Reporting Bias?

Is Fox News fair?

Fair and Bal­anced or just alleged­ly Biased, is fox news real­ly as fair as they say they are?

Just what is report­ing bias?

Is it not report­ing the full facts, or what some might call lies of omis­sion, an exam­ple would be the fol­low­ing you buy a used car at the used car deal­er, and you dri­ve it one block where the engine blows up, you go back to the car deal­er and they say sor­ry its your car you failed to ask the right ques­tions and so we did not tell you the car had a faulty engine.

Is that not report­ing the facts as you know them to be?

Per­haps it is, who knows for sure, except that in this recent head­line by Fox news.

The Labor Depart­ment reports ini­tial job­less claims fell by 34,000 to 388,000 last week, the low­est lev­el in near­ly two and a half years.

But is this an accu­rate news sto­ry? Because when you put this sto­ry up against the facts then the sto­ry just does not hold water.

In fact alleged­ly you could even say that it was dis­hon­est and that not only should some­one be fired but that per­haps they should be fined, as well right, why not revoke their char­ter? If they can­not report the real news then per­haps the lib­er­als are right and fox news is not real­ly a new com­pa­ny but real­ly they are a tabloid like enter­tain­ment com­pa­ny.

Harsh right? Per­haps, it is, but the above head­line, fails to state that sea­son­al employ­ment num­bers are always dis­tort­ed this time of year, so the actu­al num­bers here are not accu­rate, so what they have report­ed may not be accu­rate at all in fact when you fac­tor into the equa­tion the num­ber of jobs that are sea­son­al then the sto­ry becomes very dif­fer­ent.

The idea that we have news com­pa­nies that are delib­er­ate­ly dis­tort­ing the news based on per­son­al opin­ions and not fact is dis­turb­ing.

I want to know is it incom­pe­tence?
Is it stu­pid­i­ty?
Is it arro­gance?

Or like all the oth­er net­works do they just think we are a bunch of sheeple.

You know like a heard of ani­mals to be herd­ed around because we don’t know enough to fig­ure out that we are being lied to by the media or per­haps by some one that should be fired from the posi­tion of pro­duc­er of fox news.

Any one with a brain, knows that this time of year, employ­ment sta­tis­tics mean noth­ing, sim­ply because there are too many sea­son­al vari­a­tions in the equa­tion to have any mean­ing­ful data.

So sor­ry Fox news you missed the sto­ry here again, per­haps bet­ter luck next time, but you know peo­ple are no where near as stu­pid as your pro­duc­ers think we are, you should con­sid­er that when doing these news sto­ries.