People are tired of the lies and deceit of Fox News. The right-wing propaganda mill that has been rated truthful only 11% of the time has managed to dominate the cable news ratings without offering a shred of anything newsworthy for years.
Rodney Latstetter of Caledonia, IL has decided he’s had enough. His idea, to bring the concerns of Americans tired of hearing the rhetoric to the FCC, has sparked a petition on Change.org that everyone opposed to deception reported as news should read and sign.
The petition states:
We feel that Fox News does and willfully distort (sic) the news in a manner detrimental to the United States and it’s (sic) citizens and is done with malice aforethought .
This isn’t a simple petition stating “we don’t like Fox News,” it’s a well thought out and articulate message to the FCC that not only does Fox broadcast lies with malice aforethought, it breaks several rules laid out by the FCC for broadcast journalism:
- Hoaxes - The broadcast by a station of false information concerning a crime or catastrophe violates the FCC’s rules if the station licensee knew that the information was false, broadcasting the false information directly causes substantial public harm, and it was foreseeable that broadcasting the false information would cause such harm.
Months after both the House and Senate cleared the Obama administration of any wrongdoing or deceit over Benghazi, Fox still regularly fills space with more conspiracy theories and lies about the incident, often times referring to specific talking points refuted by the GOP-led congress’ own reports.
- News Distortion - The Commission often receives complaints concerning broadcast journalism, such as allegations that stations have aired inaccurate or one-sided news reports or comments, covered stories inadequately, or overly dramatized the events that they cover. For the reasons noted above, the Commission generally will not intervene in such cases because it would be inconsistent with the First Amendment to replace the journalistic judgment of licensees with our own. However, as public trustees, broadcast licensees may not intentionally distort the news.
There are far too many instances of Fox distorting the news to mention. It’s a daily occurrence.
Many will wonder if such a petition could possibly do any good. The answer is yes. The White House will review any petition that receives 100,000 signatures, and the FCC falls under the purview of the Executive Branch.
Change.org petitions were successful in reversing a decision by Verizon to turn off the phones of abuse victims due to lack of payment and responsible for the first female moderator in a Presidential debate in over 20 years.
The petition may work, or it may not. For me, it felt good to sign it one way or the other.
Sign the petition to have Fox News’ broadcast license revoked HERE
H/T: Change.org | Image: Charles Topher
Petitions can be edited. I will NOT sign and circulate this one until the lazy author gets around to proofreading it. If you want to be taken seriously, present your case articulately.
Well stated … Thanks!
You’ve got a very good point but don’t muck up the works on this important petition. It still needs to be signed. I am hoping there is a way to retroactively correct wording errors but that may not be legal and would jeopardize the petition completely. Is there any way to contact the petitionee?
“This isn’t a simple petition stating “we don’t like Fox News,” it’s a well thought out and articulate message to the FCC…” It may be well thought out, but it sure is not articulate. Use correct grammar and punctuation, and I’ll sign and share.
I take it we should repost the commandment quotes on facebook that leads to this article, “Thou shalt not bear false witness”, and complain that Faux Entertainment is doing just that, which breaks the very rules they so cherish as a christian run organization.
They’re not a Christian run organization. They are a wealthy elite organization that poses as having religious backing in order to gain the support of the masses.
If they were actually a Christian organization, they would be espousing charity to the poor, forgiveness towards our enemies, respect for the President (1 Peter 2:17), and all around be a much better force of good for the world.
The views espoused by this group are pretty much the exact opposite of those of a Christian organization.
Religion used as a tool for the fools
No food for you no shelter for you and damn sure no Obamacare for you JWJWD
Religion and Government are Intertwined - Governments in fascist nations tend to use the most common religion in the nation as a tool to manipulate public opinion. Religious rhetoric and terminology is common from government leaders, even when the major tenets of the religion are diametrically opposed to the government’s policies or actions.
Half-truths and whole lies more than 80% of the time. That’s Fox Noise for you.
There are numerous programs and hosts. Which ones are you speaking to?
the entire channels programing
You don’t watch then do you?
