Are news networks supposed to cover news??

[HomerJS]

A big news story occurred last week. Barack Obama became the first sitting American president to be awarded the Medal of Distinction, Israels highest honor. CNN and MSNBC covered the ceremony live (last Thursday 2:30 eastern). Not only conspicuous by their absence Fox News but check out the still pic during the ceremony.

While Israeli President Shimon Peres presented the award citing...

President Obama Israel's Presidential Medal of Distinction during a State Dinner Thursday, citing his support for Israel and his promotion of democratic values, human rights, and peace across the world.

Fox News ran a promo claiming Obama is strengthening Israel's enemies.

This story did not occur during their "opinion time" the excuse Fox pulls out to justify mis-representing real news. No wonder loyal Fox viewers are the most uninformed.

Like the former WWF maybe its time the Fox News channel be renamed to Fox Political Entertainment.

http://www.politico.com/politico44/...presidential-medal-of-distinction-159960.html
http://www.mediaite.com/tv/rachel-m...ing-president-obama-medal-ceremony-in-israel/

 

[monovillage]

That isn't news, it's propaganda. You don't even know the difference.

 

[waggy]

meh. yes fox is pro GOP but fuck MSNBC is the flip side of fox.

cnn, is pro obama but not as bad.

so in other words duhhhh.

 

[Matt1970]

You might have an arguement if you weren't using a a Rachel Maddow pic. Just a different side of the same coin.

 

[HomerJS]

That isn't news, it's propaganda. You don't even know the difference.

Israel wouldn't participate in propaganda they are our closest ally!

 

[nehalem256]

So is this like the time Obama won the Nobel Peace Prize?

 

[3chordcharlie]

So is this like the time Obama won the Nobel Peace Prize?

It sounds a lot the same, yeah.

 

[mistercrabby]

It sounds a lot the same, yeah.

the editors of each newsroom decides what is news. don't like it, don't buy their paper or watch their news.

yeah, so you mean the peace prize for not pulling out of Iraq or Afghanistan, or not closing Gitmo, etc, etc. don't get me started...

 

[Juror No. 8]

LOL @ both Israel and Obama being placed in the same sentence with democratic values, human rights, and peace.

Zionist Israel = Modern day Nazi Germany

Obama = Scumbag puppet president

 

[Oric]

Isn't MTV supposed to be a music channel ?

 

[Double Trouble]

So is this like the time Obama won the Nobel Peace Prize?

Yup.

 

[boomerang]

Clearly, we need to legislate what networks cover. It may be best to just make the media an arm of the government. We can have the Executive, Legislative, Judicial and Reportive branches. Think of the savings with just one news source being fed information from the other three branches.

Sends a tingle up my leg. How about you Homer?

 

[Farang]

Clearly, we need to legislate what networks cover. It may be best to just make the media an arm of the government. We can have the Executive, Legislative, Judicial and Reportive branches. Think of the savings with just one news source being fed information from the other three branches.

Sends a tingle up my leg. How about you Homer?

Not really sure how that is much worse than the corporate controlled media. At least with the government we are electing the people running it.

 

[mikeymikec]

Isn't MTV supposed to be a music channel ?

<shudder>

 

[pcgeek11]

He deserves the medal.... He paid for it... with our money.

 

[Incorruptible]

obama supported the MB who has vowed to destroy Israel.He gave morsi tanks and fighters jets. obama is not pro-Israel and he doesn't deserve any coverage for this. He is nothing but a pathetic excuse for a human being and a disgusting piece of shit

 

[PokerGuy]

A good example of some networks covering a fluff piece, while one network provides better analysis.

 

[Hayabusa Rider]

Not really sure how that is much worse than the corporate controlled media. At least with the government we are electing the people running it.

With the government we are installing one of the few choices they present to you.

State run media has worked occasionally but when things get tough they turn into propaganda machines. Corporate news isn't anything but a means to produce profit and so it's bad, but for different reasons. What's needed is something else. Perhaps a Bill Gates can set up a foundation run for the purpose of providing a better service.

 

[Hayabusa Rider]

Oh, I want my peace prize too. I've done at least as much as Obama at the time he was awarded. Getting elected isn't a real criteria for having not done anything of substance towards peace.

 

[Farang]

With the government we are installing one of the few choices they present to you.

State run media has worked occasionally but when things get tough they turn into propaganda machines. Corporate news isn't anything but a means to produce profit and so it's bad, but for different reasons. What's needed is something else. Perhaps a Bill Gates can set up a foundation run for the purpose of providing a better service.

I agree it seems like commercialization is a bigger issue than corporations laying a heavy hand on their media outlets.

A nonprofit would be great. Or a some kind of journalist-owned co-op that shares profits (a lot of them are freelancers anyway so this wouldn't be a new arrangement). I'm sure something like this already exists but if it were to exist on the level to compete with CNN, FOX, etc. that would be really valuable.

Then again commercialization has a purpose, that is to draw viewers. I mean we do have PBS which is somewhat independent but just doesn't get the same attention to corporate-owned media does.

 

[monovillage]

I agree it seems like commercialization is a bigger issue than corporations laying a heavy hand on their media outlets.

A nonprofit would be great. Or a some kind of journalist-owned co-op that shares profits (a lot of them are freelancers anyway so this wouldn't be a new arrangement). I'm sure something like this already exists but if it were to exist on the level to compete with CNN, FOX, etc. that would be really valuable.

Then again commercialization has a purpose, that is to draw viewers. I mean we do have PBS which is somewhat independent but just doesn't get the same attention to corporate-owned media does.

It was tried before in an "unofficial" way with JournoList" a liberal/progressive "club" that lied, skewed and denigrated conservatives until the little association was outed.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JournoList

Tucker Carlson, who edited several of Strong's articles about JournoList, wrote in a July 22 article: "Again and again, we discovered members of Journolist working to coordinate talking points on behalf of Democratic politicians, principally Barack Obama. That is not journalism, and those who engage in it are not journalists. They should stop pretending to be. The news organizations they work for should stop pretending, too. [...] I've been in journalism my entire adult life, and have often defended it against fellow conservatives who claim the news business is fundamentally corrupt. It's harder to make that defense now. It will be easier when honest (and, yes, liberal) journalists denounce what happened on Journolist as wrong".[21]

 

[Farang]

It was tried before in an "unofficial" way with JournoList" a liberal/progressive "club" that lied, skewed and denigrated conservatives until the little association was outed.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JournoList

I don't know you or your background.. but to cite Tucker Carlson as a steward of ethical journalism is a fucking joke. Without looking in to it further I can't discredit what he said there.

 

[monovillage]

I don't know you or your background.. but to cite Tucker Carlson as a steward of ethical journalism is a fucking joke. Without looking in to it further I can't discredit what he said there.

You could always read the link.

 

[CrackRabbit]

obama supported the MB who has vowed to destroy Israel.He gave morsi tanks and fighters jets. obama is not pro-Israel and he doesn't deserve any coverage for this. He is nothing but a pathetic excuse for a human being and a disgusting piece of shit

Pssst, your Islamophobia is showing.

 

[Fern]

I don't find it "big news".

IMO, covering a ceremony is not news, it is merely televising a ceremony. A simple statement of the fact that Obama got the award by an anchor is sufficient to qualify as reporting the news.

Fern