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Fox News Is Showing Scenes from "Independence Day" To Illustrate US Bank Building Blowing Up

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Fox News Is Showing Scenes from "Independence Day" To Illustrate US Bank Building Blowing Up

Fox News is actually airing clips taken from the movie "Independence Day" showing aliens blowing up the Library Tower/US Bank Building in Los Angeles during their reports on the alleged foiling of a terrorist plot to fly planes into it.

Not being in Los Angeles, I find it hysterical, but if I lived in Los Angeles and/or worked in that building, I'd probably be angry about showing a building in my city blowing up during a NEWS broadcast.

It's amazing to me an editor at a news channel would assume this would be a great idea. Let's blend scenes from a fictional movie and show it in what is supposed to be a factual news report.

Yeah, that's professionalism and class.
 
Re: Fox News Is Showing Scenes from "Independence Day" To Illustrate US Bank Building Blowing Up

Typical Fox News crap but good example of how they fabricate their stories to fit their agenda.
 
Re: Fox News Is Showing Scenes from "Independence Day" To Illustrate US Bank Building Blowing Up

> Typical Fox News crap but good example of how they fabricate
> their stories to fit their agenda.

And why should anyone be surprised by this?
 
Re: Fox News Is Showing Scenes from "Independence Day" To Illustrate US Bank Building Blowing Up

> Fox News is actually airing clips taken from the movie
> "Independence Day" showing aliens blowing up the Library
> Tower/US Bank Building in Los Angeles during their reports
> on the alleged foiling of a terrorist plot to fly planes
> into it.
>
> Not being in Los Angeles, I find it hysterical, but if I
> lived in Los Angeles and/or worked in that building, I'd
> probably be angry about showing a building in my city
> blowing up during a NEWS broadcast.
>
> It's amazing to me an editor at a news channel would assume
> this would be a great idea. Let's blend scenes from a
> fictional movie and show it in what is supposed to be a
> factual news report.
>
> Yeah, that's professionalism and class.
>

Also a nice way of saying "We're too cheap to use our own computer workstations to make an actual mockup of this, so here's a clip from a movie available on DVD from another division of our parent company!" The next time there's a volcano story, expect to see Anakin Skywalker falling in the lava as an illustration of what can happen if you get too close.

What a joke.
 
Re: Fox News Is Showing Scenes from "Independence Day" To Illustrate US Bank Building Blowing Up

> > Typical Fox News crap but good example of how they
> fabricate
> > their stories to fit their agenda.
>
> And why should anyone be surprised by this?
>
ABC and NBC both questioned the timing of this old news by dubya and the fact that the mayor did not know about this. Did Fox????
 
Re: Fox News Is Showing Scenes from "Independence Day" To Illustrate US Bank Building Blowing Up

> Fox News is actually airing clips taken from the movie
> "Independence Day" showing aliens blowing up the Library
> Tower/US Bank Building in Los Angeles during their reports
> on the alleged foiling of a terrorist plot to fly planes
> into it.
>
> Not being in Los Angeles, I find it hysterical, but if I
> lived in Los Angeles and/or worked in that building, I'd
> probably be angry about showing a building in my city
> blowing up during a NEWS broadcast.
>
> It's amazing to me an editor at a news channel would assume
> this would be a great idea. Let's blend scenes from a
> fictional movie and show it in what is supposed to be a
> factual news report.
>
> Yeah, that's professionalism and class.
>

Wow.. Fox News has you by the balls Phillip.. as much as you hate them and talk trash about them.. you sure as hell watch them a lot.

If I hated a tv channel that much.. I simply wouldnt watch them. period.
 
Fox, DISH, a la carte

> Wow.. Fox News has you by the balls Phillip.. as much as you
> hate them and talk trash about them.. you sure as hell watch
> them a lot.
>
> If I hated a tv channel that much.. I simply wouldnt watch
> them. period.

