Fox News: Hard to defend

Bill O'Reilly's "Chinese water torture" of a television show attracts on average2 million US viewers each and every night. That's a lot of people.

Fine. If you want to watch that type of stuff, welI, I guess that's why Murdoch and Ailes created Fox in the first place. Fox is the cable channel this is, in part, for people who like to think of themselves as "informed" when actually they aren't, at least when compared with other TV viewers. I'll bet some of Fox's audience still believes Saddam was behind 9/11 (um....he wasn't)

But when those 2 million viewers are repeatedly told absolute lies and slanderous falsehoods about historical events by the host of a show on Fox News, that to me is wrong, and they should be called out. And when the show changes the written transcript of said episode to prevent the host's screwups from being brought to the public's attention, that to me is every bit as wrong.

Here's a link to a website whose operators somehow get some sucker(s) to watch the O'Reilly Factor each and every night, and do actual fact-checking (yes I know: very unusual) to catch Fox's errors and lies. Last week another site found some really weird stuff going on. Slightly scary stuff, actually, concerning O'Reilly's lies about a WWII massacre of US troops by the German army. You need to watch the entire clip of Olbermann to get the full impact of deceit by Fox News.