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Originally Posted by jdandns
Here's a couple of this month's whoppers, but they've been doing this for years now. This is news in the same way WWE is a competitive sport.
During the immediate unrest following the death of of George Floyd, OANN reporter Jack Posobiec claimed that there were pipe bombs planted at the Korean War Memorial in Washington D.C. with "federal assets in pursuit of those responsible". Both assertions were false.
More recently, OANN "journalist" Kristian Rouz claimed 75 year old protester Martin Gugino, who suffered a severe injury after hitting his head on the sidewalk "was attempting to capture the radio communications signature of Buffalo police officers". Additionally without evidence, OANN linked the injured man to the Antifa movement, which insanely, President Trump picked up on later so as to post a tweet alleging the Gugino "could be an ANTIFA provocateur". Rouz' source for this nonsense was The Conservative Treehouse, a right-wing blog.
OANN therefore has zero value as news, but as for the people saying FoxNews, CNN, etc., don't either, that isn't exactly true. Their actual news reports contain useful verified information that was acquired via their vast resources, and vetted thoroughly, precisely because all they stand to lose by presenting unverified information as genuine news.
Where they go awry is with the commentary/discussion portions of the telecasts that follow the delivery of the hard news. Here's is where the bias sets in as a result of the partisanship of the hosts and invited guests engaged in that discussion, that makeup determined by the network. Most hour-long shows on the 24 hour news networks do contain about 15 minutes worth of reliable, objective information. The problem is that there are a great many people watching who can't tell the difference between an op-ed commentary and journalistic endeavors, and that is seized on by the network executives to advance their own agendas.
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That's it? I know networks that promoted a false Russian collusion story for YEARS. Even when their guests knew the accusations were incorrect. Thousands of hours of false coverage in an attempt to take down a President. OANN better have something worse than that. Never heard of the network, never seen a show, but I bet they are more reliably accurate than most network and cable news. It wouldn't take much.
I stopped and picked up some Domino's for the family tonight.