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AMERICAblog: Netroots Nation calls out FOX: It's not news, it's opinion media.

  • Dave of the Jungle · 1 year ago
    Fox Politburo
  • TheOriginalLiz · 1 year ago
    Nothing upsets a cowardly bully more than to be called on their behavior.
  • ndtovent · 1 year ago
    ROFL! Good for Netroots Nation! Keep up the good work '-)
  • tlsintx · 1 year ago
    fox wingnut media
  • Õ¿Õ · 1 year ago
    OK, you gotta love kos for their ideas. So I want to see the counter like they did to Obama: How Many Days Will Fox Be A No-Show!!

    And while we're at it, I want a running counter on progressive blogs of how long Karla Rove remains on the loose!!

    Time to roast the fatten hog.
  • Õ¿Õ · 1 year ago
    Well, my apologizes but I intuited it was from kos. But it's all the Netroots Nation. I just came up with a couple myself from AMERICABLOG!!!
  • Õ¿Õ · 1 year ago
    Actual journalism went to "opinion media" because of the internet where people can be their own gatekeepers for news. So the pundits like Christ Matthews, Weiner Nation and all the others created very lucrative positions for themselves and their corporate owners. It's all the cable networks and broadcast media.

    Murdoch may enjoy billions now but he's been drunk alot and falling down...
  • Hawk · 1 year ago
    Without putting a stop to Dana Perino and her opinion conferences, this actually IS moot!

    Dana in response to EVERY question "I think"........

    Nobody cares what you think Dana, this isn't FOX NEWS! We're asking you yes or no questions!
  • Õ¿Õ · 1 year ago
    It's all subtle corporate style propaganda. You say "I think" to sound credible without committing. The 'Murkan people wanted a "CEO administration." You know, it always comes back to their stupidity. I can never quit blame the criminals as much as I blame the idiot bush voters.
  • Õ¿Õ · 1 year ago
    anyways
  • Ben Dover · 1 year ago
    Grampa McSame is holding a lil town hall meeting right now and just reaffirmed his position that women cannot be trusted to make decisions concerning their own bodies. He's saying that he supports a full ban on a woman's right to choose, seemingly also saying that those type of decisions should be made by old guys and not the woman.
    Pretty soon he'll be demonstrating that he knows how to peel a banana with his feet.
  • Your_Uncle_Bastard · 1 year ago
    I would like to ask Old Granddad when the same standard will be applied to men? You know, sperm dying in Kleenexes and all that...did he learn NOTHING from the Pythons?
  • Indigo · 1 year ago
    Good for Netroots! I especially enoyed how they scared Fox away. However . . . in the formation of public opinion, Fox might have a statistical edge on Netroots. If facts always triumphed over fears, would Fox TV exist?
  • Õ¿Õ · 1 year ago
    I have never got why so many are afraid. It's really been embarrassing since Sept. 11th how terrified they've been that they've shown the world. Like bush wearing a cowboy hate embarassing all real cowboys everywhere and he's afraid of horses. (I love horses. Their nature, even the way they smell. Rode them bareback as a kid with just hay ropes for a bridle or grabbing thier mane to make them turn whatever direction.) I was only ever angry. I've only been afraid since then how stupid people are here in this country and how little they are citizens, cowering.. Going got tough, we sure showed the rest of the world what we were made of. They're just like hanging out here instead of being responsible citizens so that bodes bad for me.
  • blackwolf · 1 year ago
    We ain't seen nothin' yet. The republicans are riding the aftermath of 9-11 wave and enjoying every minute of it.
  • tofubo · 1 year ago
    almost OT

    http://www.aim.org/media-monitor/silver-sewer-a...

