Wednesday, October 19, 2011

Sensationalism in the news

Fox News posted an article with the title "Biden Evokes Sexual, Violent Imagery Again in Push for $447 Jobs Bill".

This is a pretty low shot by a company that constantly sells articles about sex and violence.  For example, currently on its homepage are the following headlines:


And on their U.S. page, a couple more:
To be fair, I tried the same exercise on the New York Times.  Here's what I got:
And on their National page:
The first few headlines are typical of Fox News: when it's not outrageously partisan, it's outrageously sensational.  And to accuse Biden of being sensational is pure hypocrisy.

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