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filthy
SFN Die Hard
USA
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 Posted - 11/26/2010 : 15:14:43
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Fox Nation readers, and FN itself, will evidently believe anything.
Fox News' opinion website Fox Nation and their readers don't seem to know satire when they see it.
The Fox News sister site re-posted a joke from the satirical website The Onion Friday about President Barack Obama sending a 75,000-word e-mail to the the entire nation. At no point does Fox Nation note that the story is a satire.
The Onion story joked that Obama had "reached the end of [his] rope" and sent out the "rambling" stream of consciousness e-mail that addressed everything from the war in Afghanistan to his live-in mother-in-law.
The story goes on to say that the fake Obama e-mail was 27 megabytes and 127 printed pages.
If Fox Nation knows the story is a joke, they aren't letting on, and many of the comments on the post treat the story as if it were actual news.
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They probably don't, or at least didn't until now. And if they finally realize that they've been had, whaddaya wanna bet that they don't retract?
Wish I still had a bridge or two for sale.....
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"What luck for rulers that men do not think." -- Adolf Hitler (1889 - 1945)
"If only we could impeach on the basis of criminal stupidity, 90% of the Rethuglicans and half of the Democrats would be thrown out of office." ~~ P.Z. Myres
"The default position of human nature is to punch the other guy in the face and take his stuff." ~~ Dude
Brother Boot Knife of Warm Humanitarianism,
and Crypto-Communist! 
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filthy
SFN Die Hard
USA
14408 Posts |
Posted - 11/27/2010 : 14:05:56 [Permalink]
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Evidently I've called it. Fox Notion took down the story and the comments with no comment of their own; not even "oops!"
UPDATE: Editors scrub article, comments from site
It was George Orwell, who first coined the term "memory hole," in his classic novel 1984. For Winston, the book's main character, his full-time job with the Ministry of Truth is to rewrite history, spiriting away the inconvenient details.
Someone like Winston appears to be hard at work behind the scenes at Fox Nation.
This morning, an article and comment thread related to a piece of satire the site and its readers took seriously, went missing.
The page was preserved through Google Cache, but the comment thread, which showed dozens of loyal Fox readers reacting to a joke story from The Onion as if it were real, is gone.
Some of the comments were preserved by Raw Story in the story below.
For a news outlet to retain credibility, standard industry procedure dictates that reporters and editors not only correct mistakes, but acknowledge them as well. Fox Nation had done neither at time of this writing.
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And most likely, they won't. Conservative media are much too cowardly to step up and accept responsibility for their mistakes and their outright lies. But we already knew that.
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"What luck for rulers that men do not think." -- Adolf Hitler (1889 - 1945)
"If only we could impeach on the basis of criminal stupidity, 90% of the Rethuglicans and half of the Democrats would be thrown out of office." ~~ P.Z. Myres
"The default position of human nature is to punch the other guy in the face and take his stuff." ~~ Dude
Brother Boot Knife of Warm Humanitarianism,
and Crypto-Communist!
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Kil
Evil Skeptic
USA
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Posted - 11/27/2010 : 14:53:22 [Permalink]
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filthy:
And most likely, they won't. Conservative media are much too cowardly to step up and accept responsibility for their mistakes and their outright lies. But we already knew that. |
Saw that. And yeah, fithy, I think you called it right. It might be too late for them because it's gone a bit viral. But thinking about the huge number of things they have been called on, and how much the people who watch or follow Fox seem to care, what's another bit of stupid coming from them? |
Uncertainty may make you uncomfortable. Certainty makes you ridiculous.
Why not question something for a change?
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The Onion poes the morans