No, I’ve seen it, and seen how slanted they are, and how they move their message regardless of the story or facts.
I’ve seen their Sunday morning shows where they gang up on any Democrat, shouting them down with 3 on 1, and IF he gets a word out, they attack that after the guest has left. OH’Really, Hannity and the rest are just as bad, and they should be following in NBC’s footsteps and suspending themselves for their falsehoods, like Brian Williams. His were embellishments, while theirs are total falsehoods used to create a narrative.
You do know that Wallace is a registered democrat? And apparently you never watched Jim Russell on MTP. You just don’t like your fellow dem pols exposed.
I speak of the network as a whole.
What a load of nonsense. So what’s credible for you Liberals out there? CNN? MSNBC? Pleeaassee… As an American living outside the UK for 30+ years, I have come to realise that most of the Liberal media operate as a propaganda mill for Democrat Party and Barry Soetoro/Obama’s Administration. Fox News provides a valuable source of news as an alternative to the nonsense foisted upon the American people by this government. But if you really want truth you need to consider media sources outside the US. Then you understand what other people are saying about America and its current leadership.
Reliable is in Spiegel English, U.S. Editions of the BBC News, and the Guardian or do you mean reliable in your narrow sense of the word as defined by your political views? I, personally, find the news segments on MSNBC very factual and unbiased the commentary is definitely very liberal, but the NEWS is straight forward. Spiegel English, BBC News and the Guardian all have great unbiased news coverage as well.
Oh look! A troll!
And a dumb one at that!
Isn’t is amazing how Liberals can only name-call; instead say, for example, present a position based on fact? Calling me names does not elevate you, it makes you appear as a … a … Liberal. In other words, a Communist and someone currently set on destroying the United States.
Not only did you not present any facts, but you are too dumb to realize that “liberal” isn’t a proper noun.
You’re also too dumb to tell a liberal from a Communist. That’s hilarious.
Actually it is a ‘proper noun’ as you say, because I use it as an expletive. It is a noun that is interchangeable with Communist.
Your stupidity of political science is matched only by your poor knowledge of grammar. So how many times were you held back in high school?
That’s it huh? You’re intent on proving my point? OK, go on then, show me how Liberals think.
You can’t even tell a liberal from a Communist. You’re a moron.
Actually, there isn’t a difference. The old Reds are the new
Greens and just like a watermelon that’s Green on the outside and Red on the inside, so is today’s Liberal. Most Liberals, perhaps even you, don’t even understand that what you support today is a policy that has already been done by the Communists and guess what? It failed then and it will again.
Well, since you are such a genius, can you explain how it is that every possible economic measurement has improved dramatically, and you and the right see that as “the destruction of America”? It seems to follow the same logic as Bush “keeping us safe”, while witnessing the worst attack on US soil in our history. You know, TOTAL and COMPLETE opposites.
It’s amazing how there are still sheeple following the owrds of hate-filled liars. Get a brain and begin to research yourself. Do not take Fox pablum as the “Truth” of the world.
I really want to know the truth. Can you give me a reliable source that is based on real unbiased facts to support your comments???
You post this on every statement. I assume you have the intelligence to look it up on your own and are just being a run of the mill troll.
I already tried to find a reliable source and could not find any. Thank you for showing the rest of the the liberals how to attack someone personally for asking a question that maybe opposed to your point of view. Real classy!
Thanks! I try!
I have the intelligence to know there are not any unbiased reports that any of you can share with me. Just more screaming without real proof.
who killed the Fairness Doctrine that said news had to be FAIR AND BALANCE?
Troll we await you answer.
How do you get Control of the media
KILL FAIRNESS DOCTRINE that is how.
Controlled Mass Media - Sometimes to media is directly controlled by the government, but in other cases, the media is indirectly controlled by government regulation, or sympathetic media spokespeople and executives. Censorship, especially in war time, is very common.
