Daily Chicken Scratch

Thursday, October 25, 2007

How to make no news into...well faux news.

What a surprise for Fox News to make something out of nothing. For a "news" organization that touts itself as "Fair & Balanced" and that also boasts a nit-wit commentator that offers a "No Spin Zone", this story is stuffed with nothing more than SPIN. How bad does your news coverage become when you have to turn a wildfire story into a wild charade about a terrorist plot to burn California. This is truly another pathetic attempt to relate this to the "War on Terror".
For the second straight day, Fox News stood virtually alone in advancing thinly supported speculation to raise fears that the wildfires ravaging California are not the result of a confluence of arid heat and high winds but were set deliberately by al Qaeda terrorists bent on destroying America.

Fox & Friends, the conservative cable channel, was panned Wednesday for breathlessly reporting a sketchy, four-year-old FBI memo as if it offered new information linking America's enemies in the "Global War on Terror" with a plot to burn down southern California.

The morning team was back at it Thursday, as anchor Alisyn Camerota introduced a segment on the fires that again mischaracterized and over-inflated warnings from a 2003 interview with an al Qaeda detainee.

Good job Faux News. Keep up the good work. And remember the Spin Starts here!

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