PunditFact ‘scorecards’ show false statements on Fox News, NBC/MSNBC

[The Guesser]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs...s-show-false-statements-on-fox-news-nbcmsnbc/

[h=1]PunditFact ‘scorecards’ show false statements on Fox News, NBC/MSNBC[/h] By Erik Wemple July 8
PunditFact, a spinoff of the popular PolitiFact, last week launched a batch of “scorecards” that rate news channels on truth. The results, in three quick screenshots:

To sum up the bad side of things: In a post on the scorecards, PunditFact combined ratings of “Mostly False,” “False” or “Pants on Fire.” Sixty percent of Fox News statements examined by PunditFact fell on this dark side, as did 46 percent of NBC/MSNBC statements and 18 percent of CNN statements.
The summaries come with a note of caution from PunditFact, in that the outlet uses its “news judgment to pick the facts we’re going to check, so we certainly don’t fact-check everything.” Aaron Sharockman, editor of PunditFact, tells the Erik Wemple Blog that his group is determined to “go around the block” to check on all the TV networks. That said, tips from the public supply up to 30 percent of the site’s stuff, he says. And most of those tips pertain to either the Sunday talk shows or Fox News and MSNBC. “You have a whole bunch of people watching Fox looking for falsehoods and you have a bunch of people watching MSNBC looking for falsehoods,” says Sharockman. Also, Fox News and MSNBC do a great deal of roundtable/political discussion segments, which tend to yield dumb and sometimes un-factual comments by pundits.
Note: The PunditFact totals don’t include statements by politicians on the TV airwaves.

 

[Willie99]

if every person has inherent bias, I wonder which way that bias leans if 90% of a demographic leans one way in the political spectrum?

anybody?

 

[Acebb]

I am not at all surprised this idiot actually posted this. You can not make up how gullible and dumb the poster who started this thread is.

The “study” from PunditFact (a subdivision of PolitiFact), which is not really a study, says no such thing. You do not have to rely on my word for that: PunditFact itself warns against using its figures “to draw broad conclusions,” e.g. that Fox News lies “like all the time.”

How Stupid Happens
No, PolitiFact did not show that half of Fox News statements are false.

http://www.nationalreview.com/article/382851/how-stupid-happens-kevin-d-williamson

 

[Acebb]

Notice how the forum idiot who started this thread left this part out:

The comparisons are interesting, but be cautious about using them to draw broad conclusions. We use our news judgment to pick the facts we’re going to check, so we certainly don’t fact-check everything. And we don’t fact-check the five network groups evenly. CBS, for instance, doesn’t have a cable network equivalent, so we haven’t fact-checked pundits and CBS personalities as much.



Using this same methodology, approximately 100% of items forum idiot the guesser has posted, evaluated by me, are false.

Again, you can't parody how stupid the person who started this thread actually is.

 

[The Guesser]

Notice how the forum idiot who started this thread left this part out:

The comparisons are interesting, but be cautious about using them to draw broad conclusions. We use our news judgment to pick the facts we’re going to check, so we certainly don’t fact-check everything. And we don’t fact-check the five network groups evenly. CBS, for instance, doesn’t have a cable network equivalent, so we haven’t fact-checked pundits and CBS personalities as much.



Using this same methodology, approximately 100% of items forum idiot the guesser has posted, evaluated by me, are false.

Again, you can't parody how stupid the person who started this thread actually is.

Of Course, Lying Ace is Lying again. I left nothing out. I posted an article in it's entirety, complete with link. Even someone as stupid and dishonest as Lying Ace Lying Ace can click on the link and see I left nothing out. But that would expose him in yet another countless lie, so he'll just continue to lie, and the amen cult in here will let him get away with it, even lacking the guts and decency (except for Mich) to even question him calling Finchy a Pedo.

 

[Acebb]

Of Course, Lying Ace is Lying again. I left nothing out. I posted an article in it's entirety, complete with link.

Uh, you didn't post any article from the actual source. You went with the Washington Post blog instead.

Other than that, you like totally left nothing out.

 

[russ1945]

Hey guys guesser is just like Obama, transparent lol. A guy who tried to pass himself off as an independent lol. Media Matters set a goal to destroy Fox and what is the result, it continues to lead in all the ratings. Duh Meanwhile the lame stream media lies and misrepresents all the time and even fails to mention issues that it wants to avoid. This thread shows what guesser is all about.

 

[russ1945]

[h=1]FOX News is the #1 Cable News Network in July[/h]Categories: Cable News Ratings
Written By Amanda Kondolojy
July 29th, 2014

For the month of July, FOX News Channel, which recently marked 151 months as #1 in cable news, was the only cable news network to post year-to-year increases in primetime in both total viewers and among adults 25-54.
Additionally, Fox News Channel claimed the top 14 cable news programs in total viewers for five consecutive months since March 2014. See below for more.
RATINGS FOR THE TOP 5 PROGRAMS IN CABLE NEWS FOR JULY ‘14:

• Total Viewers: The O’Reilly Factor (2,832,000); The Kelly File (2,386,000); The Five (1,940,000); Special Report w/ Bret Baier (1,861,000); Hannity (1,711,000).

• Adults 25-54: The O’Reilly Factor (446,000); The Kelly File (386,000); Hannity (332,000); The Five (291,000); Special Report w/ Bret Baier (277,000).

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[Albatross]

if every person has inherent bias, I wonder which way that bias leans if 90% of a demographic leans one way in the political spectrum?

anybody?

Good luck getting an answer on that!