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This is real.
This actually happened.
No, this isn’t about the far-left CBC, but I do understand the confusion. Yes, Canada, this is what passes for objective news reporting, today, from what is purportedly a reputable, supposedly neutral or objective, national newspaper. And it’s also an excellent explanation for why the liberal-left news media is going bankrupt — financially if not journalistically.
It’s an Associated Press story brought to you by the National Post, which clearly spun it by pulling that headline out of their nether regions, to make it more to their liking. The National Post is displaying some of the same juvenile proclivities it displayed when “reporting” on Sarah Palin, Ann Coulter, and the tea party, and anything else remotely conservative (or, in the case of Fox News, tolerant of conservatives). Maybe we can just blame it on some unpaid summer interns or students who are apparently running the place right now. Or maybe they’ve just given up over there. I don’t know.
AP didn’t create that headline. Here’s how the AP delivered the story:
From “Fox News Anchor Charged After Airport Arrest,” to “Fox News anchor stops ragging on Obama long enough to get arrested in drunken airport encounter.”
I imagine this will eventually be seen by one of the grownups at the National Post — or a shareholder, or something. Perhaps Andrew Coyne or Kelly McParland or Terence Corcoran will tap one of the kids on the shoulder, and the headline will be corrected, since opinion is really their domain, not the news department’s.
It should be noted that the National Post’s parent, Postmedia, is struggling, certainly journalistically if not financially (it lost $25.3-million in just this year’s second quarter), and in terms of readership (NP is ninth in Canadian circulation); while Fox News Channel is by far the most-watched cable news channel in America — usually doubling the audience of CNN and MSNBC combined, in every hour of every day. Oh and also, FNC is the only major news outlet that doesn’t give President Obama a tongue bath all day long. Obviously that deeply offends the balanced set at the National Post, who might want to get a clue.
So for their own good, the National Post should stop ragging on Fox News Channel like obstinate children of liberal parents — and actually, stop ragging on all conservatives and conservative-tolerant organizations — since it’s really just embarrassing for them, and stupid in every way I can think of for a newspaper today. It’s like they’re drunk.
UPDATE
As predicted, sort of, they’ve changed it. Sort of. It’s like they’re stubborn, belligerent little children…
The URL remains as http://news.nationalpost.com/2014/05/22/fox-news-anchor-stops-ragging-on-obama-long-enough-to-get-arrested-in-drunken-airport-encounter/
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