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Fox News Sinks To New Low, Repeatedly Reports Parody Story As Actual News
On Tuesday, Fox News morning show “Fox & Friends” aired at least eight segments on a purported “news” story that was actually a parody article written by a publication similar to The Onion.
The backstory: Last week in the town of Lewiston, Maine, a group of Somalian Muslim middle school students were the subject of a cruel prank when their peers placed a ham steak next to them in order to personally offend the students. School officials filed a report because the students considered the act to be a hate/bias crime.
This actual story was then spoofed by a parody site called Associated Content, which made up quotes and details, such as the school’s intention to “create an anti-ham ‘response plan.’”
On Tuesday, Fox & Friends reported these parody quotes and details as actual news. Poking fun at the students, hosts asked whether ham was “a hate crime…or lunch?” and showed screen shots of ham sandwiches, starving Somalians, belching, animal noises, and mock “reenactments” of the incident. Ironically, the hosts assured viewers several times, “We’re not making this up!”
I don't know what's sadder, Fox News buying an Onion-esque FAKE news story or their idiotic, sheep-like viewers who then subsequently sent hate mail to the school district after watching this bogus report.
In the parody, the ham steak became a ham sandwich. Fake quotes were attributed to Superintendent Leon Levesque, Stephen Wessler of the Center for the Prevention of Hate Violence, and one of the Somali students targeted in the incident. […]
Following the Fox broadcast, Levesque’s office received dozens of angry phone calls and profanity-laced e-mails, made and sent by people all over the country, who charge the school district overreacted to what they believed from news reports to be a ham sandwich tossed at a Somali student. […]
“Fox has figured out, from the calls we’ve gotten, that they’ve made a big mistake,” Wessler said.
“This is a wake-up call that the level of hate and anger, among a small population, is vibrant,” he added.
Levesque said he was bothered not only that the parody took aim at a sensitive issue in Lewiston, but also that Fox and others reported the information as fact without checking. The national media, Levesque said, sees information posted online and “uses it as gospel.”
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Am I the only who can't help but be amused at the radical left's constant obsession with Fox News..?
By the way, what exactly did Fox News report that was untrue..? Sorry, but I don't consider "Think Progressive" to be an unbiased source of relating what Fox News said.
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Re: More embarrassment for Fox News
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By the way, what exactly did Fox News report that was untrue..?
Fox News reported that the school district was working with the Center for the Prevention of Hate Violence to create an "anti-ham response".
They reported that a school official said, "These children have got to learn that ham is not a toy."
They also reported that an official with the Center for Prevention of Hate Violence said, "Placing ham where Muslim students are eating is an awful thing. It's extraordinarily hurtful and degrading. They probably felt they were back in Mogadishu starving and being shot at."
The hosts repeated four times that they were not making anything up. It turns out they didn't make anything up, they were reporting an Onion-like parody article as real news.
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Am I the only who can't help but be amused at the radical left's constant obsession with Fox News..?
By the way, what exactly did Fox News report that was untrue..? Sorry, but I don't consider "Think Progressive" to be an unbiased source of relating what Fox News said.
that's interesting... what about your obsession with the "liberal media" then?
Fox News reported that the school district was working with the Center for the Prevention of Hate Violence to create an "anti-ham response".
You have got to be kidding me. If you ever watched Fox & Friends you would know that this sort of tongue-in-cheek, wise-ass remarks are thrown around all the time.
If you honestly think this was meant as a serious piece of journalism, and not a tongue-in-cheek example of how ridiculous our society is, then I have some cattle futures you may be interested in. Sorry if I don't take the word of "Think Progressive" or other members of the loony left like yourself, Shmessy or Mr3IQ. ("ME USED TO BE BOXER AND ME NO LIKE YOU!! ME BASH YOU!!")
I have a tangential question I'd like to see you answer (but I know you won't): Do you consider Dan Rather and CBS News to be a source of integrity in journalism..?
More embarrassment for Fox News
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