I would not use words as strong as "clean up" to refer to this. Fox News has been heavily pushing these bogus polls as actual news, using them to argue not just that most Americans thought Trump won the debate, but that the overwhelming majority of those on all the other news channels were biased and incompetent for thinking that he lost. It is hard to emphasize enough just how both absurd and dishonest this is. It is on the order of FN reporting that Justin Bieber is the bastard son of Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders, and citing an article in the National Enquirer as its source (and that the FN personalities who reported this stood to directly benefit personally and financially from any extra Bieber sales these lies led to). *And* - the only response FN makes is to issue a memo reminding their employees that doing this is not consistent with their policies. This is about 1000% more outrageous than the exaggerations Brian Williams engaged in, and NBC condemned him to the public stocks.
Furthermore, FN appears to still be falling back on its excuse that the people doing this are not really journalists - though the fake poll stories were the top stories on their website the morning after the debate - are those just entertainment as well? I doubt that Roger Ailes would have handled this any differently. On Thursday, 29 September 2016, Steve Timko <[email protected]> wrote: > Would this have happened if Roger Ailes were still in the house? Is > FOX cleaning up its act? > > http://www.politico.com/blogs/on-media/2016/09/fox-news- > online-polls-228836#ixzz4LZM8R9tE > > -- > -- > TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "TV or Not TV" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > <javascript:;> > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] <javascript:;> > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "TVorNotTV" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected] <javascript:;>. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- Sent from Gmail Mobile -- -- TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