It is amazing how you seem like a nice guy but are totally uninformed, parrot what conservative news states, attack all others just not like you, are unwilling to have a logical debate who uses words loaded with BS that could actually be a good thing for this country. Take Communism in its pure form. Jesus was a Communist or a socialist yet you despise these people…well you despise most anyway which is evident in your style of writing. And you appear to be unwilling to think, read, and discuss but just babble on. No one is really listening to you nonsense anymore. We have heard the stupidity dripping from the mouths of the unenlightened. What a sorry human you are. You must be a very unhappy little boy.
Yes, please attack him personally, so that everyone can see how to treat someone that shares a difference of opinion.
He attacked all liberals personally repeatedly.
It’s typical of conservatives to apply rules to others that they don’t apply to themselves.
Rick, Please stop embarrassing yourself.
Another personal attack from a guy whining about personal attacks.
It’s not personal, just an observation that happens to be true.
Says the wingnut trolling the place.
6 people sorry Corporations with souls and morals own them all
Liberal media none of them are.
FOX news provides and “alternate universe” for the right to congregate and fomate their next propaganda scheme. They are WRONG 82% of the time. Good luck with that “news”.
Truth matters, and numerous studies have shown us, as if we didn’t know already from personal observation that FOX and truth are polar opposites, and partisan propaganda is their sole product.
How you arrive at FOX being a “valuable source of news” is beyond me, when they have been rated as the least accurate reporting source available on television. WHY would you seek out a source with an 18% rating on accuracy and truth? When every other source of news is rated as more accurate than FOX, you have to be an ideological joiner to use them as the source for news, pure and simple.
And as for what “other people” think about America has only improved since the election of 2008. And the very term “other people” is a useful dodge by those at FOX, for when they don’t have an actual source, but wish to pretend they do.
I ‘ll sign it when you re-read Pastor Niemöller.
who killed the FAIRNESS DOCTRINE
the Fascist Reagan that is who it started way before this.
Fox News has blatantly and continually disregarded even the most basic fundamental principles of journalism, with the intent of maliciously manipulating public opinion and policy.
Since the FCC has clearly stated that “rigging or slanting the news is a most heinous act against the public interest,” the Commission bears both a moral and legal obligation to protect that very same public interest by preventing Fox News from being able to continue their travesty of ‘news’ by de-licensing them, and de-licensing them permanently!
Take a look at the Liberals media then; none are more slanted and biased than CNN, MSNBC, et al.
While you may FEEL so, it would be in your interest to compare the accuracy of their programing as compared to FOX. BOTH rank far more accurate than FOX, consistently, and truth matters. And you are WRONG, neither of those networks is more biased than FOX, nor wrong nearly as much.
I really want to know the truth. Can you give me a reliable source that is based on real unbiased facts to support your comments?
You are not going to get reliable sourcing David. Their opinions have been fed to them by the jealous weenies on the other news outlets who are getting their butts kicked nightly by FOX.
Yes I know. I was just tired of hearing this about Fox News without any real evidence. I’m really surprised that they have not attacked me for asking the question.
David, have you not seen the multitude of studies that ALL conclude that FOX news is the least accurate of all news outlets on earth? One study found that people that watched NO news broadcasts at all, were better and more accurately informed than were FOX viewers? Others have just recently been released showing FOX was the lowest rating in accuracy of all networks, with an accuracy rating of 18%. That means 82% of the time, they are selling a lie, distortion or misconception about a story. I mean it’s nice to be loyal to your source, but, AFTER you see they are blowing smoke most of the time you really don’t look wise to defend their product as “the most accurate”. Unless of course you are using the same logic as the Bush admin, telling us “they kept us safe”, after suffering the worst attack on US soil ever. Is that the deal? Exact opposite speak?
