Left Wing Journalists Want Govt. to Shut Down Fox News

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Their logo has GOT to be the most hypocritical I've ever seen. Every single thing Newsbusters writes reflects bias. Any outfit that stupid will never generate anything from me except a deep belly laugh.
 
Of course the left "hates free Speech" unless it AGREES with their ideology.

Look how many years they have been attacking Rush, now it's Beck, Palin, etc etc.

But this Jurnolist that is getting ready to hit is going to show the American people ONCE and for all what has been going. I hope they wake up.
Why do you say things like "Lame Stream Media" and "Enemies of the People" when you talk about things other than Fox News and the conservative radio talkers? Then, you say: "Of course the left "hates free Speech" unless it AGREES with their ideology."


This is what's called hypocrisy. Psychologists call it 'projecting'.

what difference does it make what I call them.
and why are you sooooo hung up on what I have to say. do you have anything else to add on what the THREAD IS ABOUT. sheesh

And if you want to only sing to your own choir, then get the fuck off USMB and find a forum where you'll be worshipped for your clever contributions.
 
The very existence of Fox News, meanwhile, sends Journolisters into paroxysms of rage. When Howell Raines charged that the network had a conservative bias, the members of Journolist discussed whether the federal government should shut the channel down.

“I am genuinely scared” of Fox, wrote Guardian columnist Daniel Davies, because it “shows you that a genuinely shameless and unethical media organisation *cannot* be controlled by any form of peer pressure or self-regulation, and nor can it be successfully cold-shouldered or ostracised. In order to have even a semblance of control, you need a tough legal framework.” Davies, a Brit, frequently argued the United States needed stricter libel laws.

“I agree,” said Michael Scherer of Time Magazine. Roger “Ailes understands that his job is to build a tribal identity, not a news organization. You can’t hurt Fox by saying it gets it wrong, if Ailes just uses the criticism to deepen the tribal identity.”

Jonathan Zasloff, a law professor at UCLA, suggested that the federal government simply yank Fox off the air. “Do you really want the political parties/white house picking which media operations are news operations and which are a less respectable hybrid of news and political advocacy?”

But Zasloff stuck to his position. “I think that they are doing that anyway; they leak to whom they want to for political purposes,” he wrote. “If this means that some White House reporters don’t get a press pass for the press secretary’s daily briefing and that this means that they actually have to, you know, do some reporting and analysis instead of repeating press releases, then I’ll take that risk.”

Read more: Liberal journalists suggest government shut down Fox News | The Daily Caller - Breaking News, Opinion, Research, and Entertainment

Supporters of free speech? Hardly.

This whole 'story' is nothing but paranoid rumor. It's about a debate. You've heard of debate? Free speech?
 
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Goldcatt - I believe that is the second time you insinuated that I was some kind of super secret paid political operative blogging for the Republicans. I'm very flattered.

Chanel...you're not "super secret" by any means.

:lol:
 
Fox isn't a news channel. It is hard to say what it is as every story has some obvious slant. This would be fine if it was only Beck or some so called opinion commentator, but the entire station is one large bias machine. Often if something important in the nation is occurring live, I turn to fox to see their presentation. Oddly they are often doing some BS story.

I turned on Fox this morning precisely to see how the "friends" were handling the Sherrod video once it was discovered that it had been intentionally cropped. Incredibly, there was fatass Dick Morris discussing LIBERAL BIAS IN THE NEWS. I realize that Fox is unabashedly Unfair and UNbalanced, but I mean do those people even HAVE brains? The top story du jour is about manufactured RIGHT-WING BIAS, and this idiot chooses today to accuse liberals of it.
 
Nobody's going to shut Fox News down. The public will wake up to all their lies on our own. Fox will go down due to their own actions.
 
Fox isn't a news channel. It is hard to say what it is as every story has some obvious slant. This would be fine if it was only Beck or some so called opinion commentator, but the entire station is one large bias machine. Often if something important in the nation is occurring live, I turn to fox to see their presentation. Oddly they are often doing some BS story.

