I've been thinking about those high school kids who smacked the shit out of Fox errrr news.

[trumad]

I took journalism in High School and remember clearly learning the tenets/rules of Journalism. The reason the video is so great is that it lays bare how little Fox News uses the tenants and rules. Simply put---they don't---hence it is not Journalism.

This video is one of the great take-downs I have witnessed in a very long time and I'm damn proud of these kids.

[libodem]

1. Saw this yesterday

And it was outstanding. My mom was an English and journalism major in college. She would agree with these students.

[Cirque du So-What]

2. The tenants of journalism

are those the characters who live rent-free in the heads of FAUX bloviators? Sorry, Tru, couldn't resist.

I am also proud of these students and their brilliant production.

[trumad]

3. LOL

Thanks...edited...

[Tsiyu]

14. Tenets are good, tenants are better?

[zeemike]

4. Yep, from the mouth of babes.

Well they are not babies but young adults...but still.
They must have had teachers that taught them to think for themselves...something that is becoming rare now.
They deserve our complements.

[MyOwnPeace]

7. Maybe......

the kids didn't have to be taking a "standardized" test every week to "prove" how our schools are failing and we need to have vouchers and private enterprise to take them over. (need the "sarcasm" thingie......)

[zeemike]

27. I think you are on to something.

(and that needs the too)
Because we all know it is true.

[mopinko]

5. outstanding!

hope some of these young people go on to make a career of it.

[bvf]

12. Hope too that they don't get

corrupted in the process. I don't mean that to sound cynical--hooray for these kids, and their educators.

[Raine1967]

6. When I watched it yesterday, I was really proud that these kids are our future.

[Fred Sanders]

9. Will CNN mention the video? Anyone in the MSM, I wonder..it is real newsworthy stuff..

[Raine1967]

10. I (sadly) doubt it. It is truly newsworthy.

I like the part where they mentioned that they are challenging the New York Times as well.

[Fred Sanders]

11. Absolutely. Basic journalism is....basic. But the real question is, is it ballsworthy?

[NewJeffCT]

16. All the other networks live in fear of Fox and RW radio

If Fox gets called out too vigorously by the other networks, then we'll hear non-stop screaming from Fox, RW radio and all the RW news rags about anything close to potential bias on the other networks. Remember, one questionable case of liberal bias on another network is equal to a month's worth of propaganda on Fox News.

Then, the network heads will get death threats from the wingnuts as well, which I also think keeps people in line.

[Fred Sanders]

19. That would seem to qualify Fox as domestic terrorists and the rest as victims..could be but I am

more convinced it is a plan, a poor excuse the Media Oligarths all use as cover.

[Fred Sanders]

8. Goebbels would have wept upon seeing this video and all his propaganda techniques laid bare.

[2naSalit]

13. I think someone should

get this into the hands of those who would put it up on the TeeVee screen like Jon Stewart, John Oliver, Rachel Maddow or Chris Hayes... those kinds of individuals who have large audiences.

[mountain grammy]

15. Yes it is, and well worth re-posting..

These kids are fantastic! Thanks Trumad.

[oldandhappy]

17. Amen to all these positive comments.

Saw the video yesterday and it boosted my faith in both education and young folk coming along the path of life. And showed how accurate the WH name tags were with leaving 'news' off the Fox tags. Smile.

[RiverLover]

18. Well, they (or their teacher) obviously feel very strongly about being labeled "liberals"

since they went to this length to prove Fox was wrong to say they're a liberal state.

I like the takedown of Fox, but at the same time, I am sad to see liberals called "mindless" & the implicit agreement with Fox that being liberal is a bad thing. One they have to disprove being.

Signed,
Proud Liberal

[Thespian2]

20. Amazing Students!

Not that Fux or their sheeple will pay the slightest attention to the factual truth spoken by these young people.

Remember Fux's viewers, what few they have, are aged 65 and over, and enjoy being made more stupid by Fux lies.

Even if Billy-O has 3 million viewers, as he claims, what percentage of the population is that?

Does anyone take the POS jesse watters seriously?

[PumpkinAle]

21. I want to move to Vermont

.............. Bennington looks great. Wish I were younger, I would be there in a heartbeat.