Now you understand why the right is so quick to just go postal on Brian Williams for embellishing an anecdote about a story he reported. Let’s be careful what we take away from this. Did he change the report regarding its mission, or the reality that it happened? No. He merely made it more exciting about HIM, by suggesting the copter he was in, was the target hit in the flight of helos his was part of. The event happened as he reported, A HELO was hit, as he reported, and the event did happen, as he reported, until he put himself in that one plane, that he was not. I can live with personal embellishment far more often and quickly than I can accept factual errors by design, and spin changing messages 180 degrees, or fake video reported as fact from a known partisan such as Brietbart/OKeefe. FOX viewers likely to this day think that ACORN is a criminal organization, proven to be so, when truth is NO ETHICAL OR LEGAL violations were discovered in any of the multitude of investigations into that group. OR, the number of people convinced by the right wing media that Obama was not born on US soil, which GREW, even AFTER proof of his citizenship was released and verified by national and state officials from both parties. This is telling you, FOX has convinced people of the OPPOSITE of the truth, and even AFTER seeing evidence to support the truth, FOX has chosen to continue supporting the lie. NBC not only suspended the man they found had misinformed the public on their air time, but HE suspended himself before they could act. FOX on the other hand, has had most ALL their on air “talent” caught in gross exaggeration, distortion or misinformation entirely, on the record, and not a single one has been reprimanded in any way. Not only that, but, the network continues to pretend they are the truth, the ONLY truth, and nothing but the truth, despite the opposite being a more accurate account.
‘Liberal media’ is a myth; the fact is that ALL the various media outlets are owned by corporations, ALL of which are right-leaning!
That being said, there’s a BIG difference between Fox News and the other broadcast media! CNN and MSNBC may be slanted, but they DO NOT indulge in outright LIES!
Fox News does, and they’ve done so for their ENTIRE existence!
Compare NBC’s Brian Williams with Fox’s Bill O’Rielly. Williams SLIGHTLY exaggerated a story that he was part of (he was in a flight of 4 helicopters in Afghanistan, and the one ahead of him was hit by enemy fire, instead of the on he was on), and he was suspended. O’Rielly outright LIED about being in a combat zone in Argentina; Fox has NO problem with that!
Quite frankly, journalistic integrity is NON-EXISTENT at Fox News!
ALL broadcasters are required to ‘serve the public interest’; to that end, a NEWS organization is required to follow proper journalistic ethics.
Again, Fox News DOESN’T!
It doesn’t really make a damn bit of difference here what other news organizations do; ‘everybody else does it’ IS NOT an excuse for REFUSING to be ethical!
Really thanks to St Reagan Killing the fairness doctrine.
we now have 6 media outlets owned by Corporations those People with souls and morals they defend in courts and calm will have to in heaven.
Can you give me a reliable source that is based on real unbiased facts to support your comments?
David, you are terribly whiney. Do you have a nasally voice? Can you give me a reliable source that is based on real unbiased facts to support your answer?
Thank you for showing the rest of the the liberals how to attack someone personally for asking a question that maybe opposed to your point of view. Real classy.
If that were true then you would have to hold ABC, NBC, CBS, MSNBC and CNN acountable also. Lets not forget all the lies they tell each and everyday along with not reporting news that does not contribute to their agenda.
There should also be a petition asking the FTC, who handles false and deceptive advertising, to force Fox to remove the word “News” from it’s name.
Yes, this is at least intellectually coherent. It would do well, however, for a sponsor of such a petition to have a more detailed understanding of the legal predicates involved.
Agree 100%!! It SHOULD be “Fox Opinions.” NOT news.
And no one on MSNBC, The PBS News Hour or CNN shares opinions?
Apparently, you don’t watch any of those networks.
You know Msnbc was 85 percent opinion vs fox at 54 percent. Read pew study. So you asking Msnbc to change their name? Doubt it
I’m pretty sure I’m correct on this: Fox News is a cable channel and therefore does not need a license from the FCC in order to broadcast. Only over-the-air channels need an FCC license. This is because the federal government owns the airwaves. A television station that wants to broadcast over the air must therefore obtain a license from the government (FCC) to use those airwaves.
In contrast, the cables and satellites used to broadcast over a cable channel, such as Fox News, are privately owned. Thus the government has no ability to grant a license to a cable channel, since one can’t grant a license to something one doesn’t own. And, more pertinent to this “petition,” it cannot revoke a license that it has not granted.
