FOX forced to retract story about EPA Drone usage.

Absolutely, Fox is nothing more than a right-wing entertainment network! They never let something as trivial as "facts" get in the way of telling a story that makes the left look as bad as possible, at least in the eyes of their target audience. When I first heard of this forced retraction I figured it wouldn't take long at all for the conservatives here to post about it; alright, I made that up...lol! I guess this isn't nearly as bad as NBC not playing the entire 911 recording in the Trayvon Martin shooting, right? At least in that case it was a matter of omission, not totally MAKING SOMETHING UP! Annie

I would never take Fox News as anything else but entertainment show. The real news for me comes from either ABC or CNN. I really dont' trust any other news show. The people at Fox News are not at all professional or smart enough to ever take serious in my opinion. I love Jon Stewart's response to this story. He is so funny but also so right.

They may get hings wrong from time to time but what about the MSM when they will sit on a story that could have changed the election. The NYT refused to print a story about the Obama Campaign giving donor lists to ACORN and used them to raise more money. or NBC not reporting about Fast and Furious until Congress was about to vote a contempt citation. When Fox News makes a mistake it is news, however when the MSM covers up or makes up the news it is not newsworthy because it seems common place.

"Why hasn't anyone asked for the heads of FOX News executives?" Probably because this didn't involve doctoring videos and tapes to make innocent people sound like racists. So they screwed up and were forced to retract the story. I thought the drone story sounded a bit crazy when I heard it, but nothing surprises me with the EPA. We've already established they would rather people starve and die than use water from a river containing the sucker fish. Seriously, does using manned planes make it so much different than using unmanned planes? Their still doing the same thing. Oh... wait... The EPA DOES plan to use drones! I guess maybe they aren't doing it yet, but don't worry, I have a source. It's not a blog. It's... Wait for it... THE EPA! http://cfpub.epa.gov/si/si_public_record_report.cfm?dirEntryId=11068 http://cfpub.epa.gov/si/si_public_record_report.cfm?dirEntryId=143209&fed_org_id=770&SIType=PR&TIMSType=&showCriteria=0&address=nerl/pubs.html&view=citation&personID=441&role=Author&sortBy=pubDateYear&count=100&dateBeginPublishedPresented= http://cfpub.epa.gov/ncer_abstracts/index.cfm/fuseaction/display.abstractDetail/abstract/7784/report/2008

http://weaselzippers.us/2012/06/25/former-tv-producer-on-msnbc-wawa-edits-im-done-denying-liberal-bias/ Greg Kandra writer/producer at CBS News I’m tired. Truly. I’ve grown weary of trying to defend the indefensible and explain the inexplicable. For years, people have stomped their feet and pounded their fists and snorted “Liberal media bias!” and I’ve always tut-tutted and shooshed them and said, “No, no. Calm down. They meant well. It was just a misunderstanding. A mistake. These things happen.” I spent over 25 years working in the oft-reviled Mainstream Media and I saw up close and personal how the sausage was made. I knew the people who wielded the knives and wore the aprons, and could vouch (most of the time, anyway) for their good intentions. But now? Forget it. I’m done. You deserve what they’re saying about you. It’s earned. You have worked long and hard to merit the suspicion, acrimony, mistrust and revulsion that the media-buying public increasingly heaps upon you. You have successfully eroded any confidence, dispelled any trust, and driven your audience into the arms of the Internet and the blogosphere, where biases are affirmed and like-minded people can tell each other what they hold to be true, since nobody believes in objective reality any more. You have done a superlative job of diminishing what was once a great profession and undermining one of the vital underpinnings of democracy, a free press. Good job. I just have one question: What the hell is wrong with you guys?

At least they admitted their mistake and did not pass it off as true once they found it was not. How about MSNBC's most recent scandal? Cropping out over three minutes of a speech to make Romney look clueless? It was a right wing talk show, ex blogger who broke that story. We'd have never known there was more to the story if it was left up to the mainstream media. How about NBC having to admit it doctored the Zimmerman 911 call? CNN reporting Zimmerman used racial epitet when he did not. Dan Rather's using forged documents to discredit Bush. It was bloggers who CLARIFIED these outright attempted lies. How about all the news that mainstream media ignores and that we've only heard of because of bloggers? Anthony Weiner scandal? ACORN corruption. Fast and Furious? SWATing? Warren's claiming she is a person of color? All stories covered by bloggers and tweeters on twitter, and ignored by mainstream media. That is just a more recent list. Bloggers have kept the mainstream media hopping, breaking news stories BEFORE the mainstream in many cases. Just a blogger? Many of the major blogs are written by people with law degrees, journalism degrees, and we all know the financial worth of 'just a blog' from the recent sale of HuffPo. The mainstream media has let America down. They are controled by money interests and have ceased to be objective. We have freedom of the press in America, mentioned in our Bill of Rights for a reason, does any one wonder WHY? Do you know your American history, the history of England? Our founders knew that if people had correct and truthful information they could be trusted to govern themselves. Pamphleteers can be credited with starting the American Revolution. Anyone remember Thomas Paine, Ben Franklin? In England you could be put in the tower, have all your property confiscated, for writing something against the King. Our founders wanted to assure this never happened again. But they didn't forsee the corrupting power of billionaire partisan interests and the sellout of the media. We no longer have the independent reporter working tirelessly on a story for his editor. Now we have bloggers out investigating and writing about what they find online. I for one am encouraged. It means there may be some honesty coming back to the American people in the info they are given.