Local and national news channels have been doing a good job of covering the heart breaking stories of people that have lost their homes and in a few cases their lives from the massive fires in Southern California. Fox News is busy stoking the fears of their brainwashed audience instead. Even though most of the TV crowd loves this "if it bleeds (or burns), it leads" but they still do a decent job of reporting and not opining their politics. Fox News on the other hand...doesn't give a shit.
From RawStory:
Fox & Friends, the conservative cable channel, was panned Wednesday for breathlessly reporting a sketchy, four-year-old FBI memo as if it offered new information linking America's enemies in the "Global War on Terror" with a plot to burn down southern California.
The morning team was back at it Thursday, as anchor Alisyn Camerota introduced a segment on the fires that again mischaracterized and over-inflated warnings from a 2003 interview with an al Qaeda detainee.
Camerota said Fox's fear-mongering was "based on some information the FBI sent to local law enforcement in California and other Western states ... that there was a plot afoot to set three or four different" fires. Left unsaid by the Fox news-reader was that the FBI warning was sent more than four years ago, described a potential plot that made no mention of California, could not be proven accurate and did not raise alarms from forest-fire officials at the time. (Such caveats all were included in an Associated Press report on the warning at the time.)
Seriously, how do they get away with this crap? Do they care about their integrity, even just a little bit?
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