    Silver Sewer Award For Fox

    Media Monitor | By Reed Irvine and Cliff Kincaid | October 11, 1999

    Rupert Murdoch’s timing couldn’t have been worse, or better, depending on your perspective. During a week when he acknowledged that his Fox television programs were a “negative influence” on America, he received a Silver Sewer award from former education secretary Bill Bennett and Senator Joseph Lieberman. In the words of Lieberman, Fox was dishonored for its tireless, tasteless, and ongoing efforts to drag down network programming…
  • Your_Uncle_Bastard · 1 year ago
    Fuck Rape Gurney Joe!
  • cowboyneok · 1 year ago
    Nothing injuriates me more than to enter a waiting room and find all the televisions tuned to FOX NEWS. Of course, the waiting areas who do this always have some pecuniary interest in keeping Republicans in charge. For instance, I went to a cable communications waiting area yesterday, and they had FOX NEWS on almost every television for the public. I attempt to change the station to a more balanced cable network whenever I see FOX NEWS on any television.
  • Õ¿Õ · 1 year ago
    What I intuit is that wherever there are people, there will always be at least one authritinairian who must control what people watch. So that person secretly turns it onto FOX to tell them how to think like they do. And the rest of the normal people are like, who cares.
  • Õ¿Õ · 1 year ago
    It's really insidious but effective and they know it with low information voters. It's totally not my scene to be flicking the channel back and forth with them, just like having to respond endlessly back and forth with a troll. It's just so fucking stupid how they force us to do that. It's also made me extremely leary of pretty much anyone out there. They're very close to burning people on the stake as witches with that mentality of ignorant control.
  • Õ¿Õ · 1 year ago
    It's like The Enlightenment never happened with this very determined minority.
  • MAJMark · 1 year ago
    Number one rated cable news network in the nation is why most every where you go you find it on.
    Most American can't stomach the likes of MSNBC or CNN, it's to far left for most mainstream Americans.
    "I attempt to change the station to a more balanced cable network...”
    And couldn't find one, right? :)
  • cowboyneok · 1 year ago
    talk to the hand.

    FOX News fair and balanced with THREE CONSERVATIVES per ONE Democratic "Strategist" to discuss each and every issue.
  • MAJMark · 1 year ago
    So you think they have just one? You're not paying attention then.
  • Badass4Peace · 1 year ago
    Remember back during the Mark Foley crime/scandal/coverup when there was a moment on Fox when in "covering" that story the graphic at the bottom of the screen said, "Mark Foley D-Fl" An honest mistake, uh huh, sure.
  • MikeinSanJo · 1 year ago
    When the bush admin got busted for playing those campaign commercials that looked like news reports there was a bit of a commotion. Why can't we require Fox News to declare the fact that they are not an actual news network? Maybe we could require that they have a crawl across the bottom of their screen every 15 minutes that says this is merely an opinion/entertainment channel and should not be confused with a real news network.

    All their performers should introduce themselves as "Hi! I'm Brit Hume/Bill O'Reilly/ E.D. Hill/Geraldo Rivera. I'm not a journalist but I play one on TV..."
  • NapalmGod · 1 year ago
    Fox News doesn't do news. They do a "Newstainment Product", whereby they take news stories and spice them up to be more controversial and add their own spin on things.

    You can't have journalists presenting news and commentary at the same time, that's not giving news, that's "Newstainment".
  • benb · 1 year ago
    "A spokeswoman for Fox News called the policy a “predictable stunt and a moot point”"

    Yeow! Doesn't that sound like the White House.
  • KansasModerate · 1 year ago
    I agree that Fox News is anything but fair and balanced, especially during prime time. And the network deserves strong criticism for giving that empty suit pit bill Sean Hannity an hour every Sunday night to trash Democrats.

    But be fair, Joe. MSNBC, and to a lesser degree NBC itself, are liberal and fail to provide fair and balanced coverage of the news. They are a left wing mirror of Fox's right wing bias.

    BTW, I will give Fox News some credit for having more liberals come on the air and comment on issues being discussed than its competitors bring on conservatives to comment.
  • Topher · 1 year ago
    Just to clarify, "news" cannot be "fair and balanced." News is reporting facts. There is no "other side" when MSNBC or NBC is presenting facts. If NBC reports that the sky is blue, they have no obligation to be "fair and balanced" and cover those who think the sky is green. MSNBC does also have opinion shows, but they are clearly labeled accordingly, and they are not moderated by "reporters" buy by personalities.

    Has anyone seen the documentary "OutFoxed"? If not, you should look into it. An oldie but still (unfortunately) relavent. http://www.outfoxed.org/
  • mirth · 1 year ago
    Topher, excellent comment. You make the most important points of all.
  • Topher · 1 year ago
    Thank you, mirth. Much appreciated.
  • jr · 1 year ago
    penguin gait Roger Ailes love his neo Pravda outfit
  • DavidinChelseaMA · 1 year ago
    www.newshounds.us has the great motto: "We watch Fox so you don't have to."

    They certainly provide a wonderful service for people who want to keep their sanity but still want to know what the enemy is up to.