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Fox is Tops

Fox, most trusted name in news, largely because it’s ridiculously trusted by ideological conservatives.

It couldn’t possibly be because this heavily ideological “news” station, with the thinnest of obscuring veneers of “fair and balanced” over its persistent and cleverly veiled advocacy, tells some people what they want to hear (while convincing them of how fair and balanced they are being), could it?

Let’s look at an example: Fox was obsessed with ACORN.  So much so that it actually derided other news stations, who were already over covering allegations against this voter advocacy and neighborhood outreach organization,  for not giving covering this even more.

Once ACORN was essentially absolved, however, of voter fraud for the past half decade –

A new report on the community group Acorn by the nonpartisan Congressional Research Service has found no evidence of fraudulent voting or of violations of federal financing rules by the group in the past five years.

–big news given the neat constant coverage and reiterations of various allegations and accusations of voter fraud against, Fox suddenly clammed up:

And how many times did America hear how this group, which supported Obama, had engaged in fraudulent voting or violated federal financing rules at the same time?

How many times will this “error of the year” be corrected? With near round the clock coverage of it just like Fox seemed to insist the “ACORN scandal” required?

Not exactly.  A google search of the terms ”ACORN,” and “fraud,” with either “voter,” or “voting” within the domain of foxnews.com yielded a plethora of results.  But in the first few dozen (we got tired of checking after that) there was no mention of the news above that ACORN had been cleared for the past half decade (changing “fraud” to “fraudulent” did not change this fact).

In fact, in the first few dozen results, none were even in the last two weeks or so, while November, October, and September found all kinds of ACORN and fraud stories on Fox.  It seems like, once the “story of the year” brought some news that didn’t suit “fair and balanced” Fox’s ideology, it went from being a ’story of the year” to pretty much off of Fox’s radar.

Now it seems a similar pattern is emerging with regard to the famous ACORN under cover sleuths, now that they have been caught, in a little “mini watergate,”  apparently trying to bug Louisiana Senator Mary Landrieu’s office – a pretty serious offense.

While a bit unsettling that Americans (or anybody) would pose as repairmen to gain access to a Senator’s office for the apparent purpose of espionage, we’re not all that sure that this is all that huge a story.  But given that Fox obsessed over the ACORN “pimp” scandal that this same person helped create, more attention certainly was warranted.

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