I fear this “petition” is not only grammatically problematic, but factually problematic in its premise as well.
(Btw, I am as utterly disgusted with the toxic propaganda spewed by Fox News as anyone.)
I fully support the idea of this petition but unfortunately the FCC does not actually have any authority over cable channels. They only have authority over the traditional over-the-air broadcast channels.
I hear you but am curious why the FCC would bother with a petition that holds no cout. What gives?
Its not a petition from the FCC, its one of those generic “any idiot with 5 minutes to spare can make a petition about anything they want” petitions.
You could start a petition on there to have the President come clip your toenails for you. It isn’t binding in any way, and serves as nothing more than a very vague gauge of public interest in an idea.
Thank you, Christopher, for taking the time to reply and educate. I do appreciate it.
Trying to shut down news agencies you disagree with is FASCISM
At minimum it is authoritarian in the extreme. That is why the petition being floated around here to shut down fox news is so asinine. I like fox news, but others are perfectly capable of simply not watching fox news. The right has just as much right to put out their message as the left does, that is how a free society works.
What really amazes me is that some people here think that this would be viewed as anything but a tyrannical overreach by the federal government to silence critics. If the FCC did this tomorrow, the democratic party would essentially cease to exist as a political entity in the next election. We’d be viewed as tyrants and censors for shutting down the main opposition news hub. Nearly every news paper, website or channel would be howling about the dictatorial overreach, left and right. Any reasonable person not absolutely choking on partisan fervor should be able understand that.
The F (Fascism) word gets thrown around a lot in politics, but this would be actual down to the bone fascism.
“Once a government is committed to the principle of silencing the voice of opposition, it has only one way to go, and that is down the path of increasingly repressive measures, until it becomes a source of terror to all its citizens and creates a country where everyone lives in fear.”
-Harry S. Truman
Fascism definition:
A governmental system led by a dictator having complete power, forcibly suppressing opposition and criticism, regimenting all industry, commerce, etc., and emphasizing an aggressive nationalism and often racism.
News agencies have a mandate to report the truth. Fox News does not do that, as clearly evidenced by even cursory fact checking.
I really want to know the truth. Can you give me a reliable source that is based on real unbiased facts to support your comments??
There is no single place you can go to for the entire truth. You need to look at multiple sources to get a whole picture of what is going on. Anyone sticking to a single source is just going to be living in an echo chamber.
I understand, however there should be something out there that can be seen as fact and not just because a bunch of liberals say so. I do want to know the truth and if the truth shows that Fox has been wrong, then I will admit it. Frankly, I believe all networks slant the news to their side, which ever side they favor.
David, I would also suggest you evaluate the sources. When ONE is consistently wrong, or at minimum distorting the news, and for the sake of legality, cannot refer to their programming as “News” and instead have to call it “entertainment” to protect themselves from legal challenge on their opinion being passed as news reporting, you must devalue their product as a source. This doesn’t seem to happen, because FOX continually presents everything from a right wing view, which is manna from heaven to their viewers that want to see things as depicted on FOX. It is like “Make a Wish” for the right wing, 24/7 on their network.
Sorry, but when you say consistantily wrong and they are distorting the news, but what are you basing your comment on? Can you give me some research that supports your claim or is this just your opinion? I have watched Fox and the other networks and do not believe they are distorting the news anymore than the other networks distort to the left
I personally watched both Cheney and Rumsfeld tell us about WMD’s and then later go onto FOX and try to tell us they had NOT said such a thing. I’ve watched them gang up and shout down guests that attempted to discuss anything from a liberal point of view, with 3 conservatives preventing such speech being heard on FOX, and if they manage to make a point, it is derided and discredited when the guest is gone.
I’ve seen FOX tell us that WMD’s WERE found in Iraq, when no such thing is true. They did find old defunct and damaged remnants, but NOTHING of the sort described by the Bush war machine, such as nuclear weapons that could be used within 45 minutes, poison gas rings around Baghdad etc.
