Fox News - funny if it wasn’t real

I have been obsessed with Fox News for about 5 years. When I came to university in 2000, I had never heard of them. However, my good friend Jimbo (Martin Farelly) and I began trawling our new Sky TV set back in 2003 for information on the forthcoming Iraq War. Indeed, we had too much time on our hands back then. Coffee mornings, 4ft fry-ups, Playstation sessions lasting days, buying 2ft sofas for Jimbo’s 3ft bedroom, abusing Alison Jones and admiring the circus freak-show that was J J Barber.

Despite studying politics at Sheffield University at the time, it was only during the Iraq debacle that I became very interested in the discipline. Sure, we had empassioned debates at home about various issues, but being exposed to the dark side of the American Right and the lies of its media arm left me stunned and desperate to learn more. It almost felt like Chris Morris had gotten hold of the Fox boss, kicked his ass and taken over and decided to things his way.

Days on end we spent open-mouthed at the madness Fox spewed; Bill O Reilly, Sean Hannity, Neil Cavuto, John Gibson and co in their “no-spin zone”. It was a revelation. And people bought it! And still do! Admittedly, we have our own issues of media spin, but is the BBC on a par with this lie machine? Even Sky News, another conservative Murdoch outlet, is reasonably unbiased.

I know it’s bad for me, but I still watch it now from time to time, just to keep abridge on what isn’t true but is being believed in America. I came across this article today; it does a great job in showing just how much this channel should be removed from the planet. Here are my favourite screencaps of the lies or mistruths it exposes:

Read the full story here.