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[Marc.Knight]

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,589377,00.html?mep

[EvB]

How very FOX to talk about it from the POV of "This little piggy is gonna cost us all big bucks!"

Good lord - I mean - really - they even LEAD with that - it's not an "and oh BTW"

[Marc.Knight]

How very FOX to talk about it from the POV of "This little piggy is gonna cost us all big bucks!"

Good lord - I mean - really - they even LEAD with that - it's not an "and oh BTW"

lol.

[MV/Liberace!]

How very FOX to talk about it from the POV of "This little piggy is gonna cost us all big bucks!"

Good lord - I mean - really - they even LEAD with that - it's not an "and oh BTW"

i don't think that's necessarily a fox gimmick so much as it's just a journalism gimmick in general. 

i know from my own experiences in a newsroom that a news director will hammer people to take an otherwise self explanatory story and give it some sort of bullshit twist that supposedly makes it more relevant or pertinent to the reader/listener/viewer.  this is especially prevalent as a newsroom attempts to take a national story and shoehorn it into something of local concern.  the whole journalism industry is bullshit, and people who have never seen how a story goes from nonexistence to existence or how it is manipulated from beginning to end would be astonished that they ever gave the news as much of their attention as they did, or assigned as much credibility to it as they did.  as i looked at this story, i could just HEAR the conversation in the fox newsroom meeting.  goosebumps.