It would be interesting if libel charges were brought more often, but they have corporate backing and moola as they worship at that church, so it is hard not to waste time even trying. The old days of honor and integrity in news and other journalist work is long gone. The Iraq invasion proved that too well as even today many believe Saddam was involved in 911.


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"Despite the spin by the mainstream media that this was a war the White House instigated, the facts show that Fox has consistently viewed itself as the voice of the opposition to the current administration. Back in March, Fox News Vice-President of Programming Bill Shine described his network as “the voice of opposition [to Obama] on some issues.” Conspiracy-theorist Glenn Beck, who called the president “a racist,” claims Fox News President Roger Ailes wooed him over to the conservative network from CNN headline News in part by stressing the network’s opposition to Obama, saying, “I see this as the Alamo.” "

Is Fox News a legitimate news organization? Media Monitor

LOL.
proof right there, the left HATES for us to have FREEDOM OF SPEECH. and if they could shut IT down, they would in a HEARTBEAT.

I don't want Fox shut down, but I want them to stop lying.
 
Fox isn't a news channel. It is hard to say what it is as every story has some obvious slant. This would be fine if it was only Beck or some so called opinion commentator, but the entire station is one large bias machine. Often if something important in the nation is occurring live, I turn to fox to see their presentation. Oddly they are often doing some BS story.

It would be interesting if libel charges were brought more often, but they have corporate backing and moola as they worship at that church, so it is hard not to waste time even trying. The old days of honor and integrity in news and other journalist work is long gone. The Iraq invasion proved that too well as even today many believe Saddam was involved in 911.


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"Despite the spin by the mainstream media that this was a war the White House instigated, the facts show that Fox has consistently viewed itself as the voice of the opposition to the current administration. Back in March, Fox News Vice-President of Programming Bill Shine described his network as “the voice of opposition [to Obama] on some issues.” Conspiracy-theorist Glenn Beck, who called the president “a racist,” claims Fox News President Roger Ailes wooed him over to the conservative network from CNN headline News in part by stressing the network’s opposition to Obama, saying, “I see this as the Alamo.” "

Is Fox News a legitimate news organization? Media Monitor

Now you know what it's like for us when we watch MSNBC, NBC, CBS, CNN, ABC or read the Washington Post, New York Times or the LA Times.

You have an 90,000 to 1 advantage in media bias. Complaining about it makes you a sore winner.

And just by the way, when you are watching the so-called "legitimate" news programs, do a little critical thinking. When they have 4 people on the segment and 3 of them basically agree with each other and one is a sacrificial "conservative" that's not fair, not balance and not journalism. And, every single one of the aforementioned "news" organizations does it. Every day and have for more than 25 years.

I watch CNN almost exclusively, and I see very little gang-ups on a sacrificial opposite. Even their panel discussions center around each one's personal opinion on the issue under discussion, which often varies from person to person. If, however, they are discussing something factual, why wouldn't they all agree?
 
I want them to keep doing what they're doing. Spreading rumors and editing tapes. May their lies be caught over and over until people wake up.
 
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Fox isn't a news channel. It is hard to say what it is as every story has some obvious slant. This would be fine if it was only Beck or some so called opinion commentator, but the entire station is one large bias machine. Often if something important in the nation is occurring live, I turn to fox to see their presentation. Oddly they are often doing some BS story.

It would be interesting if libel charges were brought more often, but they have corporate backing and moola as they worship at that church, so it is hard not to waste time even trying. The old days of honor and integrity in news and other journalist work is long gone. The Iraq invasion proved that too well as even today many believe Saddam was involved in 911.


