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Monday, July 7, 2008
Fox News Channel: Thugs posing as journalists

My policy on Fox News Channel has always been to defend their right to exist -- I think there's nothing inherently wrong with America having conservative or, um, liberal news outlets -- and to use my free speech to attack them when they get things wrong, which seems to be a lot. I had no idea until reading this NYT column by David Carr that they're also lowlife thugs who use an M.O. straight out of "the Sopranos":

Earlier this year, a colleague of mine said, he was writing a story about CNN’s gains in the ratings and was told on deadline by a Fox News public relations executive that if he persisted, “they” would go after him. Within a day, “they” did, smearing him around the blogs, he said. (I did not ask him for a comment because the information was of a private nature.)

Some of the avenues of attack are easier to anticipate than others. Right now, there are advance copies circulating of a reported memoir I wrote about my times as a drug addict and drunk. I’ve already been called a “crack addict” on Bill O’Reilly’s show, which at least has the virtue of being true, if a little vintage.

Read the whole thing -- there's other outrages -- and then spend the day talking between yourselves again.

It's an open thread. I'm off writing a book, and I...am...outtahere!

Posted by Will Bunch @ 8:11 AM  Permalink | 140 comments
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Posted by b.atkinson 08:31 AM, 07/07/2008
Hmmm, so what exactly is David Carr's role..."David Carr writes a column for the Monday Business section of the New York Times that focuses on media issues including print, digital, film, radio and television." So Carr's job is to critique (criticize?) the media. Very important stuff, for sure. So he attacks Fox and they have the audacity to aggressively defend themselves against this left wing twit. His response; whining like a schoolgirl and paranoia that everyone is out to get the heroic NY Times media critic. Of course, he has other fair-minded left wing comrades like bunch to feel sorry for him. Hopefully Uncle Rupert is taking names for when he buys the Titanic from Captain Tierney for 10 cents on the dollar. Just the latest nail in the left wing media coffin, and they still don't see it coming. Maybe Chris Satullo can add this outrage to his "Great Big I Hate America List."
Posted by Ramon 08:32 AM, 07/07/2008
Hey Will, after this, can we expect abook deflating the mythical status of the Kennedy's?
Posted by ET 08:41 AM, 07/07/2008
Yo Will! befor youz goes off and writes your book can youz tell me where I can gets a copy of that Soprano print? If theys have it in velvet so much the better. Of course I'll wrap it in plastic just like my mother done. If I don't hear from you shortly I'll send a couple of my boys over to say hello. Regards, Nicky Scarfo of the South Phila Scarfos
Posted by shoeshineboy 08:43 AM, 07/07/2008
flipped over to the FNC Morning show yesterday and saw former Channel29 bozo Clayton Morris sitting on the couch with his scowling look. Not much journalism from old Clayton there.
Posted by Xi Jah 08:48 AM, 07/07/2008
"Read the whole thing -- there's other outrages"...Speaking of outrages.
Posted by doorspj24 09:03 AM, 07/07/2008
"Thugs posing as journalists" Are we talking about Will?
Posted by doorspj24 09:03 AM, 07/07/2008
"Thugs posing as journalists" Are we talking about Will?
Posted by jmc 09:03 AM, 07/07/2008
This means nothing because it comes from the pages of the New York Times, who have been known to bully people around with their factually challenged stories such as the McCain affair with the lobbyist hit piece that came out earlier this year.
Posted by E Plebnista 09:16 AM, 07/07/2008
Thugs?, there you go again with your Sarah Bernhardt,drama queen , "we're the victims here", theatrics. As if you have'nt "gone after" those you politically disagree with, ad nauseam.
Posted by Gibba Mang 09:22 AM, 07/07/2008
Fox and news should never be in the same sentance. Fox provides entertainment, not news.
Posted by b.atkinson 09:32 AM, 07/07/2008
"'Thugs posing as journalists' Are we talking about Will?" Effete, elitist left wing hitman 'journalists' sipping chardonnay and eating brie never consider themselves 'thugs'.
Posted by Mojo Thunder 09:49 AM, 07/07/2008
hey hack ... stop ripping of miller's sign-off
Posted by thelastRepublicaninPhilly 10:12 AM, 07/07/2008
Funny how the we hate America and Republican news and media outlets focus on just FOX News. Isn't it? They want to preach free speech; but only when it agrees with them.
Posted by PhilaRocks 10:16 AM, 07/07/2008
So Will is angry about FNC, yet he has no problem with the NYT and its history of bias and fraud. If Will Bunch wants to see a thug posting as a journalist, perhaps he should look in his own mirror. From reading his writing, I have a strong feeling he does that a lot anyway.
Posted by shoeshineboy 10:24 AM, 07/07/2008
"Will reports, Will decides"
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