Fox News Busted for Straight Up Lying
For Fox News, the theory is, if you repeat falsities enough they eventually becomes true. Unfortunately for them, pesky fact checkers don’t subscribe to the magical incantation method and so the Daily Kos compiled a video montage showing them consistently misreporting about the New England Journal of Medicine.
So what did they get wrong? Just a few key points, according to the the Daily Kos:
[T]he non-scientific survey was conducted months ago, was not published in the NEJM, and, according to a spokesperson for the journal, it has “nothing to do with the New England Journal of Medicine’s original research.
by Bucky Turco on March 18, 2010 at 12:07 pm
Editor-in-Chief:
FOX has a clear anti-working class, pro-big corporation agenda. They want to take us back to the days when the workers had no right, let alone any health insurance. FOX believes that is you are poor and get sick you should just die. Glenn Beck has said so many times.
This is the same sort of philosophy that got John Mackey, CEO of Whole Foods, in trouble last fall and the reason a number of us began a boycott of Whole Foods. He wrote, "Many promoters of health-care reform believe that people have an intrinsic ethical right to health care—to equal access to doctors, medicines and hospitals. . . How can we say that all people have . . . an intrinsic right to health care?" He went on to say that better health care should only be available to those who can afford it. This incredibly elitist viewpoint fits in perfectly with the stance of Fox and its commentators. God forbid someone poor should ever get sick!
John Mackey has personally made healthy, organic food affordable for working class Americans across the country. He just opposes forcing taxpayers to give an incentive for people to be deadbeats.
As for Fox, everyone knows the mainstream media is a pack of politically motivated lies disguised as entertainment disguised as news.
I wouldn't say that Whole Foods provides "affordable" goods to the working class. They provide very high quality foods, true, but they are pricey.