teapartysamurai
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If you were in the presence of a man having a heart attack, how would you respond? As he clutched his chest in desperation and pain, would you call 911? Would you try to save him from dying? Of course you would.
But if that man was Rush Limbaugh, and you were Sarah Spitz, a producer for National Public Radio (update: Spitz was a producer for NPR affiliate KCRW for the show Left, Right & Center), that isnt what youd do at all.
In a post to the list-serv Journolist, an online meeting place for liberal journalists, Spitz wrote that she would Laugh loudly like a maniac and watch his eyes bug out as Limbaugh writhed in torment.
In boasting that she would gleefully watch a man die in front of her eyes, Spitz seemed to shock even herself. I never knew I had this much hate in me, she wrote. But he deserves it.
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.
And so a debate ensued. Times Scherer, who had seemed to express support for increased regulation of Fox, suddenly appeared to have qualms: 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?
A lot more here!
Read more: Liberal journalists suggest government shut down Fox News | The Daily Caller - Breaking News, Opinion, Research, and Entertainment
Wow! Liberal journalists are really telling us who they feer. All that liberal frothing can be boiled down to this. They can't control the news as long as their is an alternative that tells the truth!
They are FURIOUS that they can't lie, spike news, and smear with impunity. THEY HATE THAT!
This is funny stuff, and I love to read it. They are losing the public dialogue and their power, and they know it!