Entertainment website Fox News, is taking note of what a respectable, credible journalism website had to say about Jihad “not being a leading cause of death”….from FoxNews.com:

“A new online journalism course on Islam appears to downplay the threat posed by global jihad groups, suggesting reporters keep the death toll from Islamic terrorism in “context” by comparing that toll to the number of people killed every year by malaria, HIV/AIDS and other factors.

“Jihad is not a leading cause of death in the world,” the online course cautions studying journalists.

While that is technically true, researchers at the Culture and Media Institute who examined the online program took exception to that and numerous other claims made in the Poynter News University course.

Dan Gainor, vice president at the institute, said the course is sweeping these threats “under the rug,” while watering down the section on jihad with inappropriate comparisons.

“Infectious disease, we have government structures to prevent that, and that’s great … in radical Islam we have not even one organization but several organizations that are constantly seeking to kill Americans and others too,” he said. “It seems like journalists should not be involved in trying to downplay that.”

Read more from this hilarious entertainment site here…

Also, here’s a list of actual leading causes of death by the CDC here.

A security guard is seen through a bullet hole in a window of a building where the office of private armoured car company Tiger International is located, after a raid by NATO forces in Kabul December 27, 2010. Afghanistan’s NATO-led force disputed on Monday an Afghan government accusation that foreign forces had violated a security pact by conducting a night raid in Kabul in which two guards were killed.
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Veteran journalist Juan Williams was fired from his job as senior news analyst for National Public Radio late Wednesday because of comments he made about Muslims and terrorism on “The O’Reilly Factor” on Fox News Channel.

NPR said in a statement that Williams’s remarks – including that he gets “worried” and “nervous” when he sees people dressed in Muslim-style clothing on airplanes – “were inconsistent with our editorial standards and practices, and undermined his credibility as a news analyst with NPR.”

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Just four months after becoming the official “Co-President” of MySpace.com, Jason Hirschhorn is leaving the company.

Mr. Hirschhorn’s departure is just the latest blow for the social networking Web site, which the News Corporation bought for a staggering $580 million five years ago.

MySpace has struggled to retain audience and relevance in the shadow of the much more popular Facebook. It averaged about 111 million visitors worldwide in April, while Facebook averaged 519 million, according to ComScore….TechCrunch reported on this last week.

In an interview with National Review’s Peter Robinson, Fox News chief Roger Ailes admitted that the White House may have “legitimate complaints” about the way in which Fox News covers them. Robinson, referencing President Obama’s snub of Fox News last September when he appeared on every major Sunday talk show except for Chris Wallace’s “Fox News Sunday,” told Ailes that the White House is “whining over nothing.” Ailes did not agree: Read about it here

Maybe the editors at FoxNews online need to do a better job of sifting through the OBVIOUS news stories that seem to be making headlines at every other “objective” news channel and site on the planet.

In the biggest scandal ever to hit Iraq’s security contractor Blackwater, the NY Times has reported that 2 ex-workers have accused the private security company of defrauding the government “for years” by filing “bogus receipts, double billing for the same services and charging government agencies for strippers and prostitutes, according to court documents unsealed this week.”

Since Fox News had a heavy penchant for reporting on the moronic Acorn-Pimp-Prostitute “undercover-video” episodes, maybe AT LEAST their website can start living up to that bogus “Fair & Balanced” trademark, that way their readers won’t wise-up and start turning elsewhere for news. Amazingly, a quick trip to their website reveals not one single headline about the biggest scandal to rock the biggest Security contractor currently operating in Iraq.

Shepard Smith, a popular host on the Fox News roster of TV Personalities, who are in-fact employed actors posing as “news anchors”, decided to cut to his “Assignment Manager” Tim Gaughan to “report” the arrest of James O’Keefe.

Instead of actual news-reporting on the case however, Tim Gaughan starts off by saying “This is a weird one…”, and Shepard Smith confirms “Yeah it’s a weird press release.” hereby suggesting “not all is right with this case.”

The first 10 seconds of this clip alone are a pure, blatant example of suggestive in-accurate reporting at it’s worst, then sadly, it continues down the same “suggestive” path. We’re treated to lines such as:

“The FBI is “alledging” that James O’Keefe – you’ve heard of him, our readers have heard of him”, again – Gaughan – what are the facts? The viewer still wishes to know. Instead, Gaughan launches into O’Keefe’s background “he’s a Conservative uncover film-maker, who exposed ACORN”, again, here we are well into the clip. Little or no actual facts on the case are reported, then ends the piece with the following blatant in-accuracies:

“VAUGHN: [It's a] very weird story that probably needs a lot of context and a lot of looking into, which is what we’re going to do here. I just wanted to get it on the record with it right now.

SHEP SMITH: So, they’re saying basically, they’re in there — It sounds as if what they’re saying is, they’re looking for some ACORN hanky panky and they try to tap into..Mary Landrieu’s telephone to get it.

VAUGHN: That could be [pause...] one way of looking at it, yes.”

Not only is this entertainment-maneuvering that’s irresponsibly disguised as “news reporting”, it’s a flagrant dis-regard of the facts of this actual case. On the visual front, Fox News notably (and not surprisingly), didn’t air a single photo of the arrest suspects in the case, instead they chose to air a photo of Democratic Governnor Mary Landrieu while discussing “arrests”. Fox News also failed to report that O’Keefe was spotted by witnesses to be taking pictures with his cellphone of his two accomplices.

Since Fox News is an Entertainment Cable Network, and not an actual purportedly-to-be-objective “News Network”, we thought we would print the actual facts of the case here, courtesy of The Washington Post:

“Federal investigators charged that James O’Keefe was among four men who created a ruse to enter the lawmaker’s downtown office, saying they needed to repair her telephones. O’Keefe used his cellphone to take pictures of two men involved in the Jan. 25 plot, according to court records unsealed Tuesday. Those men, Joseph Basel and Robert Flanagan, are accused in an FBI agent’s sworn affidavit of impersonating telephone company workers, while O’Keefe and another man, Stan Dai, are accused of aiding the plot.”

The evidence of blatant, false and slanted reporting by the popular Fox News Entertainment Network are available right here in the clip:

Since this is a website that’s devoted to Journalism and not Entertainment Television, it’s the last time we’ll probably address Fox News here. If we do address this channel in the future, we hope it’s to report that the network was forced out of business by the United States Government for conducting an illegal business model under false pretenses to the US public.

UPDATE 2/18:

Even better, it turned out Fox News mis-construed the footage so much that, Mr. O’Keefe wasn’t entering ACORN offices in “pimp attire” at all. In fact, he was dressed “conservatively”.

Fox News, a “moneymaking juggernaut” according to the LA Times, had about 20 employees in Haiti by midweek, nine of them on-air personalities. However, only one of those correspondents seemed able to get into the heart of the capital, with much of the reporting coming from staging areas and the secure airport.

CNN, in contrast, succeeded much as it did five years ago, when it dominated coverage of the Indian Ocean tsunami. CNN had nine correspondents and anchors and some 40 others on the ground, along with generators and equipment that allowed it to broadcast pictures far superior to the Fox News’ grainy images. Read more at the LA Times