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‘Take that down’: Howard Kurtz surprised... Fox News...least trusted

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An accidental posting on FOX caused some turmoil at the Network. ‘Take that down’: Howard Kurtz surprised after graphic pops up showing Fox News is least trusted network. Couldn't happen to a better group of people :)

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That is being taken out of context. The graphic wasn't shown accidentally. It was there on purpose. It was just shown at the wrong place in the segment.

The three cable networks were not being compared to each other; instead, poll respondents were asked to compare each network to Trump as a trusted source of information.

Monmouth found that 30 percent of people trust Fox News more than they trust President Trump; 20 percent of poll respondents said trust the president more than they do the network. Thirty-seven percent said they trust both equally.
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...rusted-than-cnn-msnbc/?utm_term=.20630faa4e70
 
If people trust those three news networks more than they do Trump then that's a good sign that his base is shrinking..
 
Media_Truth said:
That article isn't convincing at all. Just emphasizes how much Kurtz was backpedalling.
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You don't need to read the article to know that Kurtz had that graphic prepared in advance for some part of his presentation.

It wasn't a random selection. It was there, ready for him to use. You think he had them queue up a graphic which said that Fox was trusted less than CNN or MSNBC? First of all, no, he wouldn't have done that. Secondly, it's not true. Last I heard -- back in January of this year -- Fox was the most trusted cable news network. So clearly there was a different context to those numbers.

These are things that we can deduce without reading that article. Things I deduced when the story first broke. I am not a Fox fan. Not at all. But they're bad enough without us making stuff up about them. Of course in one sense they've earned the laughter. "Couldn't happen to a better group of people," as you say. But it's still preferable to make our case against Fox without taking their faux pas out of context.
 
Amelia said:
You don't need to read the article to know that Kurtz had that graphic prepared in advance for some part of his presentation.

It wasn't a random selection. It was there, ready for him to use. You think he had them queue up a graphic which said that Fox was trusted less than CNN or MSNBC? First of all, no, he wouldn't have done that. Secondly, it's not true. Last I heard -- back in January of this year -- Fox was the most trusted cable news network. So clearly there was a different context to those numbers.

These are things that we can deduce without reading that article. Things I deduced when the story first broke. I am not a Fox fan. Not at all. But they're bad enough without us making stuff up about them. Of course in one sense they've earned the laughter. "Couldn't happen to a better group of people," as you say. But it's still preferable to make our case against Fox without taking their faux pas out of context.
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Yes, it was the wrong graphic, yes, it was at a time that it wasn't supposed to be. But dang, it's funny as all heck
 
RAMOSS said:
Yes, it was the wrong graphic, yes, it was at a time that it wasn't supposed to be. But dang, it's funny as all heck
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tru dat
 
Amelia said:
You don't need to read the article to know that Kurtz had that graphic prepared in advance for some part of his presentation.

It wasn't a random selection. It was there, ready for him to use. You think he had them queue up a graphic which said that Fox was trusted less than CNN or MSNBC? First of all, no, he wouldn't have done that. Secondly, it's not true. Last I heard -- back in January of this year -- Fox was the most trusted cable news network. So clearly there was a different context to those numbers.

These are things that we can deduce without reading that article. Things I deduced when the story first broke. I am not a Fox fan. Not at all. But they're bad enough without us making stuff up about them. Of course in one sense they've earned the laughter. "Couldn't happen to a better group of people," as you say. But it's still preferable to make our case against Fox without taking their faux pas out of context.
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FOX - most trusted??? Now that's a real laugher. Every poll I've ever seen emphasizes that they are the most biased and untruthful news network on the planet.
 
Media_Truth said:
FOX - most trusted??? Now that's a real laugher. Every poll I've ever seen emphasizes that they are the most biased and untruthful news network on the planet.
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Well, there's the group of people who consider Fox the most trustworthy ... and there's all the rest of the people. And all the rest of the people have a lot more networks to split their votes between. The people who hang on the words of people like Hannity don't have that many other networks competing for their favor.
 
Amelia said:
Well, there's the group of people who consider Fox the most trustworthy ... and there's all the rest of the people. And all the rest of the people have a lot more networks to split their votes between. The people who hang on the words of people like Hannity don't have that many other networks competing for their favor.
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Yes, FOX is an anger-inciting network. They often use lies, deception, partial truths, etc to accomplish their goal. Case in point - constantly referring to Obama's father, even though the former-president only met him once.
 
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