Teen with full ride to 20 colleges requests public apology from Fox affiliate

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(04-13-2018, 09:27 AM)michaelsean Wrote: I don't know if it's really Fox News.  It's a Fox affiliate.  Our local Fox sounds like all the other local stations.  Blood, fluff and weather.  I doubt they'd like to be thought of as an extension of Fox News.

It's not so much "Fox v Everyone Else" but more the "Fox Mentality v Jounalism."

Real journalists for years slammed Fox because of the opinions. Not just the bias, but the overt opinionism interjected mostly through adjectives. Watch Fox under the Bush years and news references to fighting in the ME were typically patriotic. "Brave troops today engaged murderous Muslims in SomeCityEndinginStan." The Obama years, the adjectives changed. "Fighting continues today for brave troops in SomeCityEndinginStan."

And it's slowly spread to where that's the norm. 

The last daily newsroom I was in, the biggest argument every day was over adjectives and adverbs. Young reporters want to use them to make their stories more interesting; veteran editors strike them.

I don't think this being a Fox affiliate has anything to do with it, but I do think the Fox mentality does.