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Apparently 4chan has reached the point where they score an 'investigative report' on Fox News. Does anyone else here besides me find this as simply ridiculous? Calling them a 'secret website', 'hackers on steroids', and describing them as a major threat? Bloody hell, what are they smoking?
 
American 'news' sucks. They make up bullshit for sensationalism and then present it like the trailer to a horrible movie. Why on Earth do people watch this shit?
 
~The Master~ said:
American 'news' sucks. They make up bullshit for sensationalism and then present it like the trailer to a horrible movie.
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Sir, as an American and a veteran of the war in Iraq, I have only one response for you:

Yeah, pretty much... especially Fox News. I haven't watched the national American news in years (I check the BBC Web site), because I can't stand the fact that underwear models, sensationalism, and "commentators" (i.e., reporters who spout ignorant opinions on issues about which they know nothing) are apparently the only newsworthy items.
 
~The Master~ said:
American 'news' sucks. They make up bullshit for sensationalism and then present it like the trailer to a horrible movie. Why on Earth do people watch this shit?
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I think you answered your own question.

Archaic said:
Apparently 4chan has reached the point where they score an 'investigative report' on Fox News. Does anyone else here besides me find this as simply ridiculous? Calling them a 'secret website', 'hackers on steroids', and describing them as a major threat? Bloody hell, what are they smoking?
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Eh, it's a local Fox affiliate. They're just trying to get national attention. And it's a Los Angeles affiliate. Just be glad it's not a detailed report on what the stars are buying at Wal-Mart.
 
You're talking about a network that is basically a propaganda stream for conservatives and the Republican party.

You have personalities paraded as "reporters". People like Bill O'Reilly who are so blatantly biased it makes my head hurt.

Fox News Techniques:
  • "Some people say". - Fox News Reporters favorite method of inserting their own opinion into stories and masking it under the guise of "some people say". Example: "Some people say the United States is making GREAT progress in Iraq".
  • Cutting a guest's mic. - Bill O'Reilly loves this one. Someone is brought on his show, given a question that invokes a heated response and then are shouted into submission. When that doesn't work, they'll simply cut the person's mic.
  • "Shut up, please". - Bill O'Reilly mostly uses this one. Whenever he's losing an argument, he'll just tell someone to "shut up".
  • Stacking the deck against Liberals/Democrats. - Former Fox News insiders and producers have come out and openly admitted that when preparing their programs, they were always made to portray pro-war/anti-abortion/pro-Bush Administration sentiments in positive lights. Example: If a panel discussion includes two anti-war guests, the producers were required to have three pro war guests.

These are only some of a laundry list of techniques Fox News uses to mask their Conservative Bias and claim they're "fair and balanced".

Source: http://www.outfoxed.org/

(You have to buy the DVD, but you may be able to see clips, etc. on youtube).
 
I feel bad for the victims, but at the same time...ROFL. It's always fun when the media tries to report stuff on the Internet.
 
Fox must be on a roll! Just the other night they had another of those "Investigative Reports" about Maple Story. Really kind of funny, especially the supposed 11 year old who stole her Mom's credit card. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0M4SsoI4K6g

But that was rather amusing. Going on about secret websites and them being cyber terrorists while showing that exploding truck every time they mentioned it xD
 
Hey, don't you assholes go bagging on my local Fox affiliate, KTTV! You diss KTTV, you diss the entire Los Angeles metropolitan area including Orange County. :p

Regardless... This isn't Fox News people. This is a local news channel. A fucking affiliate. Sure, KTTV is probably one of the most important affiliates (due to its location in Los Angeles). And sure, Fox News deserves the criticism it deserves... But saying that this is a reflection of Fox News' "fair and balanced" reporting is misdirected at best. Plain dumb at worst. Any local news program is bound to do this type of bullshit.
 
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But 4chan is the reason for Rule 34.
Without them, we probably wouldn't have Sesame Street and Bob the Builder porn.
*gets shot for scarring everyone for life*
I can understand why Fox would want to do a piece on them.
 
Oh joy, sensationalism. And about their favourite target, too: the internet.

I think they're kind of living in the past (mid-late 90s, to be exact). They looked to me like they were treating computers as something exotic (to semi-quote an article/review on the Die Hard series), when loads of people know and use them on a regular basis.
 
That was pretty hilarious. Also pretty sure that was my local news there.
 
You know, this is Fox News we are talking about. Even though my country's news system also just about in the trash (for other reasons, of course), they once aired a documentary criticising Fox News.

I shook my head after watching it. And this is also how I know about this mess, even though I'm on the other side of the globe.

Now, after watching this, I don't really know what else I have to say. The bomb threat - did they know how much substance was in that threat? And the victims - while I do sympathise with them and their situation, it's just over sensationalised; it's like blowing up three relatively minor matters into national disasters.

Granted, if you play safe on the internet, none of this could ever happen to anyone. Did they check (and report) whether the victims had their own prevention measures against this?

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You're talking about a network that is basically a propaganda stream for conservatives and the Republican party.

You have personalities paraded as "reporters". People like Bill O'Reilly who are so blatantly biased it makes my head hurt.

Fox News Techniques:
  • "Some people say". - Fox News Reporters favorite method of inserting their own opinion into stories and masking it under the guise of "some people say". Example: "Some people say the United States is making GREAT progress in Iraq".
  • Cutting a guest's mic. - Bill O'Reilly loves this one. Someone is brought on his show, given a question that invokes a heated response and then are shouted into submission. When that doesn't work, they'll simply cut the person's mic.
  • "Shut up, please". - Bill O'Reilly mostly uses this one. Whenever he's losing an argument, he'll just tell someone to "shut up".
  • Stacking the deck against Liberals/Democrats. - Former Fox News insiders and producers have come out and openly admitted that when preparing their programs, they were always made to portray pro-war/anti-abortion/pro-Bush Administration sentiments in positive lights. Example: If a panel discussion includes two anti-war guests, the producers were required to have three pro war guests.
These are only some of a laundry list of techniques Fox News uses to mask their Conservative Bias and claim they're "fair and balanced".

Source: http://www.outfoxed.org/

(You have to buy the DVD, but you may be able to see clips, etc. on youtube).
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I think I actually watched that very same documentary you are referring to here - the tactics listed here sound all too familiar...
 
deja0entendu said:
...what's 4chan?
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The Western answer to 2channel. 2channel is a Japanese Internet forum, the largest in the world. Users don't have to register to post (a model I heartily approve of), and that's also basically how they do things on 4chan.


That's about all I can tell you. 2channel and 4chan have no single theme... lots and lots of people post text and images about lots of different stuff. They're also nurseries for Internet memes.
 
lol, this is all too funny. Both Articles to be exact. (Almost as funny as Viz starting to use "Hella" in their comics and picturing people from Sol Cal's reactionz, lol)

I'd like to give the kid a chance, but who wants to bet his password was "password" or "myspace", lolz! It's even more funny because his girlfriend broke-up with him over the myspace account! LOL!! This is hilarious!

I want to see a Fox news report next on people who take too many napkins from fast food restaurants!
 
Hubologist said:
The Western answer to 2channel. 2channel is a Japanese Internet forum, the largest in the world. Users don't have to register to post (a model I heartily approve of), and that's also basically how they do things on 4chan.


That's about all I can tell you. 2channel and 4chan have no single theme... lots and lots of people post text and images about lots of different stuff. They're also nurseries for Internet memes.
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4chan is also a nursery for some really disturbing porn. Do not go there if you want to keep your sanity.
 
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