FOX News v. Blackfive readers

Posted By Uncle Jimbo

This week we picked up a ton of traffic from two posts and while they were on completely different topics they had one thing in common. They were both tips from Blackfive readers. In the story of SSGT Dean, the slammin' Marine, we put up his video and later the same day FOX News.com had it up on their home page. They have picked up stories from us on other occasions and actually it is a nice compliment, nicer if they'd throw a hat tip out. They followed up the video by asking who he was and if anyone could find him. The next day we got an email from a reader whose husband worked with the yet unknown SSGT. She said her husband had given him our info and he was finding out if he was allowed to talk to the press. Then we got another message saying we should coordinate with Cherry Point PAO in order to speak with him. I spoke with Mike Barton and he arranged a phone interview that was the first he gave to any media. I posted the interview and also introduced him by name, both legitimate scoops and thanks directly to the tips from a reader. So thanks again to her.

A day later FOX News.com has this on their homepage, claiming Only on FOX. Yeah only on FOX the long since scooped story, minus even the bone toss of a link. Hmmmph.

Now Breitbart on the other hand had the same story and lo and behold right there is the due credit. How hard was that? The Drudge/Breitbart combo has dominated news coverage for a while. Would it hurt FOX to play nice with us.

The other story was about magic bullets and the return of Flat Fatima. In this case reader Hoefer, picked up on the name of the photog and came up with the other pics in her portfolio, all chock full of magic bullets. This was the first notice of another serial fauxtography incident.

Both of these were excellent journalism and will continue to push us up the food chain as new media takes a seat at the adults table. Kudos to our readership and everyone who has made Blackfive a force to be reckoned with. We promise to keep using this platform to fight back against the lies & deceit perpetrated by the left and their media mouthpieces.

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[Wink]

This is my biggest Beef..

it is NEWS.. simple facts about the day.. tell me the plane crashed.. tell me a Hurricane is coming, tell me who won the football game I missed. Used to be that I had to catch the 6PM news to find out, unless I wanted to wait until the next morning and grab my paper. Now, I can go get my news instantly, from literally thousands of sources.. so.. what makes me chose who to go to for my news now?

Facts do.. I watch CNN and see the Plane crash story.. and I get told that had George Bush never have been born, the plane wouldnt have crashed

NBC tells me Bush has Cheney call Halliburton and have the plane rigged to crash..

ABC tells me it could have been terrorists. since Bush has angered them and without him there woudlnt be terrorists..

And then Poor Katie comes on CBS and says it wasn't a plane crash, just a harsher than normal landing.. now for a great cookie recipe!

so I go to Fox.. and they show a 3 second clip of the crash, with no real detail, followed by 4 hours of point counter point disputing that Bush wasnt involved!!

I can go to Drudge, Breitbart and find out it was Boeing 737, that had engine trouble and..well it sucks but it crashed and 40 people died, 20 from Brazil and 10 from the US.. darn shame.. no politics, no agendas..

so where do I go for news now? Not the "Real" media.. because they cant deliver news anymore.. it's all about Politics and blame. You are a JOURANLIST.. not a judge.. tell me what happened, I am intelligent enough to form my own conspiracies in my mind.

Iraq and Military issues is why I come to Blackfive.. it isn't pro war and pro bush, it isnt anti war and pro democrat.. it has reports, and commentary based on "Well today, 3 soldiers were killed by an IED".. it sucks, but it's the flat truth, no massaging of intel or reporting style.. just the fact.. you guys talk about when things go bad, and when they go good, and RESPECT YOUR AUDIENCE enough to let us decide where that fits itno the bigger scheme of things.

Want a friend? be friendly towards them.. want an audience? treat them with respect. and Fauxnews used to do that, now it's become the Republican parties CNN..

bah.

Bravo, and Kudos to Blackfive and others for delivering the straight poop and letting US decide.

[Ymarsakar]

What did Fox News reply with?

[TBinSTL]

Small consolation I know, but we know the truth of it.

[OldSoldier54]

Got it in one, Wink.

