Fox News hosts admit going soft on Palin

[MomentsofSanity]

Is Arianna Huffington fair game, too? Just about everything she does or says is political?

In my opinion, absolutely. That and listening to her makes me want to punch a kitten in the face.

You say that like Fox ISN'T all over Huffington and HuffPo quite regularly.

 

[HomerJS]

Fox News soft on Palin? As common as...

 

[jman19]

Is Arianna Huffington fair game, too? Just about everything she does or says is political?

Yeah, why not?

 

[Pens1566]

Is Arianna Huffington fair game, too? Just about everything she does or says is political?

Of course she is. Then again, she doesn't go full on retard once or twice a week like Palin/Bachmann do.

 

[zinfamous]

Duh. First rule of professionalism is you don't talk bad about co-workers.

Palin is a political, public figure, who is due the same treatment as all other such figures.

but you're right--Foxnews has never made any pretentious of being an ethical, legitimate news organization, so this is not surprising.

 

[zinfamous]

True. Is Palin an offical candidate? If she does run will she quit FOX? Should she?

well, one would expect her to.

she has a lot of experience with that.

 

[zinfamous]

She is a private citizen. If she says things political then she is free game for comment. That criteria ought be applied to all....but just her, not her family.

:thumbsup: but she is also a public figure--not just a private citizen--attempting to exert influence and power. this is very important.


and yes, of course the same would apply to Huffington. why wouldn't it?

 

[zinfamous]

I'd plow her

I'd fill her so full of left wing justice that she'll vote for Nader in 2012.

:thumbsup:

 

[Linflas]

The thread title should be changed, the 2 individuals that made those comments are in fact political pundits, they appear on and host opinion shows. They are not news anchors on Fox or elsewhere.

Main Entry: news anchor
Part of Speech: n
Definition: a host of a regular news broadcast

 

[BladeVenom]

So that makes FOX more honest than the other networks. When the other networks admit to going easy on Obama then they may start gaining credibility.

 

[trenchfoot]

So that makes FOX more honest than the other networks. When the other networks admit to going easy on Obama then they may start gaining credibility.

So I'm gon'na assume you haven't been watching every one of the MSNBC talk show hosts slam Obama hard for going over to the repubs side on most all of what they wanted out of the debt ceiling deal?

 

[Aluvus]

That may have relevance or importance were she a candidate. But she's not, and I don't expect her to be either.

So, what we're left with is work colleagues not harshly criticizing each other in an effort to get along.

Hypothetically, if she were to run and they remained wary of honestly criticizing her as a candidate it demonstrates and inherent flaw in hiring former politico's who may run again.

Fern

To whatever extent she "is the story", she should be treated like anyone else. It is not relevant whether she is the story because of an announced run, because of a bizarre and embarrassing national bus tour, or because they are doing a retrospective on Miss Alaska pageants. It's a matter of journalistic integrity.

In practice the situation is very awkward for the "rank and file" employees who don't really want to be perceived as speaking ill of their own employer, however indirectly. So they censor themselves. This is all well and good for Ms. Palin (the only thing better would have been to have gotten a job at one of the news outlets that actually are substantially critical of her, like MSNBC), but not so good for the viewers.

For a very similar case, look at how Fox News shows have handled the (also News Corp-owned) News of the World phone-hacking scandal. They are at best walking on eggshells, and at worst, well, there's a clip of "Fox & Friends" where they actively attempt to make the whole thing seem like a non-story.

 

[DominionSeraph]

The thread title should be changed, the 2 individuals that made those comments are in fact political pundits, they appear on and host opinion shows. They are not news anchors on Fox or elsewhere.

Fox News is 90% conservative talk, 5% massively spun political news, and 5% "regular news." Opinion does anchor the network.

 

[Tom]

Not to defend Fox entirely, but Imus calls Palin an idiot all the time. And Alan Colmes works there as does Juan Williams.

And listening to a pundit like Hannity works both ways. It can just as easily reveal the flaws of their position as it can sway someone to their line of thinking.

 

[nyker96]

Palin is a political, public figure, who is due the same treatment as all other such figures.

but you're right--Foxnews has never made any pretentious of being an ethical, legitimate news organization, so this is not surprising.

well they certainly try very hard to be "fair & balanced" ;]

 

[Earthling01]

The thread title should be changed, the 2 individuals that made those comments are in fact political pundits, they appear on and host opinion shows. They are not news anchors on Fox or elsewhere.

^^Yeah this. The thread title is somewhat misleading. "Hosts" would have been a better word than "anchors".

 

[Linflas]

Fox News is 90% conservative talk, 5% massively spun political news, and 5% "regular news." Opinion does anchor the network.

🙄 The weekday schedule is straight new programming from 9AM until 5PM. 6AM to 9AM is the same type morning infotainment programming as found in the same time slots on the 3 major networks. 5PM to 6PM is an opinion oriented show which is where the 2 quotes in the misleading OP came from and is not presented as a hard news program. 6PM to 8PM is hard news programming. 8PM-11PM is opinion shows clearly presented as such.

 

[Jhhnn]

Ailes immunized Palin from his own organization when he put her on the payroll, quite intentionally. He also put her on a financial leash.

Anybody who can't figure that out doesn't have very many active little grey cells...

 

[nonlnear]

So true. But somehow, when the name Palin is invoked, it sort'a takes the luster off of the word "professionalism".😉

There are a lot of professionals for which I have the same amount of respect that I have for Palin. It's a very old profession...

 

[finglobes]

Fox News is lightweight. Dems only cry so much because they hinder the coup somewhat. Modern Dems are about as Stalinist as they come. Dems tried defaming tea parties as racists and it blew up in their faces since they got caught lying and some of most popular candidates are black. Now they are trying to make them terrorists - and this from people who protect Islamic terrorists. Dems are just tuning evil. Its like watching the Nazis defame the Jews and blame them for everything.


Tea Party 'Terrorists' and the Mainstream Media

http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2011/08/03/tea-party-terrorists-and-mainstream-media/

 

[Jhhnn]

Fox News is lightweight. Dems only cry so much because they hinder the coup somewhat. Modern Dems are about as Stalinist as they come. Dems tried defaming tea parties as racists and it blew up in their faces since they got caught lying and some of most popular candidates are black. Now they are trying to make them terrorists - and this from people who protect Islamic terrorists. Dems are just tuning evil. Its like watching the Nazis defame the Jews and blame them for everything.


Tea Party 'Terrorists' and the Mainstream Media

http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2011/08/03/tea-party-terrorists-and-mainstream-media/

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