Fox News Channel: Thugs posing as journalists
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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!
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Hey Will, after this, can we expect abook deflating the mythical status of the Kennedy's?— Ramon- Comment removed.
- 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.— shoeshineboy
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- "Thugs posing as journalists" Are we talking about Will?— doorspj24
- "Thugs posing as journalists" Are we talking about Will?— doorspj24
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.— jmc- 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.— E Plebnista
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- hey hack ... stop ripping of miller's sign-off— Mojo Thunder
- 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.— thelastRepublicaninPhilly
- 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.— PhilaRocks
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