Best take down of Fox ever..

[busterbrown]

No need to explain...................Just watch and see how a group of Vermont High Schoolers destroy
Fox...

Send this to your crazy relatives who have Fox on 24/7..
Might make them think a little..

[kwolf68]

1. This is freaking AWESOME

LOVED THIS.

[RiverLover]

64. Yep these kids mounted an excellent defense against being called a Liberal state.

And they called liberals "mindless".

AWESOME.

[Rex]

2. Foxentertainment is nothing but racist/bigoted pundits sneering all day long.

That a child could destroy them, is easy to understand since NONE of them are journalists or have an ounce of morality! Good for the kids! I hope it really embarrassed Fucknews adults - not that I would expect introspection from a bunch of rich, racist republicans.

[zeemike]

41. You beat me to it...they are not journalist.

And don't give a flying fuck about any code of ethics...and they all know it.
It is pure propaganda and they deliver it for the money and the satisfaction of venting their anger.

But most of their listeners feel the same, they are angry and want to take it out on someone...and you could not embarrass them because they will never see it...they don't watch things unless it is pure right wing meme...out of sight out of mind.

[shenmue]

4. Now that was awesome.

[tosh]

5. K&R!!

[underpants]

6. Marking looks funny

[Thinkingabout]

7. K & R, good post, thanks for sharing.

[AlbertCat]

8. Good work!

But work on the "us vs we" thing in grammar.

[Delphinus]

9. That was

**well** worth the time watching! Kudos, youth!

[rhett o rick]

10. Wait a minute. If this is about fairness, I wish to point out that pitting

BillO and Waters against college students is totally unfair. I think a High School class or even yet a jr. high class would be more fair. Even then BillO would fail. When you think of stupid, think of Fox Noise.

[NewJeffCT]

17. They are a high school class

Located near (or on?) the Bennington College campus, but it's Mt Anthony Union High School that does the work.

[Moonwalk]

21. Still not fair. Kindergarteners could beat out Fox in fairness and accuracy....

...Maybe a nursery school?

[rhett o rick]

47. I stand corrected. Thank you. nm

[cui bono]

26. They are a high school class!

The first girl introduces them as a high school class though the visual lists Bennington College in bigger type as she does.

[rhett o rick]

48. Thanks for straightening that out.

[AwakeAtLast]

11. As a teacher, this is outstanding work!

They did a great job, their teacher should be proud.

[NewJeffCT]

18. As Fox News says

It's the "overwhelming liberal bias" of Vermont that could account for the outstanding work.

[tnlurker]

12. For Later reading

[Stephen Retired]

13. That was great!

[A HERETIC I AM]

14. Excellent. n/t

[world wide wally]

15. IF capitalism really was at play in this country, CBS, NBC, and ABC would put this much effort into

something similar and pound away at it endlessly to bury Fox once and for all.
Why won't they?

[Fred Sanders]

30. It would reveal their own lying? First Fox, then CNN and then what? A free media telling truth?

That would be the end of the GOP, the end of CU, the end of their power and profit, it would be chaos with socialists in charge!

[world wide wally]

38. I knew there had to be a catch

[7962]

67. Because compared to them, fox doesnt have many viewers. Waste of time to them. nt

[Paka]

16. K&R

Loved it. Thanks.

[QuebecYank]

19. Puts, so-called news critics to shame

It says a lot, that a group of high school students can give a thorough critical and truthful assessment of a media outlet, that many professionals seem unwilling to do. Outstanding!!!

[daleanime]

20. bookmarked

for sharing.

[Enthusiast]

22. Kicked

and recommended!

[MissDeeds]

23. Excellent piece

Unfortunately, I had to stop watching it about halfway through because the snippets of Fox "News" nearly made me stroke out. Really.

K&R

[Raine1967]

24. Best part: they are the future!

This mad me very very happy to watch, I posted it to my FB page!

[Cha]

55. Excellent point to bring up, Raine.. they are our Future!

Good to post on FB!

