FOX NEWS: YOU THINK THEY CAN’T GET ANY WORSE…THEN THEY DO

 

…Roger Ailes, FOX CEO

 

Forget getting an apology from FOX News…it’s not worth the effort.

Any opinion writer that respects hearing the truth should have the same distaste for the Fox Network as I have grown to have all these years.  This poor excuse of a network has continued to lose viewership, their base is still pretty much the same group of old white conservatives that support Rush Limbaugh, and their key TV “taking heads” such as Sean Hannity, Megyn Kelly and Bill O’Reilly continue to be shredded by the other legitimate media news organizations for their blatant lack of facts and honesty.

But in a recent situation at the Fox affiliate, WBFF in Baltimore, they did something so despicable that I’m surprised it hasn’t been picked up by the mainstream media and promoted across the air waves.

During a protest event in Baltimore where the police protests for the “Black Lives Matter” issue, the crowd was chanting, “We won't stop, We can't stop, 'Til killer cops, Are in cell blocks." That chant was recorded on official C-SPAN footage.  But when WBFF played back the footage on the local Fox channel, they cut the audio short.  They then announced to the viewers that the chant was: "We won't stop, We can't stop, So kill a cop."  The Gawker Media Group immediately caught the deception and quickly made it known to the public.

The Baltimore Fox station eventually had to apologize to the key “Black Lives Matter” protester, Tawanda Jones, whose brother, Tyrone West, had "mysteriously" died in police custody in 2013.  But the station only apologized after they were busted for deceptively editing the protest chant.

A Fox Facebook post had claimed that the station’s engineers had misheard what the protesters were chanting and called it an “honest misunderstanding.”

But Ms. Jones is highly skeptical.  "The interesting part that really gets to me is, where they edited and stopped it — like, how could that be a mistake?" she said.

"Once you play that whole thing, you would know that's not what's being said," she added.

But as is usual, an apology from Fox is about the same as finding a fly swimming in your soup.  It is seldom elicits a positive response.

In typical “Fox Fashion”, the apology was basically their just saying “our bad,” and then moving on still implying that it was an honest mistake.

Back when the current Fox channel was first envisioned by Roger Ailes, which was during the Nixon era, it was then supposed to be known as the “GOP Channel”.  The reality is that it has become the “GOP Channel gone very bad”.

Mr. Ailes should now apologize to the American public for what his so-called “Faux news channel” has truly become.

Copyright G.Ater  2015