Fox News Officially Freaking Out About Google’s Plan To Rank Sites By ‘Accuracy’ (VIDEO)

[ashling]

http://www.addictinginfo.org/2015/03/07/fox-news-officially-freaking-out-about-googles-plan-to-rank-sites-by-accuracy-video/

All of this plays into a recurring nightmare constantly running through the heads of conservatives. Their detachment from reality, whether it be regarding climate change or tax cuts, is constantly coming under threat from inconvenient facts emerging in the real world. Many of their ideas have very weak foundations and if suddenly their websites – Fox News’ included – were subject to the expectation of being verifiably true, it’s understandably frightening.

Add to that the common belief that “mainstream” media/culture/science is firmly in the liberal camp, and it’s easy to see how some conservatives may worry that Google’s database of “facts” would be skewed against them. Unable to resist putting too fine a point on it, the Fox segment specifically cites the fact that websites that claim President Obama was born in Kenya would be sunk with this new system.

I was looking in the dictionary at the various connotations of engage and found this one:

14. to cross weapons; enter into conflict:
"The armies engaged early in the morning."

Their example could easily be "Fox News engaged reality ... and reality won."

reality is not a concept with which they want to engage,

[BubbaFett]

1. It's been that way for about

two years.

Looks like a media intern stumbled on a Matt Cutts article from 2 years ago.

[think]

2. Faux News has good reason to be concerned /nt

[underpants]

3. “Let the public decide what’s the truth,” Morano tells a Fox reporter.

The Fox reporter ends with "whoever controls the truth controls the world"

Anchor babe "yes that's scary to think about"

[ffr]

4. Tabloids will always have their niche

And so will Fox Entertainment. It does only matter what the viewers want the truth to be. Between the two, it's a symbiotic relationship. Until the money runs out, anyway.

[Fred Sanders]

5. Superstition is the preferred science at fact denying extremist Fox. Kudos to Google, fuck Fox.

Fox is a cancer on science and truth.

[Blanks]

6. I used to work with an old guy that told this joke...

The mob was interviewing accountants. They had several candidates with excellent résumés, but they weren't having any luck finding the 'right' person.

Then an applicant came in and they started the interview with the same question that they asked the other perspective employees: "What is two plus two". The accountant looked at the man across the desk, got up, pulled the shades closed and asked "what do you want it to be".

That's the model Fox News uses to get to "the truth".