[7962]

25. The President won Vermont 67-31 in '12. Hows it "bad journalism" to claim its a liberal state?

I doubt he won any other state by that wide a margin. Bernie Sanders is their senator. The Watters segment is a HUMOR segment. Nice to see kids learning, but the subject should really be something more serious. I just dont understand the constant obsession with every tiny little thing fox does. I just dont lose any sleep about them. One of my biggest customers has fox on their tv in the area where i do my work. I'm usually in there 1-2 hrs each visit. I dont really even notice its ON.
How many polls do we refer to where a few thousand respondents are used to represent the entire 300+ million US population?

[cui bono]

27. Watch the video, it will answer your question. n/t

[7962]

37. I did. Like I said, its good to see kids learning, it just was a silly subject

You can google a bunch of those Watters segments and see many of them showing people express a dislike for BillO! Its NOT a journalism segment, its a humor segment. Always has been.
If Fox had such an huge impact on people we wouldnt have a 2 term President Obama. Compared to broadcast network ratings, they're really not that important. When I mention silly fox stuff to folks I know who are on the right, they just point to bad acts by Sharpton or Schultz on THEIR programs. There's enough screw ups to go around i guess.
You'll notice that the kids have apparently also taken the NY Times to task for their reporting.

[Tsiyu]

60. right

O'Liely insulted their town, and as they live there, they could see the bias and shoddy "reporting" and "interviewing" techniques.

If they did they same thing to your town or neighborhood, it might encourage you to act.

And there is NO WAY you can't defend yourself against FOX viewers. If that's all you got, you aren't paying attention and you aren't committed.

FOX noos is a scourge on our society.

We should battle them like they are wildlings.

[7962]

66. So does any other show that does "man on the street" clips. Nobody takes them seriously

This one didnt make them look like fools, I saw people standing by their vote. Look at the clips Leno did or Kimmel. Shoot, Kimmel just did one the other day interviewing people about MLK and asking questions as though he were still alive! Watters clips are silly. he loves getting people who dont even like billo.
Fox doesnt have a lot of viewers when compared to the networks. Not even close. And your response is just what I'm talking about; "battle them". I prefer to spend my energy on things that will make a difference. There have been groups wasting their entire existence on "fighting" fox. Whats happened? Nothing; they're still on and they will continue to be on. Its silly that such effort is spent to show someone on fox saying something stupid. Its amazing that they get so much exposure here on DU
I'm going to spend my effort & money supporting candidates that actually can accomplish things that are important. If fox went off air tomorrow, there would be another one to replace them the next day. But hey, to each his own. You have your opinion about whats important and i'm not going to berate you for it. We just have a difference of opinion, thats all.

[Tsiyu]

70. Leno and Kimmel do entertainment shows

They have never been journalists.

Those kids are talking about holding purported JOURNALISTS to THEIR OWN CODE OF ETHICS.

I AM aware that rightwingers HAVE no ethics, so there is that.

But if you think self-titled journalists shouldn't have any ethics, you would be right about one thing. We have very different opinions.

[Flatulo]

75. But neither O'Reilly nor Watters even pretend to be journalists. BillO is a commentator, and

Watters is a humorist. Watters has never even made an attempt to deliver straight news.

It's all theatre, folks.

[Tsiyu]

79. So why the surprise when their placecards at the press dinner

only said 'FOX' - sans the "News" part?

More theater, of course. I know that.

They still are a scourge and a plague on decent society.

[perdita9]

29. Are you saying Fox News doesn't cause damage?

How much time and money did we waste on their Benghazi nonsense? How many people still think there were WMDs in Iraq? Or that President Obama is coming for their guns?

Propaganda HURTS people. It should be called out for doing so.

[Fred Sanders]

31. Anyone not seeing what you see is not wanting to see.

Amazing that there are these kind of folks hanging around to defend Fox in any way.

