Gadi Evron wrote: <<snip>> > When I find an article that is very persuasive, no matter how base-less, > unsubstantiated and full of logical fallacies it may be, I stop and > admire the job done by the authors. This time they decided to > character-assassinate Obama's Science Czar, Paul Holdren. And they, the > winners, are Fox News. > > The article title says it all, in loaded language: > > "Obama's Science Czar Considered Forced Abortions, Sterilization as > Population Growth Solutions" > > > What likely happened: > 30 years ago, Obama's Science Czar considered global warming, and > described it from every angle, including the problem of population > growth. He discussed many varying solutions to it--in a whopping > 1000-pages book. > > Fox news takes this fact, demonizes the guy, and ignores the last 30 > years of his work. Fascinating butchery job! > > They mainly use loaded language, repeating their claims ad nauseam, ad > infinitum. And last but not least, ad hominem personal attacks.
At Fox News that is called "reporting" or "journalism". You are, after all, talking about a "news" chennel that feels the need to use "fair and balanced" as its tagline, so any thinking person should not be disappointed to get neither... Regards, Nick FitzGerald _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