Turn Off Fox - Get Fox News Turned Off Everywhere


"Despite the spin by the mainstream media that this was a war the White House instigated, the facts show that Fox has consistently viewed itself as the voice of the opposition to the current administration. Back in March, Fox News Vice-President of Programming Bill Shine described his network as “the voice of opposition [to Obama] on some issues.” Conspiracy-theorist Glenn Beck, who called the president “a racist,” claims Fox News President Roger Ailes wooed him over to the conservative network from CNN headline News in part by stressing the network’s opposition to Obama, saying, “I see this as the Alamo.” "

Is Fox News a legitimate news organization? Media Monitor

LOL.
proof right there, the left HATES for us to have FREEDOM OF SPEECH. and if they could shut IT down, they would in a HEARTBEAT.

I don't want Fox shut down, but I want them to stop lying.

LOL, it's seems it's only YOU lefties who "claim" they are lying.
Just look at their ratings, the number one news channel. so it seems more American people don't AGREE with your foolish accusations.
but nice try.
 
The left doesn't believe in free speech! I'm shocked!


Actually I'm not surprised, the left has always wanted to shut down conservative talk radio and now they're going after Fox News. You would think that with the sheer volume of conservative talk listeners and Fox viewers that mainstream news organizations would conclude that this country is and has always been center right and that they're leftist viewpoints only serve to alienate themselves from the masses. But for them to conclude that, it would take some amount of intelligence and that is obviously something the left lacks.
I think you're jumping to a conclusion that isn't really true. Just because you hear a lot of Conservative talk radio and watch the conservative Fox News, to conclude that this country is and has always been center right and that they're leftist viewpoints only serve to alienate themselves from the masses is a false paradigm.

There is a lot of pornography on the internet, therefore most internet users must be fans of pornography. See how that logic fails to reach the truth?

The proof of political allegiance is at the ballot box, not the Nielsen ratings.

You misunderstood my point. My point being is that an overwhelming part of the population either listens to conservative radio or watches FNC and that the leftwing media aka mainstream media obviously lacks the intelligence to tap into that viewing and/or listening audience. They would rather shut them down than to fairly report the news objectively. They place ideology above honesty. FTR I don't listen to talk radio nor do I watch FNC, with the exceptions of the clips I see on the WWW.

This country is right of center. A Gallup poll in 2009 confirms this with 40% of Americans interviewed describe their political views as conservative, 35% as moderate, and 21% as liberal.

Democrats Tell Progressives: America Is A Center-Right Nation | Firedoglake

For one thing, if you take FOX's audience and put it up against all the other TV news outlets combined, a helluva lot more people are watching some channel OTHER THAN Fox. Second, if Fox and the other right wing talkathons were indeed merely "center right" rather than "rabid right" I would have no problem with them at all.
 
LOL.
proof right there, the left HATES for us to have FREEDOM OF SPEECH. and if they could shut IT down, they would in a HEARTBEAT.

I don't want Fox shut down, but I want them to stop lying.

LOL, it's seems it's only YOU lefties who "claim" they are lying.
Just look at their ratings, the number one news channel. so it seems more American people don't AGREE with your foolish accusations.
but nice try.

The sheep look up to Fox. Why not? It's 'newsinfotainment'.
 
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You would think that the other cable news channels and the networks would be impressed with Fox's ratings that beat the pants off all the rest and sometimes beat all the others combined. Of the top rated news programs on television these days, Fox News has most of them. Maybe all now. I haven't looked in awhile.

And why is that?

Well Fox carries news the network news and their cable affiliates won't report until forced to by Fox if then.

Just as a sampling:

A health department official stating that Medicare, Medicaid, and the new healthcare reform bill will be used to redistribute wealth.

A State Dept official likening the Arizona immigration law to abuses of civil rights in China.

Van Jones, high level czar signing onto the conspiracy theory that 9/11 was an inside government job.

ACORN encouraging people to engage in illegal activity including prostitution and sex trade with minors.

The New Black Panthers urging people to kill crackers and their babies.

And most recently Shirley Sherrod discriminating against white people when carrying out her government function.