This is just the tip of the iceberg, when they have a daily dose of Obama “scandals”, or how Obama is “destroying America” by returning our economy to a steady level and NOT invading nations randomly.
The GOP is a FASCIST movement that DESTROYED our media in the 1980s with killing the Fairness Doctrine because St Fascist Reagan was getting killed on the nightly news.
Reagan’s Morning in America became the Mourning of America.
Powerful and Continuing Nationalism Reagan communicated to Americans after the failure of Vietnam Nixon and the mess left to Carter by the GOP Nixon…….that we are EXCEPTIONAl they love those Mottos In god We Trust, One Nation under God all wrapped in a Chinese made flag they bought a non Union walmart as they clinging to their bible and guns.
Disdain for the Recognition of Human Rights The Party gave us torture back and GITMO mandatory sentences for pot possession thank the failed GOP Fascsit drug war and War on Terror.
THE PARTY has their scapegoats they have a list of them. How the southern strategy has worked for them for the last 30 plus years now. Blame and project what you are actually doing on that scapegoat.
Supremacy of the Military …THE PARTY claims we are broke but always seem to find the money for WAR BUDGETS.
RAMPANT SEXISM …THE PARTY has a war on woman and gays .
THE PARTY has their own propaganda news FOX NEWSPEAK were they make the lies BIG repeat them often the other 5 corporate media pick it up it becomes truth in the eyes of the people
THE PARTY’S Obsession with National Security gave us the Patriot act and NSA the rights to spy on us. First they went after them muslims most Americans did not care yet they were always spying on us.
THE PARTY courted the religious right now they act against the basic tenets of that religion. No food for you no shelter for you and damn sure no health ace for you……….Compassionate christians now say you can do it we will give you moral support and pray that you do.
THE PARTY Protects that CORPORATE POWER .ALWAYS
THE PARTY started union busting during the days of ST FASCIST REAGAN and 1984 came right on time.
THE PARTY has a Distain for the educated and why THE PARTY is trying to destroy education with their Christian reconstruction creation bull.
THE PARTY’S Obsession with crime and punishment gave us the drug war 3 strikes laws mandatory sentences and our shoot first laws.
Rampant Cronyism and Corruption right wing social engineering judges to make it so for them
And how can we forget THE PARTY STEALING of elections and suppressing the votes and selling arms to Iran to hold those hostage just a few more days.
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Feel better?
I do, having that all there in black and white. Can’t find fault with it beyond a few typos.
I do agree that to suspend or revoke the license of Fox would be seen by the citizenry as an assault on the 1st amendment and would do irreparable harm to the Democratic Party. However, it should be labeled for what it is, entertainment.
Murdoch broke the company apart to slither out from under the law suits that were pending in the UK for the wiretapping laws he broke. In doing so Fox was labeled an Entertainment Broadcast but still uses the News in their advertising. As an entertainment industry or broadcaster they can pretty much say anything they want with impunity. No different than tabloid news rags claiming Elvis is still alive and living in Reno.
The answer is to expose them at every turn and to demand Legislation that would bring back the Fairness Rule.
But, it is not a news agency. It is mere opinion which does not fit the definition of a news agency.
Fox reports the news on the hour and the half hour. The rest is analysis and opinion.
Their biased opinion of the news and ignore important happenings that are not in their conservative interest. Faceit, It will always be the laughing stock of the world.
However you justify it in your head, they are the lead in cable news.
POPULAR, does not make it truth. When they represent the GOP in all their opinions and twist news events to get a preferred result to report, and they name their network “news”, while calling it entertainment to avoid journalistic ethics, they are defrauding the world with their programming. Millions will say FOX is the only real news, when even FOX calls their stuff entertainment. See a problem with that? IF YOU think it is news, and they use NEWS in their name, while then NOT referring to themselves as news legally, they have you believing a fantasy in their very existence. The thing that needs to happen is that they be held to journalistic accountability. That would mean about 3/4 of their new readers would have to be suspended for misinforming the public on a long string of stories misrepresented on air.
Well with the few haters of Fox these are the latest polls I could find.