[7962]

39. Oh, I'm not defending them, I just dont think they matter much. Didnt matter to Obama!!

Like he said in the SOTU speech, he won both his campaigns!
I think most networks, whoever they may be, do have some sort of agenda to some extent. But thats what reading is for. Do your own research to read other sides of a story. Look at the Rolling Stone rape story; it was obvious from the start that the reporter wanted to push her agenda and she was allowed to do so. The same thing with the old Duke story; the news ran wild with that without even having any evidence.
It just amazes me that ANY OP about fox will usually get hundreds of responses compared to much bigger stories. It borders on obsession for some. And they just arent that big of a deal to me. Silly. But to each his own, I guess.

[zeemike]

43. It is mind control and that does matter.

And it works the same as TV advertiseing...simple message and repeat it as often as you can.
And based on fear.

But TV does not matter to me as well, because I don't watch it, but it is making my fellow man crazy with fear and anger and that concerns me.

[drm604]

59. It may not have prevented Obama from being elected twice

but it may be responsible for the Congress we currently have and that's at least as important as the Presidency.

[7962]

68. But if that was the case, the Dems wouldnt have had both houses earlier

fox ratings have been whatever they are for years. If they REALLY had such a big impact, the Democrats wouldnt have had the House, Senate and presidency all at the same time for two yrs. Yes things are different now, but how long do you think it will last? The GOP will do some stupid shit soon enough and people will shake their heads and vote them back OUT of leadership again. They are their own worst enemies and a fox news wont rescue them from that!
Of course, the GOP might get a clue and drop all the social nonsense from their plans and turn their focus to jobs and the debt. But what are the chances of that?!

[drm604]

71. Certainly other conditions vary

and Fox can never guarantee Republican control, but they can nudge things to the right and, combined with other conditions such as gerrymandering and which seats are up for reelection, they can sometimes make a difference.

Just because they don't always win total control doesn't mean that they have no effect. No one is claiming that.

You're contending that the media has no effect and that propaganda doesn't work. Most people would disagree.

[7962]

72. True. Most here would disagree with the conventional wisdom about the media too

I do too, to some extent. That conventional wisdom being that most big media is more liberal than conservative. Fox is pretty much the lone right leaning network of any size, yet they still only get a tiny amount of viewers compared to the big guys and certainly as a whole. I'd venture to say that most of their viewers who vote gop arent doing so because anything fox tells them, but they already DID vote gop to start with. Its just odd to me that there's a borderline obsession with fox for a lot of people here. I just see them as a contrarian voice that mostly appeals to people who have already made up their minds. Maybe I just see it differently because they dont have any effect on ME. I see them a lot because of the places I work and I still have no desire to pull the lever for TEd Cruz!

[A Simple Game]

40. So if Fox "News" came to your town you wouldn't talk about it? How about if what they

reported was not "Fair and Balanced"? Nobody in the video said Vermont wasn't a liberal State, just that the demographic Fox selected to report on didn't represent the population of Vermont or even Bennington which is about 16,000 in population.

You should watch the video, you may learn something from some kids, I did, as did the rest who watched it.

[7962]

57. I said earlier I watched the video. Its not that big a deal.

Those clips are not meant to be serious. Its a JOKE. Watch some of the others. It was hardly a real "poll".

[Cha]

56. The kids at the Vermont high school were dead on in each and every Journalistic Code of Violation

and "Serial Distorted Perceptions".. I'm surprised you didn't get that, 7962!

Defending fox "news".. really? There is no defense.

[perdita9]

28. Why can't the MSM do the same thing as these high school students?

Can you imagine if Fox was in medicine and not media? They'd be the guy butchering patients every day in the operating room and their peers would be sitting around in the staff area say, "Oh, but he gets really good ratings."

[Vincardog]

32. This should be required viewing at every Congressional hearing.

[hifiguy]

33. Those smart kids just

burned Faux to the ground, limed the earth and plowed them under.

This should be seen by a nationwide audience or go viral on YouTube.

My hat is off to these young men and women.

