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Politico Story On Reid Crumbling | 48 comments (48 topical)

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FOX is taking it a major step further now and (none / 0) (#15)
by Edger on Thu Jun 14, 2007 at 05:54:51 PM EST
is now reporting it this way:
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid confirmed Thursday that he told liberal bloggers last week that he thinks outgoing Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Peter Pace is "incompetent."

In their story the words Harry Reid are a link, appearing (at first glance to someone who doesn't click it) to something that ostensibly will support the assertion that Reid confirmed and admitted to calling Pace incompetent.

That link is a circular self referential link to a FOX search page that presents links back to the same article.

This is lying turned into an art form.

That style of link is normal from FOX (none / 0) (#47)
by roy on Thu Jun 14, 2007 at 07:44:47 PM EST
And not in a "lying is normal from FOX" way.  It's just their (imho, silly) way of encouraging people to read more stuff on their site.  You can see the same thing in many (most?) articles they host, including this obviously innocuous example  about monkeys.

The FOX News site is not a blog.  It doesn't follow blog style conventions.

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You're not saying (none / 0) (#50)
by Edger on Fri Jun 15, 2007 at 02:55:47 AM EST
that Fox is too stupid to know how the blogosphere will read it, are you, Roy?

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You know (none / 0) (#51)
by Edger on Fri Jun 15, 2007 at 09:31:48 AM EST
how the freepers and powerlie readers will see that Fox article? They'll see, and tell their friends, that Fox reported Reid confirming what Politico said  - AND they even had a link in the first paragraph, and the link confirmed what the Fox article said. What more could they ask for?

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