[gregcrawford]

24. THEM'S MAH PEEPS!

Though I live in the middle of the state. I wasn't born here, but I got here as fast as I could when I was 30. that was 38 years ago. Damn... I just reminded myself that I'm OLD!

Those kids did a magnificent job of blowing up Bullshit Mountain, as Jon Stewart calls Pox News. I hope that evil bag of rat excrement, O'Reilly, sees this and has an aneurism!

[PumpkinAle]

32. Lucky you

[malaise]

22. A first rate smack down

Bravo youngsters

[Cleita]

23. I was a reporter on our high school newspaper and we actually got

graded by our English teachers on it. Most of the news shows today, not only Fox, would have gotten an "F".

I always thought that media outlets that claimed to be news should be required to follow journalism standards, or else not legally be allowed to claim they are news. The rest would be required to label themselves as opinion, propaganda or even fiction.

Yet every time I suggest something along these lines here on DU, I get berated for not honoring people's right of freedom of speech. Don't I have a right to accurate reporting?

[gregcrawford]

25. Thank Reagan...

... for abolishing the Fairness Doctrine. That opened the door for Murdoch and Ailes to unleash Pox News on the world. A similar statute in Canada is why Pox News cannot broadcast there.

I agree with you that the freedom of speech should not be perverted into the freedom to lie. But then, Republicans wouldn't be able to talk at all! And then what would we have to laugh at?

[Cleita]

26. You are right.

So many of our present problems can be traced back to that old fool.

[2banon]

36. Yes, Raygun, and then Clinton put the final nail in the coffin :(

When he signed off on the Telecommunications Act - 1996 which removed significant anti-trust barriers and opened the flood gates to mega media monopolies we saw come to fruition almost immediately after that act was signed. The irony was that it all came to bite Clinton in the ass despite his attempt to be their darling.

[joanbarnes]

28. Saw it. Love it. Gives me Hope.

[Buzz Clik]

29. Serious question: Does O'Reilly claim to be a journalist?

The piece the kids were slamming was some half-assed bit you might see on a fake news show like The Daily Show or Colbert.

[Quixote1818]

34. Actually, Fox doesn't claim shows like O'Reilly are part of their "News"

However, the problem is all those shows are on "Fox News". It's a way of making people think it's news then hiding behind saying only their segments with Shepard Smith and Brett Baher are actual news. Technically you are right but the vast majority of the public is manipulated by Fox to think it's all news.

[DFW]

30. My dad was president of the Washington chapter of the Society for Professional Journalists

He was also president of the Gridiron Club. Received the Thomas L. Stokes award, etc etc etc. He took his job VERY seriously.

He puked at what an incipient Fox "News" was making out of his profession (he died in 2000), and he would have been one of the loudest crusaders against the perversion of his profession that Fox has become. He lived through the rise of the Nazis, the use of state media for propaganda purposes by the Soviets and their post-war clones. He knew EXACTLY what was legit and what was not. He got praise from members of Congress from both parties (and the Republicans respected him, even as they screamed at what he wrote, because he dug out the truth before he sent it for publication) in the Congressional Record.

He would have applauded the young people in this film as his successors in spirit, and hopefully, in reality. With his family connections, he could have gotten himself a far more prestigious career start. Instead, he ended up being what he was 50 years before he died: a Washington correspondent in a one-man tiny bureau for a small paper in a one-horse town in upstate New York. Why? Because it's what he wanted to do. It seems to me that the kids in this film want to follow him. Somewhere, he is cheering them on. So am I.

[trumad]

35. +1

Excellent post

[Cha]

31. I love that well thought out take down of fox "news".. Their framing of "Code of Violation" and

their "Serial Distorted Perceptions"! fox Messed with the wrong Town of Bennington, Vermont!

And, as I said yesterday..

Fox "news" is a Propaganda Pusher.. nothing more. No wonder the White House didn't put "news" on their table placement cards.

Excellent.. thank you, buster and thank you Vermont High School kids! Just brilliant.. they know what's going on more than all those adult fox "truthers".

[Quixote1818]

33. What I love is they make that Fox segment look absolutly rediculous!

Like a bunch of fucking condescending, dishonest, fucktards who have no fucking idea how clueless they look and how utterly un-professional they are. What those kids did deserves a some kind of media, journalism award.