January 2014 marked Fox News’s 145th consecutive month as the number one rated cable news channel. During that month, Fox News beat CNN and MSNBC combined in overall viewers in both prime time hours and the total day.] In the third quarter of 2014, the network was the most-watched cable channel during prime time hours.
During the final week of the campaign for the United States elections, 2014, Fox News had the highest ratings of any cable channel, news or otherwise. On election night itself, Fox News’ coverage had higher ratings than that of any of the other five cable or network news sources among viewers between 25 and 54 years of age.
I mainly watch the commentaries on FNN but
as I previously stated if you don’t like them anyone can changer the channel.
Patricia, FOX is essentially a GOP dept and so the GOP feeds at that trough in unison. All the other networks are left with all the rest of the populace splitting their choices among the remaining networks. There IS no Democratic network for them to all watch to get all Dem news all the time. So my recommendation to you is stop counting the VIEWERS and start looking at the content, and the LACK OF ACCURACY in their content. It is NOT just one source coming to this conclusion. It has been numerous studies and I’ve seen it myself in their partisan “reporting”. At 18% rating of accuracy, you are getting the LEAST accurate news of any network. While you LIKE what they report, it is NOT accurate, and especially biased in near every report. I won’t try to tell you which network is most accurate, but seeking out reports from as many other sources as possible will fill in the facts as they are, and then you can compare the odd angle FOX adds to those facts to create a positive GOP spin. Read the Logan act, and then see how FOX cheers for the act of the Senate in violation of that clearly laid out law.
Well said Patricia!
Anyone signing this petition should truly reflect on what they have done, least they become the voice of dissent that gets silenced.
If you are a voice of dissent that gets silence from something like this, it means your “dissent” was bold faced lies, and you deserve to be silenced.
You don’t even understand the ramifications of your threat. It’s a shame that modern liberalism has become so intolerant of any other point of view…
On the contrary, I’m not even a liberal, I’m an independent centrist. But if you are incapable of making your point without bold faced lying, then your point is not worth making.
And what makes you the authority on truth, or who deserves to be silenced? I would expect such declarations from ISIS, not an “independent centrist.”
How about we start with the non-partisan profession fact checkers at http://www.politifact .c om/punditfact/tv/fox/ ?
Outside of CNN, none of the major outlets appeared to do all that well. That does not serve as justification for silencing Fox News, nor does it grant the authority on truth, or who should be able to offer commentary, though it may serve as a basis on which you consider the trustworthiness of such commentary. I personally find the “TRUTH-O-METER” biased to the left too often.
Silencing a press who’s “truths” we disagree with is a very dangerous path.
Unless the law has changed the FCC has zero authority over cable TV broadcasts. That’s why the Walking Dead can show gore and use the “seven words” with inpunity.
No doubt this was started by Kim Jong-un
please, can someone give me a real example of FOX lies that I can verify. I really value your opinions, but without proof, then your just blowing steam.
As I read this I couldn’t tell whether it was an Onion spoof or excerpts from a teenage girl’s dream journal. Either way it shows a childlike understanding of the limited power the FCC has over cable as well as a lack of even a basic understanding of the First Amendment. Seriously, does the author honestly think that the millions of Fox News viewers are going to sit back and allow the government to restrict in any way the free speech of the cable network? Laughable. I have an idea, if you don’t like what Fox News reports, hold your hands over your ears and chant LA-LA-LA-LA until snack time.
People, please do some basic research. I detest Fox News as much as the next sentient being, but they are a cable channel. They neither need nor have a license to broadcast as they are not using the public airwaves, i.e., broadcasting. This is a complete and utter easte of your time and only gives the other side ammo to show that opponents of Fox News don’t know what they are talking about.
Jeesh. Edit the petition and resubmit it.
Obama won’t do this. It would be a political nightmare if he did.
Obama can’t do it anyway and the FCC has zero jurisdiction over this. Zero. Zip. Nada. Zilch. This is a waste of time and just makes the drafter of the petition look uninformed and provides fuel for those who criticize the left. For the love of God, people do some research first.
