It is still their right to push their agenda, just as Alan Colmes (also on Fox) pushes his. I also read The Christian Science Monitor, CNN, and a few other international papers to get the bigger picture. Somewhere in the middle lies a truth if you can sort through the crap.
yes, other news organizations have Bias, but they usually confine this to editorials. They don't build it into their stories or information dissemination usually.
Since the bias of this organization happens to be 100% congruent with the interests of our government (until Jan 1) I believe this fits the role of "propaganda" quite well.
It is NOT proper for the vice president of ANY self proclaimed news operations to be pushing a one sided political agenda... unless he has the balls to stop calling it a news.
There's not even the scantest hint of journalistic integrity in that memo. THEY decide. Then, THEY report whatever fact or fiction they're going to spoon feed their brain dead viewers under the guise of news.
No it's like this, before the election someone asked Karl Rove about the R's lagging in the polls and he said something to the effect that well you have your math, I have THE math.
So basically the conservative movement in the country has mastered the art of placing doubt on any fact, no matter how concrete, in order to discredit it and replace it with their "facts".
If you watch Outfoxed they explain this pretty well, when they have a point or a fact that doesn't fit with their ideology they will start the discussion that, "Some may say" and offer their version, they never say who these 'Some' are, but most of the time it's from their producers or Roger Ailes, whoever sets the agenda for that day.
It's psychology plain and simple, even casting the slightest doubt about the validity of something, is enough to make some people believe it's false, regardless of the merits of their claim. That slightest bit of doubt then turns into a liberal media bias, or an activist judge, or communist scientists who want to destroy the economy and hate America.
Harvey,
I never said that it was proper to act that way. It's just that freedoms, guaranteed by the laws of the land gives them certain rights to do as they please. you don't have to listen if you don't like it. Ted Turner made very outrageous statements over the years, but that is his right. I don't like it any more than you do, but I just read other sites as well to find the truth. It's like parental advisories for music. Don't like it? listen to something else.
Imagine a world run by a state-run paper, and other points of views eliminated...Oh wait! That's China!
I never said that it was proper to act that way. It's just that freedoms, guaranteed by the laws of the land gives them certain rights to do as they please. you don't have to listen if you don't like it. Ted Turner made very outrageous statements over the years, but that is his right. I don't like it any more than you do, but I just read other sites as well to find the truth. It's like parental advisories for music. Don't like it? listen to something else.
Imagine a world run by a state-run paper, and other points of views eliminated...Oh wait! That's China!
KlokWyze
Diamond Member
Weren't there propagandists in Nazi Germany that were charged in found guilty of war crimes?
When the MSM can't even ask or answer simple questions about 9/11 or the IDF murdering people in public, yeah, I think we can use the word treason. While many journalists are comin out now, openly criticizing the neocons, where were they during/after 9/11? Where were they pre-Iraq? They were cheerleading. Classic example is Keith Olberman, that guy IS "faux". Any of you that can't understand or see this ****** are simply another mindless POS. I know C-Span is boring because it doesn't put explosions and murders for you to watch in 3 second clips, but that is some unbiased ****** right there.
When the MSM can't even ask or answer simple questions about 9/11 or the IDF murdering people in public, yeah, I think we can use the word treason. While many journalists are comin out now, openly criticizing the neocons, where were they during/after 9/11? Where were they pre-Iraq? They were cheerleading. Classic example is Keith Olberman, that guy IS "faux". Any of you that can't understand or see this ****** are simply another mindless POS. I know C-Span is boring because it doesn't put explosions and murders for you to watch in 3 second clips, but that is some unbiased ****** right there.
KlokWyze
Diamond Member
Originally posted by: Whoozyerdaddy
So why is everyone in such a tizzy that Fox might report on insurgent/taliban celebrations of a Dem win in the mid-terms? That would be news right? To ignore their response would be a passive bias wouldn't it?
The memo doesn't say to "go out and get the insurgents to feign elation" over the election. All it says to do is pay attention.
You'd be pretty naive to think that there aren't Taliban and Iraqi insurgents who were thrilled over the election results. They certainly weren't fans of the Republicans. They know that a large chunk of the Dem party wants an immediate pull out. Why wouldn't they be happy about that? Are the Dems embarrassed that the bad guys share the same goal of pulling the US out of Iraq as many of them do?
Oh wait... I remember... anything reported in the press that wrecks your rose colored view of how things should be is "biased". That and the Dems haven't had but a couple of days to enjoy that "New Congress" smell and to bring up things like this so early is just sour grapes.
Anyone who believes were are leaving Iraq because some "democrats" have the majority in the house and senate are..... lost. We haven't been building bases, securing oil fields and buildings THE WORLD'S LARGEST EMBASSY to just leave. LOL!
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