WHILE I WAS GONE...

Fox News was particularly productive in the spin department while I was gone. Here are just a handful of items I quickly put together from the Fox News front page that were published as their top story over the last month or so (Click on any image to enlarge):

The Bow--Absolutely silly, was this story really front page news? The Drudge Report, a known conservative website, made it their front page story as shown below so Fox followed suit. Making it front page news and their top headline story served no purpose other than to embarrass the President. For Fox or Drudge to report a minor protocol infraction as major news is nothing short of an anti-american attack on the institution of the presidency. Sure, report it, but put it on the back pages as an amusing faux pas...unless of course you have an ideological agenda:

                                

9/11 TRIAL--You would think Fox News could find just one counter-view that supports holding the trial in New York for their front page, but it was not to be. I particularly like how they put a picture of Osama Bin Laden in a couple of the headlines...is he standing trial in New York too?

                                                

                                              

APPROVAL RATINGS--Obama's approval rating is higher than Sarah Palin's, but Fox News is expert at skewed presentation. After promoting Sarah Palin with a front page story putting her poll results in the best light possible, Fox News follows up the next day with a front page headline bashing of Obama's poll numbers and highlights it with sub-headlines unfavorable to Obama. I guess you can call that balanced.

Honorable Mention:

An Inconvenient Truth--Believe it or not, this was actually a Fox News top headline story in the last month! Can you picture the Fox News editors deciding on their top headline news story: "Forget the war in Afghanistan or the healthcare debate, let's go with the story about the new movie!" This headline is really nothing more than an advertisement for a right-leaning release of a movie that nobody has any interest in. This is not news, Fox is just helping out their right-wing friends that produced this movie. I mean, Al Gore's movie was released in 2006 so Fox News is trying to make it current to create interest in this new counter-argument movie...pretty silly.