Thank you for your intelligent response. I will look up and Google
it. Classy response
Fox is laughing at you all with your stupid petition.
Here’s the deal. Fox News is not any worse than the other
networks. They are slanted right, just like the others are slanted left. What has gotten liberals all worked up is that Fox has an opposing view to their belief system and that stands out. When the others news organizations report
left leaning news, liberals overlook it, because the news organizations are agreeing with liberals belief system. Now that I have explained this, maybe you will understand that this petition has no chance of shutting the Fox Network down.
You are WRONG, we oppose falsehoods and distortions passed off as “news” on FOX. Nothing more. Their opinions are theirs to hold, but under the guise of news it’s a violation of the trust extended for their license. With an accuracy of 18%, which is half that of the next lowest accuracy recorded by the runner up , any thinking person would flee in horror, but, when they support the wishful beliefs of those on the right, they get great ratings by feeding them the pablum they so crave. Keep in mind, the right believes that Bush “kept us safe” while suffering the worst attack on US soil, and then lost another 4500 in Iraq, when we didn’t NEED to go there, and the right also now believes that “restoring the US economy to near previous vigor, and record stock prices” equates to the “destruction of America”. Other than being exactly the opposite of reality, it makes for great fodder for the FOX viewers wishful thinking.
So, back to your first point, FOX is, by measured studies, the worst. Not the same, not almost the same, but, measurably the WORST.
Yes, I have heard your screams about Fox news being inaccurate. I have not seen any unbiased research that supports your claims. Can you give me a source that show 18% accuracy? As for us going to Iraq I am one of the few that support that decision and was happy to see Sadam removed from power. I am still open looking at real proof that Fox news is the worst, just show me proof.
Good comment except the part where FOX stays pretty close to reality. NOT much Toby. They came in with the lowest rate of accuracy at 18%, and the next LOWEST rating was twice as high.
My favorite is how they had both Cheney and Rumsfeld on to explain how they “never told us Iraq had WMD’s” despite at least 4 appearances on Sunday morning pundit shows have them doing EXACTLY that. The point is, the FOX faithful will believe THEIR FOX appearance and never bother seeking the truth that they are lying out their ears.
Petitions are for the lazy.
If you really want the FCC to take action, then file a formal request with the FCC. Petitions can be ignored, and they will ignore this one. Why? Because Fox News is a CABLE channel, it doesn’t use airwaves, and thus, FNC has no broadcast licenses for the FCC to revoke.
The FCC has no jurisdiction over cable news channels. The broadcast licenses referred to in this petition are for local Fox affiliates that broadcast daily soap operas and kids cartoons on Saturday mornings. Most local Fox affiliates have nothing to do with FNC the cable channel.
The petitioner should educate himself before writing such nonsense.
Fox News is a cable channel. Cable channels do not have broadcast licenses. Fail.
for you folks defending Faux “News.” Canada will not allow them to broadcast as Fox “News.” The reason? Because they determined that they do not present “news.” They will allow them to broadcast as Fox Entertainment. But not as news. What does that tell you? Along with all the other studies showing only 11 to 18 percent accuracy, don’t you think you should be questioning their validity a little closer? Or are you an ostrich?
lol, you fools are so pissy that someone does get on their knees and worship the democratic party…. what a joke. You are morons, and the person who created the petition is a moron.
This is just another example of how the left is afraid of divergent opinions. I watch MSNBC, ABS, CBS, and Fox in equal amounts. Every network reports breaking news and every network has its editorials, or slant. We encounter distortions in the media every day by all of the major networks. Fox is not unique or above the others. Be clear on what you don’t like.
Fox must be doing something right if Obama doesn’t like them. And the Benghazi story is far from over. Clinton’s lies about it are becoming out as a result of her email scandal. The initial report by Congress was a white wash. Why do you think a special committee was later established headed by Gowdy. Thanks to Fox the truth will come out. The author of this petition is nothing more than an Obama minion.
This site is a laughing stock. And block people w differing views. How is that petition working out for you. Take Msnbc w you……