The Fox Tone

It's not my usual routine but this morning I woke up, looked out the window to the beautiful day, had my cup of tea and turned on Fox News. My cheery demeanor faded quickly when I started getting yelled at by a news reporter. I watch a lot of news programing and I have never seen a news reporter get so blatantly upset over a story with not much merit. The story I was watching was about an ad that an advocacy group produced which attacked Sarah Palin's family and history. Throughout the cast the correspondent kept making references to ties between the advocacy group and the Obama campaign but never explained how they were connected and didn't give any proof of a connection. The correspondent stated that both parties denied one another's involvement but continued to speak as if the Obama campaign was behind the ad, with corresponding ticker and a running headline that stated "Obama campaign has ties to attack ad." I was quite amazed as I watched the story unfold, it had no merit and they offered no proof of a tie between the Obama campaign and the advocacy group. The whole story was speculation, but if you were flipping through the channels and saw the ticker or heard a few lines of the news cast you would think it was truthful. What really struck me was the way in which the correspondent was telling the story, she had so much anger in her voice and looked visibly upset. I do not watch Fox enough to know if this is the norm for reporters but I was shocked. She induced an emotional response in me even though I knew the story was just speculation and exaggeration. Whether the news report was accurate or not, I am sure many people were upset by the story simply by the way the reporter was speaking. I think it is unprofessional to obviously put your views into a story, not by saying, but by showing.