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!
Come on now, we all know that a great majority of newspapers are left leaning, and you can just taste the liberal flavor of all those NYT articles. Last time I checked, in very general terms, roughly half of those who vote in the general election vote Democrat, while the other half votes Republican. But it sure seems like the media is way skewed towards the liberal side of things.— TheRock2020
Comment removed.- Will's just miffed because FNC doesn't follow the mainstream media policy of liberal bias. As such, FNC must now be attacked and discredited at all costs so that the non-liberal voice will be silenced. So much for free speech in the cradle of liberty.— chadsexington
- About time Fox was called to account.— phillyphilly10
- From the comments here it looks like the conservative name-callers can't take it when the shoe's on the other foot.— phillyphilly10
- Why are you wasting time on this stuff when I am sure there are some updates on "Bonnie & Clyde" you can be giving us right now! C'mon.. get back to the hard nosed journalism you are known for!— daddyimscared
- Must have been a slow news day....the media is now making itself the story.— msmame
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- Why is everyone jumping into this argument? It really, really has nothing to do with actual news but rather media types fighting for ratings. Maybe if we let them keep at it, they'll destroy each other and then we can get some new, unbiased reporting of actual news (not dressed up crap these two sides seem to think will win them ratings). Remember people, this entire dust up is about MONEY - advertising money, specifically - for both sides and none for any of you.— msmame
- How come this "journalist" doesnt mention the obvious bias of MSNBC and Keith Olbermann's vicious personal attacks against anyone who disagrees with him? Oh, thats right. He's a left wing parrot. I wonder if him and Dick Polman are going to wear a skirt and get a pair of pom poms the next time Barry comes to town.— beeron
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- You might want to question the source, considering the New York Times record of just making things up over the past few years!— lakebill
- Finally, signs of a BACKBONE! Kudos to Philly.com for posting this story! And for those that repeat the Limbaugh claim of MSM left-wing bias, take note: FOX NEWS IS THE MOST WATCHED MSM OUTLET IN THE COUNTRY! The news is now phony, right-wing, bully-tactics and pure lies fed by the Bush administration. You are now officially under mind control, my friends ...— makrom
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- Will Bunch - welcome to the real world of politics, the press, and their corporate masters! American IDOL is for politicians and the press too.— Peter of Manassas
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