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Internal Fox news emails show concerted efforts to mislead about and undermine the Obama admin
2011 Jul 18, 3:44am 2,689 views 26 comments
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Done!
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2011 Jul 22, 4:56am
I want honest Journalism back in this country.
But with out FOX, we would all be under the brainwashing waves of the Greenie Calipukes selling us fat free carcinogenic cupcakes.
Oh, and do tell us what reasons you think the Obama admin is undermining itself? I'd love to hear this one.
Oh, I'll play your game, though I don't know why: Obama has governed as a moderate conservative, somewhat to the right of Richard Nixon, and has made too many concessions to the right.
http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/07/22/obama-nixon/
shrekgrinch says
Fox is a biased effort, whether you agree with them or not
Yes. That's true.
Okay then, there we have it. Thats the point of this thread.
shrekgrinch says
Take away his funding and Media Matters would cease to exist.
Who cares how its funded if analysis of the effort shows impartiality? Your mistake in this case is to employ the tactics to a organization that you do to individuals, apply guilt by association & ad hominems... But its effort & record exists in stark contrast to Fox where every pore oozes bias and misleading statements. Anyway, you've already admitted as much.
What's the correction? Perry did say what he said, right? And if that is what they are reporting (Rick Perry said, "X"....), then its a fact that they are reporting Perry said 'X' that nobody can dispute.
And there you have it folks, what passes for facts in SG's world. Its not important that a thing be true, only that it sounds like something palatable to him and has been repeated.
And that, by the way, is entirely the thrust of the point of this thread, that Fox news does not care to report the facts of any situation, only to repeat and substantiate the talking points of the Right. Its nothing more than a lobbying faction of a politically oriented effort. “News Corp is not a news company at all, but a global media empire that employs its newspapers — and in the US, Fox News — as a lobbying arm.â€
So anyway, I would like to agree with you and end this argument, but then we would both be wrong.
Vicente
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2011 Jul 23, 7:51am
I don't know why Fox News plays games about this.
We know they have bias, they know they have bias. Why not just drop the pretense remove "fair & balanced" from their web pages and be done with it? Just specify up front it's the right-wing mouthpiece of Rupert Murdoch via Roger Ailes.
marcus
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2011 Jul 23, 8:44am
The difference between the bias of CNN versus the bias of Fox ?
CNN believes they are being unbiased and endeavors to to be unbiased. Any outright bias would be considered a negative and would likely prevent the reporter from being promoted.
Fox has a strong anti democrat (now anti Obama) bias that they fully acknowledge. It is part of Ailles stated intent. He has always been a political operative.
How can someone think that CNN is a liberal version of FOX, if the intent is not there. Is it because it's a secret ? A conspiracy ? A secret hidden from all moderates and liberals ? Only extreme right wingers can spot it ?
Ohhhhh, I get it now. I just can't see the CNN bias.
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2011 Jul 23, 8:48am
My gift to you guys, it's called the channel button.
Use it in good health, no need to thank me.
elliemae
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2011 Jul 23, 8:59am
My gift to you guys, it's called the channel button. Use it in good health, no need to thank me.
This thread wasn't about whether or not a person possesses the ability to change the channel. It's about a station that dictates the content of its employees. If a purported news station dictates content, it's not unbiased.
Faux News has admitted that much of its content is entertainment. However, to demand that the "news reporters" present material in a certain manner violates the ethics of news reporting.
Unfortunately, we're bombarded from both the right & the left with entertainment reporting on news channels. It's up to the viewer to tell the difference.
Unfortunately, some people aren't able to do so.
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2011 Jul 23, 9:09am
Unfortunately, we're bombarded from both the right & the left with entertainment reporting on news channels. It's up to the viewer to tell the difference.
Unfortunately, some people aren't able to do so.
Or just maybe they agree with the content, but you would love to tell them can't watch it though, aye?
elliemae
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2011 Jul 23, 10:41am
Or just maybe they agree with the content, but you would love to tell them can't watch it though, aye?
Translation please?
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Fox Emails Show Attempts To Slant News Against Obama And His Policies...
But you all knew this anyway, right?
http://mediamatters.org/research/201107160005?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+mediamatters%2Flatest+%28Media+Matters+-+Latest+Items%29&utm_content=Google+Feedfetcher
"SAMMON EMAIL INSTRUCTED FOX JOURNALISTS TO USE GOP TERM TO DESCRIBE "PUBLIC OPTION""
"Michael Clemente, Senior VP For News, Replied That Sammon's Third Phrasing Was "The Preferred Way To Say It, Write It, Use It.""
"Sammon Later Admitted That He Had Lied On-Air "About Whether Barack Obama Really Advocated Socialism." Speaking on a 2009 Mediterranean cruise sponsored by a right-wing college, Sammon described his attempts the previous year to link Obama to "socialism" as "mischievous speculation." Sammon acknowledged that "privately" he had believed that the socialism allegation was "rather far-fetched.""
yadda yadda yadda...
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