Buffalo Boy's Blog

Even Bill O'Reilly is apologizing for his and his networks piss poor excuse for breaking news. Say what you want about CNN, MSNBC and the other major news networks but they don't go airing bullshit excuses for stories just to make the president and his administration look bad. You can go back to the ACORN scandal that did in an organization whose only purpose was to get those less fortunate registered to vote.

This whole Shirley Sherrod thing has blown up in the wrong faces and its put its focus on the wrong people. Isn't Fox News coming under more fire for this? Why does Sean Hannity still have a job?

This whole thing stunk from the beginning and Fox News should be facing some stiff fines/punishment from someone. At the very least the educated amongst its viewers should be seriously questioning why they go to this station for news.

Lets re-examine that word. News.....what does that word mean anymore? I blame all the news networks for this fact, news networks have become more based on opinion based shows from either side of the political spectrum than what news should be based on....FACT

FOX however takes it to a whole new level, they purposefully air stuff without vetting it, take those bullshit videos of the tea party demonstrations against healthcare last summer when they were showing crowds from a different rally. FOX news is doing nothing more than adjusting and totally falsifying its content to satisfy their intended audience who will watch and listen blindly and believe it regardless of the truth.

This however went too far, it got an innocent woman fired, luckily cooler heads prevailed, Shirley Sherrod knew she didn't do wrong, the other networks eventually did their homework and called FOX on the bullshit.

News networks on both sides of the aisle need to do less opinion based shows and more fact based shows. I will grant MSNBC one thing, their mainly liberal lineup which I watch nightly fills their broadcasts with these little things called FACTS. CNN especially Anderson Cooper is a bit more opinion based.

Take the opinion out of the news, they won't because opinions, especially controversial/onesided ones draw viewers and ultimately that is what these news networks are all about.

30 years ago you could turn on the news and thats what you would get, news, now you get Glenn Beck, Sean Hannity and Bill O'Reilly spewing crap, though O'Reilly I will admit has done his fair share of sticking up for and actually realizing and admitting his wrongs lately.

Instead of focusing on Sherrod and the Obama administration lets focus on the crappy journalism of Fox News and their inability to vet their stories if only to make someone look bad.

And while we are bringing up racism at Tea Party rallies