Because the majority of people will not notice, and many of us live in a majority-rule society. You can't fool all the people all of the time, but pay the right ones and the rest will fall in line.

Actually it is worse than that, most people do notice the lies but feel powerless to stop it. Mostly because they actually are powerless to stop it.

Indeed. You can write a letter to your congressman. Comcast can write a cheque.

Majority rule? No. We live in an oligarchy. The elections are a farce. They've been engineered and Gerrymandered into intractable stagnation.

My favorite chart lately:

http://junkcharts.typepad.com/junk_charts/2014/04/convention...

Another one like this: http://imgur.com/7vXJApW

I didn't see this broadcast, but if I were a director and I wanted to influence perception to the opposite of what the data shows, I'd flash this chart just long enough so that everyone sees the trend, but not long enough that they can grok the numbers.

The "saving grace" is that the numbers actually contrast to the background and are easier to read. FOX could learn a thing or two about the Reuters chart by making their numbers fade into the background.