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April 19, 2007

FOX News Writes Its Own 'Facts'

Still no time for blogging, but I gotta backlog of crap to post sometime...Like this, for instance.

I came across this curiosity while perusing writing jobs. One always suspects FOX News just makes things up on a daily basis. Note that the title of this job is not "fact checker" -- a common position for any news organization. This appears to be a gig to write copy for the FOX news ticker that runs below the main stories, and/or create those captions--"students say gunman was a loner"--that let viewers just tuning in get a general sense of the news being presented. I wonder, though, if they check any of their facts for either of these or if their "fact writers" simply transform rumor and innuendo into "fact" by putting them on television.

Posted by MJuhre at 06:06 PM | Comments (0)