This page shows how FOX News presented a bogus story as fact. They never bothered to fact check it to make sure it was true. It wouldn't have been difficult to fact check it (something any legitimate journalistic enterprise would do, but propaganda outlets would not). All they would have had to do would be to ask the police. They also did not contact the ACORN employee in question to get any comments from her...

http://mediamatters.org/research/200909160023


Here's a couple of rather striking examples of FOX News' lies. These are graphic examples. They take photographs of people they want to present in a bad light, and they graphically alter the photographs to make the people look bad, scary, and stupid. In this one, they moved his hairline down about an inch, made his face a lot smaller and his ears bigger, made his nose a lot wider and his chin freakily big and wide. They also yellowed his teeth, added shadows to his cheek lines (making his cheeks look much more puffy) and darkened the area around his eyes to make them look sunken in...

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/0/0e/FNCControversy_Steinburg.png

In this one, they made his forehead look like it was at least a couple of inches taller than it was, they moved his hairline back at least a couple of inches also, they yellowed his teeth, and put really big, dark, circles under and around his eyes...

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/1/1b/FNCControversy_Redicliffe.png


On September, 18, FOX News took out full page ads in the Washington Post and New York Post claiming that ABC, CBS, NBC, MSNBC, and CNN did not cover the big teabagger rally in Washington a couple of weeks ago. This is easily disproven since lots of people actually watched the coverage of the rally on those networks, and since there is still plenty of footage from them at the rally. In fact, the photograph FOX uses in its ad actually came from the CNN broadcast coverage (FOX News must really believe their viewers are stupid... and maybe they have good reason to believe that).


A study done in 2003 by the Academy of Political Science (reported in their Political Science Quarterly Volume 118, Number 4, Winter 2003-2004), examined the frequency of misperceptions about certain facts according to which "news" outlet was being viewed. All of them showed some discrepancy with the facts, but FOX was by far the worst...

Frequency of misperceptions per respondent: WMD found, evidence of al Qaeda link, and world majority support for the war...

Viewers of FOX, CBS, ABC, CNN, NBC, Print Media, NPR/PBS, one or more misperception -

FOX: 80%
CBS: 71%
ABC: 61%
CNN: 55%
NBC: 55%
Print Media: 47%
NPR/PBS: 23%