Fox News’ Megyn Kelly may have just now stumbled upon a new tag line for Fox News (“Fair and Balanced” has had a good run) or any cable news channel, for that matter (that whole “The Place For This” or “The Best Team For That” stuff isn’t aging well).
“Who are we to say it’s not the truth?” is how Kelly just concluded what might be the Best. Cable. Segment. Ever. (This week, at least.)
The segment was an interview with a man “known as The Big Foot Hunter” who claims “Sasquatch’s remains” have been found in the woods in Georgia and offered Fox viewers photograph proof (some kind of lifeless, hairy ape-like thing in a plastic cooler — “the Sasquatch on ice,” Kelly ventured) which shared screen time on Fox with Fox’s “File” footage of “Big Foot” lumbering along a mountain, as the following “Fox Facts” flashed on the bottom of the screen:
Big Foot Said to Inhabit Remote Forest Areas
Big Foot Sometimes Described as Large, Hairy, Bipedal Hominoid
Big Foot Described as Being Btwn 6-10 feet Tall
Most Experts Consider Big Foot To Be Combo of Folklore, Hoaxes
Hey, who is a cable news reporter to say it’s not the truth?
“Who Are We To Say It’s Not The Truth?”
Hey, it works for the NYT!
Recall the grave questions about John McCain's marital fidelity.
I could on, but even the fine folks at CJR surely get the point.
For every potential Fox faux pas, there are an equal if not greater number of similar stumbles in virtually every other MSM outlet- even in the pages of this much vaunted magazine.
I do wonder what makes Fox so deserving of special attention. Perhaps an explanation is in order.
Posted by Reality Fungus on Wed 13 Aug 2008 at 12:48 PM
Hey, who is a cable news reporter to say it’s not the truth?
WOW! A journalist from CJR making fun of Fox for issues of impartiality or factuality; that’s rich!
Posted by TDC on Wed 13 Aug 2008 at 12:54 PM
Wow. Defending Fox even over a Big Foot segment.
I tip my hat to you guys.
Posted by Circusboy on Wed 13 Aug 2008 at 08:08 PM
I like FOX News.
Posted by Curtis on Thu 14 Aug 2008 at 03:48 AM
Reality Fungus, hilariously says: "Recall the grave questions about John McCain's marital fidelity."
Good point, because, statistically speaking the number of men who cheat on their wives (including McCain who admitted to doing so) is exactly equivalent to the number of sasquatch known to exist. Thus, accepting a report of a hairy corpse as being a big foot with a journalistic shrug is acceptable.
As for your remark: "For every potential Fox faux pas, there are an equal if not greater number of similar stumbles in virtually every other MSM outlet" I'd simply like to point out that other MSM outlets report on a variety of news, and are bound to get some things wrong. FOX only concentrates on a select set of stories. The expectation that if you're going to specialize you should do it correctly is not out of bounds.
Posted by B8ovin on Thu 14 Aug 2008 at 06:19 PM
unlike CNN, FOX-TV has NO science reporters.
Why should its angry young white guy viewership care about the mysteries of time & space?
they get all their science knowledge from Genesis
Posted by Ray on Tue 26 Aug 2008 at 04:14 PM