Fox News vs. mental stability

[LiamKerrington]

opinionated and tendentious journalism isn't news, it's opinion. news is facts, and if you want to broadcast the news, you should not be editing a story so you can point fingers at someone else and say "see? those are bad people." if you want to say your opinion, don't disguise it as news, because it's not. it's misinformation because it was never declared to be an opinion, it was presented as a fact.

In theory I would agree with you, if news services and media were only about giving you the facts. I have doubts that you could boils down as easily. Just consider all the different topics, in which facts are anything but easily obtained. As I pointed out over my various walls of words news-services and media are actually everything else but limited to the presentation of facts only - especially since the sources they rely on do neither necessarily nor generally provide facts alone, but only parts of it at best. Here one major part of activity is to raise questions - as for example about he "why" or the "who else".

Since this thread started with one particular "weak" article by FOX-News, I would say: Even FOX News, although some of you have highlighted how important this news-service or the media-group of FOX, does not do simple reportings of facts alone. And in this FOX is no different then any other (mass)media or news-service.

And please consider that the selection of what news, even if it is only about simple facts alone, is already tendentious in itself. To stay with the gun-examples and look at the evening-prime-time news: 15 minutes only reports in which journalists only speak about people shooting other people - without asking how things evolved, why things happened, and without questioning the background. No. Facts alone, that alone is not what news-services are there for.

All the best!
Liam