In this clip Fox News anchors get ahead of themselves while covering the June Supreme Court decision on Obamacare. Fox is undercut by its own coverage when reporters read further ahead into the document of the decision. The document states that while Obamacare is unconstitutional, a major component will live on as a tax. It seemed the reporters couldn't be bothered to read past the first few pages of the document. The information on Obamacare surviving as a tax could be found on page 4. Fox reporters were eager to be the first to report the ruling and didn’t notice this important detail until after they'd given the "faux" news.
To be "fair and balanced," the clip left out the fact that CNN made the same mistake and took much longer than Fox had to realize the error.
Here, under the Society of Professional Journalists Code of Ethics, Fox failed to "test the accuracy of information from all sources and exercise care to avoid inadvertent error."
Here, Fox News reporters claim Obamacare will cause 74% of doctors to quit, retire or work part-time, a fact unsupported by the very polls Megyn Kelley loves to cite. This clip contains no hard evidence at all; rather, passionate and unsupported claims are portrayed. Fox’s logic is quite flawed as a doctor refusing to work due to a lack of pay directly violates the Hippocratic Oath.
The Hippocratic Oath calls for a doctor to treat a patient for the benefit of the sick rather than the benefit of themselves: "Into whatever homes I go, I will enter them for the benefit of the sick."
Once again, there’s an absence of the real examples of doctors that disapprove of Obamacare.
In addition, the group Doctors For America, a non-partisan commission of physicians and medical students, actually supports the Affordable Care Act and ask Democrats and Republicans to unite and make the best of health care reform. They seek to put patients before politics and have a presence in 49 states.
The Hippocratic Oath calls for a doctor to treat a patient for the benefit of the sick rather than the benefit of themselves: "Into whatever homes I go, I will enter them for the benefit of the sick."
Once again, there’s an absence of the real examples of doctors that disapprove of Obamacare.
In addition, the group Doctors For America, a non-partisan commission of physicians and medical students, actually supports the Affordable Care Act and ask Democrats and Republicans to unite and make the best of health care reform. They seek to put patients before politics and have a presence in 49 states.
An enterprising Youtube user does our work for us with this clip. Using a "who’s who" of Fox contributors and anchors, the clip exposes the falseness of Bill O’Reilly's claim that no Fox News employee ever said anyone without health insurance would potentially serve time in jail under the laws of the Affordable Care Act.
The user regrettably couldn't show O’Reilly’s reaction to this assortment of clips. It's entirely possible that O'Reilly never saw this presentation.
Each clip lacks context as well. It doesn't show the whole of each interview from which the parts of this video are taken. That could be framing in itself because certain information is not shown. However, Politifact analyzed O'Reilly's boast and found his comments to be graded as "Pants On Fire!" Fox correspondents included in this particular video clip found to have made those claims are Sean Hannity, Paul Gigot, Glenn Beck and Andrew Napolitano.
Fox News asks if Obamacare will punish lifestyle choices(Link for video)
In this video from Fox News, a group of contributors and political analysts — presumably the majority of them sharing the same political views — sit at a round table to debate health care. They cite several quotes from contributors to an Associated Press story.These experts in the health care field are framed as people who share the same views as the Fox panel members. In the clip differing opinions are regarded as completely wrong.
Bob Beckel, the one openly leftist contributor to the panel, begins to bring up other points brought up in the AP story and is quickly shut down by other panel members. Beckel began to say that, as the article states, those who are obese or smokers will die earlier than health-conscious individuals. He argued this would save other people money money that will be needed to care for those individuals in their old age when they begin to develop health problems such as Alzheimer's disease. Most of the Fox panel portrays this AP story as something that strictly followed their conservative bias and something that spoke out against the Affordable Care Act. The bulk of the story was much more non-partisan, expressing the opinions of doctors, economists and bioethicists on both sides of the issue.
The panel ends its discussion by referring to comments President Barack Obama once made about his grandmother. At one time, Obama said his grandmother perhaps didn't need hip replacement surgery. These comments are taken completely out of context. Obama was actually referring to moral issues that rise when paying for expensive procedures for the terminally ill. The panel frames Obama as someone who is cold and uncaring toward the elderly, especially his own relatives, by leaving out the context of his statements.
By not allowing Beckel to speak his mind and opinion in regards to this issue, the fox panel fails to "support the open exchange of views, even views they find repugnant." This falls short of the Society of Professional Journalists Code of Ethics.
By framing Obama as a cold and uncaring individual, conveying his comments in a way that they were completely void of context, Fox breaks one of the foundations of the Society of Professional Journalists Code of Ethics Deliberate: "Distortion is never permissible."
Fox News discusses the effects of ObamaCare on workers(Link for video)
In this clip from Fox, anchors and some contributors discuss how Obamacare will affect businesses. Since the segment was presented on Fox News, there is immediate suspicion of a conservative bias. The experts include the author of a book titled “Beating Obamacare”, the CEO of the National Federation of Independent Businesses, a former budget office director and the CEO of Whole Foods.
All these contributors have a stake in seeing Obamacare fail and they all call it something that goes against the fundamentals of capitalism. The CEO of Whole Foods even went as far as to call it fascism, though he retracted his statements later.
The contributors make suspicious statements regarding 50 workers fired from one business, 100 workers fired from another. Fox doesn't provide any evidence for their fact claims other than ambiguous footage of people entering and working at those businesses.They lack credibility and proof that could have been made up by focusing the piece on the people directly affected. It would have been beneficial to include interviews with workers who had been fired from those businesses and those who still worked there and worried for their jobs.
Under the Society of Professional Journalists Code of Ethics, Fox had the opportunity to "give voice to the voiceless" but failed to use "unofficial sources of information" to report on these issues.
Mike Huckabee interviews a private doctor for her take on Obamacare. The doctor complains that private practice doctors like herself are being demoted to work at ordinary hospitals. She frames this as a poor means for developing and nurturing patient care relationships but there is suspicion that her biggest problem with relocating her skills to a hospital is the pay cut she is likely to receive. It's true, doctors who work in private practice are more likely to make more money but this is based only upon their freedom to act, not their earning power.
The doctor goes on to make the claim that Obamacare will result in every American’s personal medical records becoming public information. This would clearly and directly violate doctor-patient confidentiality. The clip leaves out that to access any government database requires an official request to a commission for the Freedom of Information Act(FOIA) and that in itself can always be denied.
