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DonViejo

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Thu Jan 29, 2015, 04:13 PM Jan 2015

SURPRISE, SURPRISE FOX ‘NEWS’ LIES MORE THAN THEY TELL THE TRUTH, FACT-CHECKING SITE FINDS

Only ten percent stands between Fox and fiction.

Ten percent is the number of times the Fox News Channel (FNC) tells the complete truth. Ten percent. Let that sink in a moment.

According to Politifact, a fact-checking website which runs news channels through their Truth-O-Meter regularly throughout the year, also found that eleven percent of the time the FNC tells the partial truth, and 18 percent of the time are spouting half-truths. Most sickening of all, they outright “Pants on Fire” 9 percent of the time, tell mostly false stories 21 percent of the time, and tell completely false stories 31 percent.

Which means if we combine the truths vs. the lies, they tell some semblance of the truth 39 percent of the time, while they’re majorly lying to their audience 61 percent of the time.

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http://www.ifyouonlynews.com/politics/surprise-surprise-fox-news-lies-more-than-they-tell-the-truth-fact-checking-site-finds/
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SURPRISE, SURPRISE FOX ‘NEWS’ LIES MORE THAN THEY TELL THE TRUTH, FACT-CHECKING SITE FINDS (Original Post) DonViejo Jan 2015 OP
I really can't imagine fx "news" telling the truth about anything. They have to lie about the gop Cha Jan 2015 #1

Cha

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1. I really can't imagine fx "news" telling the truth about anything. They have to lie about the gop
Thu Jan 29, 2015, 05:57 PM
Jan 2015

and the Dems. "semblance" is the operative word.

Don

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