.WHU; 050 -Senior Producers; 051 -Producers
Subject: friendly reminder: let's not slip back into calling it the "public option"

1) Please use the term "government-run health insurance" or, when brevity is a concern, "government option," whenever possible.

2) When it is necessary to use the term "public option" (which is, after all, firmly ensconced in the nation's lexicon), use the qualifier "so-called," as in "the so-called public option."

3) Here's another way to phrase it: "The public option, which is the government-run plan."

4) When newsmakers and sources use the term "public option" in our stories, there's not a lot we can do about it, since quotes are of course sacrosanct.