Why weren't these stories carried on the network news or their cable affiliates before Fox broke the story? They all certainly had the information at the same time Fox had it. But they spike the stores because each one had potential to embarrass the current administration and/or those who support it. Such stories are apparently taboo these days. Fox reports all the good stuff re the Obama administration that the network and their cable affiliates report but they also report the rest of it too.

So of course the radical leftists want to shut down Fox News and anybody else who is getting ALL the news out there. They would control the message if they could so you would hear only what they want you to hear. They would and did report anything embarrassing or uncomplimentary to the Bush administration. But not their guys. Nope they have to be sheltered and protected and anything bad has to be covered up immediately.

And that is the dismal state that journalism has achieved. It no longer is the Fourth Estate committed to the right of the people to know. It is mostly now a shill and P.R. tool of the current powerbase in government.

All except for Fox News.

And Fox will continue to beat the pants off the rest of them in ratings, because there are still Americans who aren't content to be brainwashed that everything is just wonderful and peachy and keen.
 
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I don't want Fox shut down, but I want them to stop lying.

LOL, it's seems it's only YOU lefties who "claim" they are lying.
Just look at their ratings, the number one news channel. so it seems more American people don't AGREE with your foolish accusations.
but nice try.

The sheep look up.

you would know all about that.
do liberals ever think on their own, or do they just continually follow the Piper off the cliff..:lol:
 
I think you're jumping to a conclusion that isn't really true. Just because you hear a lot of Conservative talk radio and watch the conservative Fox News, to conclude that this country is and has always been center right and that they're leftist viewpoints only serve to alienate themselves from the masses is a false paradigm.

There is a lot of pornography on the internet, therefore most internet users must be fans of pornography. See how that logic fails to reach the truth?

The proof of political allegiance is at the ballot box, not the Nielsen ratings.

You misunderstood my point. My point being is that an overwhelming part of the population either listens to conservative radio or watches FNC and that the leftwing media aka mainstream media obviously lacks the intelligence to tap into that viewing and/or listening audience. They would rather shut them down than to fairly report the news objectively. They place ideology above honesty. FTR I don't listen to talk radio nor do I watch FNC, with the exceptions of the clips I see on the WWW.

This country is right of center. A Gallup poll in 2009 confirms this with 40% of Americans interviewed describe their political views as conservative, 35% as moderate, and 21% as liberal.

Democrats Tell Progressives: America Is A Center-Right Nation | Firedoglake
Do you have numbers, or is this just your opinion? Overwhelming? Really?

I would listen to left wing opinions on the radio, if they were broadcast. I listen to the addict Limbaugh because the Public Radio station here broadcasts classical during the afternoon until 3:00 when PRI's The World comes on.

I find Limbaugh hilarious in his hypocrisy and idiocy. But, he's like driving past a car wreck looking for gore. Like sucking on a bad tooth or sniffing the milk carton even though the expiration date was a week ago.

Frankly, I don't think that much of the population listens to radio at all, except music while driving somewhere. So the RW radio stations are preaching to long distance truckers and stay-at-home redneck personalities.
 
LOL, I think she just called all the people who listen to talk radio, Rednecks.

how sweet.:lol:
 
LOL, it's seems it's only YOU lefties who "claim" they are lying.
Just look at their ratings, the number one news channel. so it seems more American people don't AGREE with your foolish accusations.
but nice try.

The sheep look up.

you would know all about that.
do liberals ever think on their own, or do they just continually follow the Piper off the cliff..:lol:

Yes. I think on my own. I don't watch TV news. Do you, or do you wait to find out what Glenn Beck wants you to think?
 
Same shit, different thread. One partisan hack blowhard giving his *cough HACK* unbiased opinion about cherry picked sound bites some other partisan hack blowhards may or may not have given as their opinions in a partisan hack blog and posted by a partisan hack mouth breather.

None of whom have any authority to do jack shit about their opinions...thankfully.

Don't shills ever get a day off?

But one person represents everyone! Don't you know?
 

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