[rick554]

Well. Today Wink says it for me. When I want the real truth , I sure as hell dont go to MSNBC or CBS. Blackfive and the Blogs are vital info sources. Being an ARMY dad. I want only the FACTS!. Well done B5 and keep up the good WORK
Rick554
Win the FRIGGIN WAR!!!!

[socialism_is_error]

"...as new media takes a seat at the adults table."

I think, instead:

"...as the adults arrive at the media nursery."

as well as what Sir Wink said.

[thebronze]

FNC has been sucking hard for quite a while now.

They just suck less than the rest.

[Cincinnati_Bob]

Man, took a scan of news.google last night, and virtually everything on there was like toyoko rose..
eg.
"Jury convicts Padilla, handing a win to the Bush Administration" WTF? "How about Jury rightously convicts terrorist". How about Jury convicts Padilla, who gone undetected by the Clinton admin and picked up by the Bush admin might have set off a dirty bomb in Your neighborhood.

One after the other, the entire page. As Wink says, any story on pretty much any subject holds 'the current administration' responsible. It is relentless. Minute after minute, day after day. If you can't think for yourself you're screwed.

One thing is if the Dems do get the WH in 09, the news will all be good.

[Deltabravo]

You know, we have a hurricane headed toward us here in Texas. Dean is coming our way. ("Nyeeearggggh!")

Anyhow, Pres. Bush declared a preemptive state of emergency. I'm waiting for the headlines: "Hurricane wracks Texas as Bush vacations." "Bush Declares State of Emergency. KBR Profits." I'm sure it's his fault we even have hurricanes.
And the MSM calls us "Sheeple."

[dianainsa]

This is for the FOX flunkies who spend their time trolling for stories on the blogs. FOX is the only news channel we watch in our house, but we are watching much less of it these days. Anyone who thinks that FOX is Conservative is a fool, they have a few Conservative news people, but we consider Rupert Murdoch and most of his employees to be nothing more than a Trojan Horse.
If you watch them long enough, their true colours become apparent. Chris Wallace? Shepard Smith? Steve Centanni showed his agenda today when he gave the General in charge of the Texas National Guard a hard time about his assets not being available for Hurricane Dean because they were in Iraq. We used to watch Catherine Herridge until she went off the deep-end about gun control.
I am not suggesting that these people have to be in lock-step with the way we feel, but it isn't their job to let us know how THEY feel either.
I constantly see Brit Hume, John Gibson and O'Reilly stealing their stories from the blogs-usually a few days late-and never see any attribution. They are going to fool less and less people as time goes on. And trust me, the idiot antics of Shepard Smith and O'Reilly are not going to get viewers back.

[Ymarsakar]

Jimbo should really get into dialogue with Fox News to find out why they didn't attribute if they discovered the story at blackfive.

[Cincinnati_Bob]

Dianainusa. I agree with you.

When FOX started out they were THE channel. THe only ones the military woudl even bother with early on. Then they screwed up by not firing Rivera for revealing the travel plans of the Marines as the initial stages of the war were on-going. (Staged or not)

At this point; Yes, it is obvious they succumb to opinion polls and ratings as much as the next guy, and they may be designed to be a Trojan Horse as you suggest. I haven't watched them in a long time. The shows were too annoying. Sheppards around the world in 80 seconds or whatever it was. Just give me the damn news, I don't care if it's 8 seconds or 80 minutes. eh?

I've sure thought more than once Hannity was such a creature by giving So much airtime to the birdbrains and I finally stopped listening when Hannity became the daily Hillary update. It is still?
The standard Hillary storyline is a 'negative' story about her to get you to read on, then all of a sudden, you're hearing about how the bitch has gotten religion or some such nonsense.

I emailed Sean and told him I had very much considered he was working for the DNC with so much free airtime given to the nutjobs and the campaigners.

We need some reasoned intelligent discussion and it just isn't coming across the airwaves in my opinion. The only place it is available is on the net when you can find it in places such as B5, Winds of Change, etc, etc. And not a whole lot of etcs.

The real problem of course are the citizens who seem to suck this stuff up through their straws like chocolate malts. There will always be those at the top taking and in the end there need to be more at the bottom rejecting.