[KeepItReal]

34. Well done ladies and gentlemen scholars!

eom

[Dustlawyer]

35. "Rank Propaganda!" They hit the nail on the head with that! Fox is first and foremost a

"PROPAGANDA" channel.

[smirkymonkey]

36. These kids give me hope for the future!

Great spot!

[mountain grammy]

42. Great work..

We need real journalism in America and the major networks aren't doing a good job of it. Fox is a joke, but it's influence has changed the country, in my opinion.
This kind of BO segment might seem like a joke to some, and just plain stupid to others, but to my sister in law and many like her who watch BO faithfully, it's the truth.

[Stuart G]

44. K and R...no text..

[jen1980]

45. Do you have a mirror on a site that works?

YouTube has gone full on hateful these days. They promise and promise to deliver, but they never do. They are so hateful.

[Martin Eden]

46. bookmarked for later

[bayareaboy]

49. I'm very happy with these folks...

They are going to be great citizens. I am also think that the instructor for that class did a great job for lot's of reasons.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

50. "Why do you think the President has allowed the terrorists to take over a third of Iraq?"

I would have given him such a wedgie.

[MarianJack]

51. Wow,...

...just WOW!

PEACE!

[ladywnch]

52. now they need to produce a cartoon to help fox understand the video

and they need to use smaller words

[Aerows]

77. BURN!!!

Too, true!

[Cha]

53. CODE Of VIOLATION! Perfect! Serial Distorted Perceptions! Bottom LIne?

Fox "news" is a Propganda Pusher.. nothing more. No wonder the White House didn't put "news" on their table placement cards.

Excellent.. thank you, buster and thank you Vermont High School kids! Just brilliant.. they know what's going on more than all those adult fox "truthers".

[Cha]

54. Oh and P.S. Jesse B Watters is ******* Idiot. Born for fox "news"

[JDPriestly]

58. K&R. The students said it all. Thanks.

[RiverLover]

61. So, these HS kids just proved that Fox didn't prove Vermont is full of "mindless liberals"

OK then.

[mnhtnbb]

62. That is terrific.

[BumRushDaShow]

63. "Fox News" employs no "journalists"

and their shows are "entertainment" pieces, not news.

[Pacifist Patriot]

65. Fantastic!

[Gothmog]

69. This was a great takedown of fox

[N.Y. to Paris]

73. Please help me make this go viral....

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[WhiteTara]

74. Recently the White House press office

Simply used the word "Fox" and left off the word News

[Flatulo]

76. Ever see Keith Olberman's show when it ran on MSNBC? It's no different, just comes at

things from the left instead of the right.

Keith was no journalist, and never pretended to be. He was a commentator, giving his viewers the red meat they want, just like O'Reilly does. Shit, he used to cry during his rants.

The whole news business has become a 24/7 entertainment debacle.

[busterbrown]

80. Conflating Bill O’Reilly with Keith Olberman ?

Wow... Olberman spoke to issues, and yes he was heavily slanted to the left, but I defy you to give examples of mis-truths
spoken by Olberman, as compared to the absolute bull shit lies spoken everyday by BillO.. Christ.. you wanna start with his lies about how he was a football hero at Marist College?

Take your crappy analogies somewhere else.. My God a Fox Apologist here?..

[Flatulo]

81. They're both entertainment, grist for their audiences. I prefer the BBC America and World channels.

Just the news, read by professional news readers. No right-left BS. The news doesn't have an ideology.

[sorefeet]

78. Bummer, all I hear is

the FOX guy. Every time one of the kids speaks it is mute, can't hear it. I can hear the music.

[rocktivity]

82. What cracked me up most was the scene Fox News used from Smokey and the Bandit

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because just beforehand, Jackie Gleason's character addresses a black policeman officer as "boy," and asks to speak with his sheriff. When the responds that HE the is the sheriff, Gleason winces with the agony of being squeezed between 200 years of both white supremacy and the military-based obligation to respect a uniform if not the person wearing it. "What the hell is the world coming to" when you have to treat a black person as an equal? Talk about stereotyping!


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