Fox News 'fails to adhere to basic journalistic standards', says

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Source: Press Gazett-UK

Fox News‘ credibility score has been downgraded to “red” by media watchdog Newsguard, meaning it “fails to adhere to several basic journalistic standards”.

Fox has had an overall passing score since the ratings agency launched in 2018. (Disclosure: the author of this story, Bron Maher, was formerly a Newsguard employee.)

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......The score dropped further this week because Newsguard ruled that Fox’s website no longer met its standard for publishing corrections.

Newsguard writes in its updated review for Fox News: “In previous reviews of foxnews.com, Newsguard found that while the site had published false claims on significant topics that were uncorrected, that because foxnews.com regularly published other corrections, and because the false claims did not appear to occur frequently, foxnews.com did not fail Newsguard’s standard for having effective corrections practices.”

Now, however, the credibility rater says it has found “that foxnews.com published uncorrected significantly false claims at a much more frequent rate than in previous reviews”.

Read more: https://pressgazette.co.uk/fox-news-newsguard/

[The Mouth]

1. PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE

"NEWS" should always be in quotes when following the word "Fox".

[Talitha]

16. FOX NEWS - - - "Never Enough Whacky Shit"

That ought to do it.

[ificandream]

23. Great minds think alike. I've been saying this for months.

I've gone a little further and I don't use the word "news" after Fox at all anymore. Call it Fox Drivel, Fox Garbage, but don't call it "news" since it's not, never has been and never will be. As someone who worked at a metro daily newspaper for over 35 years, I can say without a doubt that those of us who work or worked in the profession think the fact Fox pretends to be a fountain of journalism is a laugher if what they've done to the business, to the country and the world as a whole isn't so sad. I hope that when their cable negotiations come up soon as I read they will that cable outlets will do to them what has been done to OANN and shut them off.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

2. Fox News Loses Trusted News Source Rating From Journalism Watchdog

Fox News is not a news organization

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https://www.politicususa.com/2022/07/21/fox-news-not-trustworthy.html

Newsguard has downgraded Fox News from a trustworthy green rating to red proceed with caution.

Here is the downgrade of Fox News:

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The rationale for downgrading Fox News was, “In previous reviews of foxnews.com, Newsguard found that while the site had published false claims on significant topics that were uncorrected, that because FoxNews.com regularly published other corrections, and because the false claims did not appear to occur frequently, foxnews.com did not fail Newsguard’s standard for having effective corrections practices.”.....

Fox News being downgraded is a big deal because it confirms that Fox’s media properties have moved more toward misinformation and away from journalism practices.

Fox has been misleading viewers for years, but they have moved into misinformation and are no longer recognized as a trusted news source by objective third-party standards.

[irisblue]

3. No shirt Sherlock, using an old phrase.

[Evolve Dammit]

4. YA THINK?? JHC it's propaganda and "entertainment' disguised as "news." Always has been. n/t

[Archae]

5. You really think Faux "news" or it's brain-dead groupies give a shit?

All they want is commentaries and "news stories" that confirm their pet beliefs or prejudices.

[The Mouth]

13. All they want is ratings

eyeballs and clicks.

[pwb]

6. It took them long enough.

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[Alexander Of Assyria]

7. This journalism "watchdog" must have not been fed this past decade to not notice earlier.

[Evolve Dammit]

8. Shep Smith and Chris Wallace couldn't take it anymore. Plenty always willing to take their place tho

[Lovie777]

9. What took so long .......

[James48]

27. This !

I ask that question myself. WTF took them this long to figure out Fox is not news?

[MontanaMama]

10. Well it is too bad that the people who need to see this

won't. *ucker will be on during his regular time slot telling his rubes that liberals are taking their rights away.

[YoshidaYui]

11. more ...

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[Saoirse9]

12. About fucking time

[Turbineguy]

14. I missed the 1960 headline

"Dr. Josef Goebbels lied"

[Marcuse]

15. So? Fox News has a judicial license to lie. The court ruled no reasonable person would believe them.

The elitist judge showed no regard for the adverse impact of Fox News on unreasonable viewers and, by extension, the rest of the country.

[progressoid]

17. Wait, they were rated "trustworthy" before?

[NBachers]

18. Big Newsdog Revelation. Water is Wet!

[Montauk6]

19. They misspelled "never adhered to"

[SergeStorms]

20. "several basic journalistic standards"?

They don't adhere to ANY journalistic standards whatsoever! 😒

[IronLionZion]

21. They should be required to drop "News" from their name

since it seems Orwellian, like the old Soviet "Pravda". Fox News should be relegated to tabloid status at best.

[ificandream]

25. The word "News" should sue them. :)

[Rebl2]

22. Oh Lordy

That should have happened 6 years ago or longer.

[onetexan]

24. The FCC should fine Faux News for spreading lies and brand it as a tabloid disinformation source

[SouthernDem4ever]

26. So did they just notice?

It's been like that since the 80's.

[riversedge]

28. It speaks to YOU Hannity and Tucker

[Novara]

29. IMO if you lie repeatedly on the air you deserve to be taken off the air

But I'm just a nobody.

[krispos42]

30. Captain Obvious says... DUH! n/t

[LymphocyteLover]

31. WTF? FoxNews *WAS* green???

Who is this site anyway? Like Repubs will care about this?

[Politicub]

32. Obvious news is obvious

Here goes my rant…

Honestly, I’m sick about reading about Fox News and hearing the same things about how much of an opinion-spewing shithole it is.

Yes. We know. It has been that way for years.

Why are there so many posts about it? Is this new information for some people?

I mean, honestly. I’m so over hearing about Fox News.

I used to talk about politics with a good friend. But it became so annoying when he would insert what Fox News “would say” or what Matt Gaetz would say, etc. The conversations became repetitive and obnoxious, because I just don’t care about Fox and what it pushes. I already have seen this movie. Over and over and over again.

The useless Fox posts are among the many topics where people repost a predictable tweet from a Republican and act like they’re shocked at the hypocrisy.

Spoiler alert: They are hypocrites. They don’t care. Their followers don’t care. And I don’t care to keep reading about their every fart in the wind.

I’m grateful for DU’s trash thread feature.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

33. FOX News' finances take a massive hit as the internet's top news certification appraiser downgrades

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