I think this is the "Canary in the mine" story for our Republican Party Fox collaboration “journalism".

Accurate, truthful news is almost non-existent in most of what most people read, hear or watch.

 November 16, 2010

Too Good to Check

By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN

"On Nov. 4, Anderson Cooper did the country a favor. He expertly deconstructed on his CNN show the bogus rumor that President Obama’s trip to Asia would cost $200 million a day. This was an important “story.” It underscored just how far ahead of his time Mark Twain was when he said a century before the Internet, “A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.” But it also showed that there is an antidote to malicious journalism — and that’s good journalism."

 Even local “news” on Fox can be a distorted version of what happened:

Where did the story about ramming and shooting come from?

Also see: “Media Giants: Who owns what?”