If he has DISH "America's Top 60" you need not fear for him. Sometime
in the last two days DISH moved Fox News up to a more expensive tier
and replaced it with some kind of "documentary channel" that is so
sleazy that it must have come along as a freebie for their paying to
carry some other channel.

Fox had been in that "basic" tier only a short time; maybe some kind
of experiment since it replaced MSNBC in the tier. I tried watching
it (Fox) a few times while it was there and found it generally un-
inspiring. Kind of a cheap imitation of stuff that CNN does. That's
a technical/production values judgement; NOT concerning content.

From the content perspective, I felt that Fox was playing to the typical
American Public School System Certificate of Completion (not Diploma)
holder. Which makes me wonder...if it is true that they used cuts from
"Independence Day", might they not have more effectively used bits from
some old superheroes cartoon to illustrate the L.A. "threat"?

Though I wish DISH would quit screwing around with their program lineup,
I won't miss fix.

BTW: Did my own count on watchable channels in the "Top 60" tier and found
that I regularly use only 11 out of the 60 (excluding local network
channels that see pretty frequent use). Bring on a la carte!!!!<P ID="signature">______________
Artificial intelligence is NO match for natural stupidity!</P>
 
Re: Fox News Is Showing Scenes from "Independence Day" To Illustrate US Bank Building Blowing Up

> Wow.. Fox News has you by the balls Phillip.. as much as you
> hate them and talk trash about them.. you sure as hell watch
> them a lot.
>
Some people watch just for laughs -- just to see how low they will go.

Though on the other hand -- in Fox News' eyes, a viewer is a viewer, no matter how much they love or hate them.
 
Re: Fox News Is Showing Scenes from "Independence Day" To Illustrate US Bank Building Blowing Up

> Wow.. Fox News has you by the balls Phillip.. as much as you
> hate them and talk trash about them.. you sure as hell watch
> them a lot.

Actually, he could have found out by watching Countdown on MSNBC, which reported this as part of the nightly "World's Worst" feature Thursday evening.<P ID="signature">______________


</P>
 
Re: Fox News Is Showing Scenes from "Independence Day" To Illustrate US Bank Building Blowing Up

Keith Olbermann had some fun with this over at MSNBC. In his usual tongue-in-cheek way he made "Faux News Channel" one of that day's nominees for the 'coveted title' of "Worst...Person...InTheWORRRRRRRLLLLLLDDDDD!"

Also had time to throw in yet another dig at O'Reilly.
 
Re: Fox, DISH, a la carte

> If he has DISH "America's Top 60" you need not fear for him.
> Sometime
> in the last two days DISH moved Fox News up to a more
> expensive tier
> and replaced it with some kind of "documentary channel" that
> is so
> sleazy that it must have come along as a freebie for their
> paying to
> carry some other channel.

That's because they demanded a 300-400% rate increase to continue carriage of Fox News, per viewer.
 
Re: Fox News Is Showing Scenes from "Independence Day" To Illustrate US Bank Building Blowing Up

> Actually, he could have found out by watching Countdown on
> MSNBC, which reported this as part of the nightly "World's
> Worst" feature Thursday evening.

Bingo. If I want to be tortured, I'll watch Lady Heather on CSI. :)

How much one watches Fox isn't the important thing here. Actually running movie clip footage during a news report is.

Russ should know I'm not big fan of cable news these days, if he reads the messages in here.
 
Re: Fox News Is Showing Scenes from "Independence Day" To Illustrate US Bank Building Blowing Up

> Also had time to throw in yet another dig at O'Reilly.

Actually it was to Fox itself who edited 23 seconds of standing ovation over a comment at the King funeral down to nine seconds and then allowed Morton Kondracke (which Fox claims is a LIBERAL panelist) to remark that the audience must have rejected the comment because he would have expected more applause from it, not just nine seconds worth. Of course, that was after Fox chopped the clip down -and- of course, nobody bothered to inform the viewers that was what they did.

Kondracke's comments about it were based on the misplaced assumption you can trust the control room at Fox News.

Fool me once, can't ... can't get fooled again. :)
 
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