The Occupational Safety & Health Administration launched an effort to prevent heat illnesses among outdoor workers, and at face value, this wouldn't be especially noteworthy. On the contrary, this is a basic part of OSHA's mission, in this case, the agency recommends, "Water. Rest. Shade. The work can't get done without them."
So why am I mentioning this? Because, as Steve M. noticed, Fox News' website put its own unique spin on what seems like a fairly mundane story.
Obviously, if the Obama administration is trying to prevent heat strokes, the relevant takeaway is that the president is attacking Americans who work outside, right?
Fox Nation has an amazing track record of putting silly spins on routine news stories, but going after the administration over heat strokes is breaking new ground.
I'm not sure whether to be annoyed by Fox's ridiculous standards or impressed with its creativity.
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I vote for being impressed by Fox News creativity. I am sure I will hear the spin from some of my relatives in 5....4.....3....2....1.......
Notice the caption refers to the Obama regime and not the Obama administration. A regime is how we refer to the illegitmate government of a dictator not the elected government of a democracy. Class all the way. Nothing but classy.
It is the "culture"section, this just goes to show the culture of classiness at Fox News
That or the culture of vile bacteria, one of the two.
These people are unbelievable .
The teabaggers will now work in the blazing sun without water all day and drop dead of heat stroke to prove a point .
They have obviously been in the sun too long already to write copy like that.
Seriously how stupid can you be . This is common knowledge to anyone who has lived in a sunbelt climate .
It will kill you.
First, "they" (FOX News) didn't write it. Second, if "they" are "stupid" for writing such an article, how "stupid" must you think OSHA must be for spending thousands of dollars (probably 10's) on training, material, apps, etc. on such that as you say is "common knowledge."
If such a campaign prevents hospitalization of even a small number of outdoor workers, especially prolonged hospitalization such as watergirl boater describes below, it will more than pay for itself.
Freddie, I'm with you. It is sick-n-effin-tired who thinks it is stupid to spend effort and money on something that is "common knowledge."
The article did not originate at FOX News but was re-posted from another source. The headline did change but not much:
The headline of original article from CNS News:
The headline as it was re-posted on FOX News:
The article itself seemed fairly neutral to me. It was neither praising nor criticizing the administration. The online thing I could find someone might object to would be the shortening of "Administration Warns" to "Regime:"
If I am wrong, please leave a comment detailing where I am mistaken. Thanks.
just read the stupid headline. that's all these morons read.
RobDon Thank you for your erudite defense of Faux Nooze . They need all the assistance they can get .
It will though shortly become a talking point that your crazy uncle will send you in the form of an vitriolic email .
Do me a favor and click on some of the informative articles surrounding said post on the Faux Nation website .
You will quickly ascertain that there is a certain editorial drift on the website .
sick-n-effin-tired, I'm not defending, I'm stating facts. There's a difference. Care to tell me where I'm factually wrong in post #3?
Don't freakin exhaust yourselves picking a mundate figtht over construed partisan leading words.
You make a valid point, locknpost, but I'm not exhausted. I see it less as a "mundate fight over construed partisan leading words," and more a discussions on facts.
The ONLY word FOXNews seems to have added to the article mentioned above was the word "regime" to the headline, everything else was not written by FOXNews. The article is less partisan and more a factual article. I've challenge others to point out the partisan and no one has (unless, as I mentioned, it is the single word "regime.")
Every time I think that this crowd can't go lower they do. I figure they've added a few levels to "Dante's Inferno".......
For a long time I've said that Obama can solve his Republican problem simply by coming out in favor of oxygen. This thing comes damned close, but I'm sure we can do better than politically-motivated self-inflicted heatstroke.
steve, there is nothing creative about this at all. it is just blisteringly stupid. so don't be impressed at all. be annoyed. very annoyed. and angry.
Oh good grief. The feds have been educating about what to do about preventing and treating heat exhaustion and heat stroke since long before there ever was an Obama administration. In fact, some of that training is the only reason I know the difference between heat exhausion and heat stroke and what the symptoms are and what to do if someone exhibits them. Look it up.
yes, I am annoyed by it. In my local paper this week was an article about a local 19 year old college ROTC student that died of heat stroke from running in a race in mild tempatures. He was in hospital for 11 days fighting and in the end lost his life. OSHA is not stupid for putting that in their manual or spending money trying to educate workers. Must have been a slow news day at Faux for them to spend energy spinning this.
When the GOP are learning to do the work that the migrant workers used to do in the southern states, they will need this medical information. While this is allegedly common sense being reinforced, why are athletes still dying during football practice from heat related problems? Ask a paramedic how many cases he or she sees, where the person felt ok then not so much, quite quickly.
Steve, you're missing the evil hidden agenda of the Obama regime: this is the thin edge of the wedge to make people think that global warming is a threat.
Depends on how many people die after reading FOX's article and dismissing heat-stroke advice.
And it also depends on whether you're going to also talk about the troubles Rupert Murdoch is facing in England, still, and whether those cut-throat tactics have infiltrated the American branch of FOX.
can we all agree that the scariest thing about this article is the 78K likes on FBook?
I really wonder why Fox News has turned or maybe always was such a hate machine. I guess that sells more advertising dollars than telling the truth and caring.
I worked outside (hard work) for many, many years in all weather, even 115 degrees. We took seriously the health of workers, but the company kept piling on higher production standards, but that would be really dangerous to not drink water and rest. Basically they sort of force skipping or rushing lunch.
Fox seems to show a preference for businesses to push employees to the limit, even over the line. It seems businesses are reluctant to hire more people, saying "right size" will force even higher productivity. To push the extreme... Oh, when the person dies, then we might replace them?
There's a reason why slavery is historically the most common form of employing labor. From the 'rational' perspective of the bottom line, human life is cheap.