https://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/02/23/948814/-Fox-flips-poll-results-to-falsely-claim-Americans-support-union-busting?detail=emailclassic
another older post but these things need to be in the front of our minds during this election cycle.
Earlier this morning, Fox broadcast the results of a USA Today/Gallup poll on whether Americans believe their states should take away collective bargaining rights for public sector unions.
As you can see from the chart on the right, the poll showed that the overwhelming majority of Americans oppose union-busting, with 61% against taking away collective bargaining rights and only 33% in favor.
But that's not what Fox told their audience. In fact, Fox claimed the poll showed Americans supported union-busting. To accomplish this, they simply reversed the numbers. As you can see in the screenshot at the top of the post, they claimed 61% supported taking away collective bargaining rights and just 33% supported it. That, of course, is a mirror image of the truth.
This wasn't just some simple Chyron slip, an example of fat-fingering on a live broadcast. Fox & Friends co-host Brian Kilmeade also used the fake numbers as evidence to take the side of union-busters, claiming most Americans sided with Walker's position, not against him.
Now, I'm sure Fox and Kilmeade will claim they did nothing wrong. After all, at the very end of the Fox & Friends broadcast, he took a few seconds to offer a brief correction. And if it were a one-time mistake, it would be reasonable to accept that it wasn't anything more than an honest slip.
But this wasn't a one-time mistake. Things like this happen all the time at Fox. Even though they sometimes issue brief corrections at the tail end of broadcasts, the network as a whole has become a reality distortion field unparalleled by anything else in the broadcast media universe. Everybody screws up every now and then, but as far as ideological propaganda goes, Fox simply has no equal. It can be entertaining, but as far as substance goes, it's a total joke.
this is why sometimes i think it's necessary to re-post older stories the lies and misleading information thrown in the trough by republicans and their own private media circus Fox. ask yourself two questions how many times have we been duped by their intentional misinformation we will probably never know but we can expose those we can. second why in the world would anybody working a job not want to be represented and have a voice in the workplace??????
that leads to what we have now because they waged war on unions your, hours, wages, work place conditions, vacation, for women maternity leave without being fired, and the last but not least healthcare. again i ask why would any one want that not a part of their work experience and where is the noise from the right wing base or are they still feeding at the red meat trough????????????
