It's what people in the media do these days Sean Hannity and Bill O'Reilly do the same thing. Sean just does it more often on his tv and radio shows. He knows how to use his show to influence people's perceptions and thoughts about what is/is not true.
The event I pulled out of the article is a deliberate manipulation of emotions and a later "apology" that it was an "accident." They lied. They manipulated on purpose, and it was no "accident." Hannity and O'Reilly, though vilified by liberals, have never been rightfully accused of lying to the public. On the other hand ...
Yes, you have. They are the network that selectively edited George Zimmerman's 9-1-1 call to make him sound like a racist. They edited out the legitimate question from the dispatcher as to what race Martin appeared to be.
Yes, you have. CNN told viewers that semiautomatic weapons are banned by the so-called assault weapons law, knowing full well the law only outlaws fully automatic weapons, and they also, in a separate story, allowed reporter Drew Griffin to commit Texas and federal felonies in "proving" how easy it is to acquire a sniper rifle, when in fact it isn't easy at all and the scenario he set up to make the purchase is virtually impossible to actually carry off. His allegedly "hidden camera" was in plain sight -- proving the buy was staged -- all along.
I've seen the nightly news shows do it.
Yes, you have. CBS claimed the Bush administration "sanitized" the Wu Tang records, making the claim in order to influence the presidential election of 2004. They were caught red-handed in the lie.
In a story about an American diplomat believed to have passed secret documents to a Soviet spy, ABC News broadcast grainy footage of what appeared to be the actual handoff. It was a reenactment, and the diplomat (a Bush appointee, of course) was later found by the FBI to be innocent of any inappropriate behavior.
NBC ran the same deliberately misleading 9-1-1 call that it's sister network, MSNBC, edited to suit their tastes, and also created false drama in the 2012 Olympic gymnastics competition by editing out Russian world champion Ksenia Afanasyeva’s unexpected fall during the floor exercises, which effectively handed a gold medal to Team USA during an early stage of the contest. Removing that fall from the time-delayed version of events that NBC presented to its prime-time television viewers constituted an outright lie.
It is the same thing as a hypothetical third-inning Yankee's rally against Boston being shown as the seventh inning Yankee at-bat when, in fact, Boston had put the game away in the sixth. In other words, dishonest, manipulative and fraudulent.
While liberals have routinely accused Fox News and publications such as
The National Review and
The Weekly Standard of "deliberately misleading" viewers/readers, there have been no proven allegations, whereas in all the above cases, the networks each admitted their "mistakes."
Sorry, Zaac, but you can't find any such incident in Fox's past. You may not like Fox News, but dishonesty is not an issue with them. In fact, quite the opposite. They tell the truth, and that's what ticks off the liberals more than anything.
