Yellow Journalism, the Veterans Administration, and @FoxNews

Yellow Journalism is news written to purpose rather than to facts and Fox does that in its patently predictable way right from the top since the title is lying from the top.  It assumes from the top 'a wasteful pattern is repeating' but that's not true and the idea is presented to confirm it with false facts in the body of the article.  (Fox News:  Another government hospital runs over budget, repeating a wasteful pattern)

Construction of the new Army medical center at Fort Bliss in El Paso is almost two years behind schedule and could be more than $100 million over budget before it’s completed.

- Fox

OK ... and so what?  Show me a construction project which ever comes in under-budget ... but it just doesn't happen.  Besides, the Army doesn't build such facilities and maybe you should have looked for the union label if you wanted it completed on time.

Two years is an awfully long time for our nation’s heroes to wait for new hospital beds. And Donald Trump’s tax returns notwithstanding, $100 million is still an awful lot of taxpayer cabbage.

- Fox

The second line of the article does provide cabbage but it's cole slaw instead of a meal since there's no real information in it.  No-one in the country gives a flying fuck about the nation's heroes and it's a stupid thing to say to anyone who actually goes to VA and needs it.  One thing any of us know:  Fox News is never there.

$100 million is such a tiny piece of a budget it would even pay the costs of kiddie porno for the generals.

One might argue that at least the William Beaumont Army Medical Center is no Aurora, Colorado, Veterans Affairs hospital, still unfinished, with the meter running on more than $1 billion in cost overruns and years past its estimated original completion date.

- Fox

That undocumented number smells like fish when it's one billion over the budget because then we ask how fucking much was originally budgeted for a hospital anyway.  Apparently this one was supposed to document the claim of a 'repeating pattern' but we only see two construction projects and no significant documentation regarding either of them.

Still, the troubles at Fort Bliss should come as no surprise. A check on the past two military hospital projects — in Killeen and San Antonio — shows the same budget bloat and dilatory scheduling.

- Fox

Ah, here we have two more and with even less documentation to complete the article.  Every word of that Fox News case has been excerpted here and there are hordes of blithering bozos watching Fox News who take every word of it as Gospel truth.

Use of 'dilatory' is a brief attempt to sound like a writer but a real writer would have stuck to the point since any vagaries in the VA scheduling process have nothing whatever to do with physical construction projects and the use of uncommon vocabulary has no more purpose than obfuscation of the point.

I will be back at a VA hospital in about a week because I desperately need their services and cannot get them any other way.  One thing I know for sure is I will see many who never intended to be heroes and a second thing I know for sure is Fox News will not be there.  It's a whole lot easier to talk shit about heroes than to ever actually do anything to help.