an open letter to fox news

Dear Sirs and Madams.
Yet another report filed on the Fox News website on 16 June claimed that 1900 people had died in violence in Afghanistan so far this year.
It's not the first time you have published this claim.
In fact only 200 people have died in Afghanistan this year.
Another 1700 terrorists, and their wives and girlfriends, died trying to kill those 200 people.
Your most recent version of this erroneous report had as usual been filed by an Associated Press stringer.
Ah yes.
There's lies, damned lies, and then there's the Associated Press.
Let me this way put it.
It was disingenuous, even mendacious of the Associated Press to attempt to inflate the death toll from Afghanistan in the manner cited above.
It was neglectful, even grossly incompetent, of Fox News to publish the false Associated Press figure.
On the same day as you, who are essentially an insincere anodyne right wing station, on the same day as you sanctioned this piece of Associated Press pro Jihadi propaganda, on the very same day I say, the insincere anodyne left wing station CNN also published the very same Associated Press report.
But someone from CNN appears to have taken the trouble to read the Associated Press report before publishing the untrue death toll figure.
CNN published the same report but edited out the manipulation of the statistics which the Associated Press had been endeavouring to pass off as news.
In fact for the past few months CNN has been removing the fake Afghan death toll from its Associated Press reports whenever the Associated Press tries to slip it in.
So here we see the normally quisling CNN doing a better job than the supposedly pro American Fox News.
You people aren't minding your shop.
James Healy