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February 11, 2009 05:02 AM UTC
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You act as if this dude is some influential player. This ain’t Jim Leher, its FOX.
Now that your head has exploded and nothing really happened you should return your terminal to Google and research the ‘fairness doctrine’.
I’d suggest your Spring ’09 project is to establish a peoples movement to stand up to that other myth … the evil Rush.
Not so much, Libertine! More like a propaganda reader.
You don’t find it the least bit embarrassing that this guy was caught reciting a GOP press release–right down to the typos?
Best case for the Fairness Doctrine (the uncontroversial law of the land from 1949 until Rush Limbaugh) I’ve seen in years.
That thin skinned bastard can’t hold his own as he parades across other news programs to gurgle his warped positions.
The difference here is this Scott guy doesn’t go out on mouthpiece missions.
Schultzie here, he rolls Chicago-style, he gets a seat front and center seat at the President’s PC as if it will morph him into a “real” policy reporter.
Fox is propaganda pure and simple. It doesn’t just lean. It isn’t just biased. It is a mouthpiece organization that bears no resemblance to a legitimate news network.
Murdoch himself has freely admitted that the purpose is to promote his conservative agenda. If he doesn’t pretend it’s a legitimate news network or that it even attempts to do objective journalism, I’ll take his word for it.
And my head isn’t exploding. The success of Dems in taking over the White House, congress, state legislatures and Governor’s mansions all speaks to Fox’s waning influence. As their demo ages, Fox is more bark than increasingly toothless bite.
APPEALS COURT REVERSES JURY IN AKRE V FOX TV CASE
Accepting a defense rejected by three other Florida state judges on at least six separate motions, a Florida appeals court has reversed the $425,000 jury verdict in favor of journalist Jane Akre who charged she was pressured by Fox Television management and lawyers to air what she knew and documented to be false information.
“In a six-page written decision released February 14, the court essentially ruled the journalist never stated a valid whistle- blower claim because, they ruled, it is technically not against any law, rule, or regulation to deliberately lie or distort the news on a television broadcast.
“In the lawsuit filed in 1998, Akre claimed she was wrongfully terminated for threatening to blow the whistle to the FCC. After a five-week trial that ended August 18, 2000, a six-person jury was unanimous in its conclusion that she was indeed fired for threatening report the station’s pressure to broadcast what jurors decided was “a false, distorted, or slanted” story about the widespread use of growth hormone in dairy cows.
“In overturning the jury on what amounts to a legal technicality, the court did not dispute the heart of Akre’s claim, that Fox pressured her to broadcast a false story to protect the broadcaster from having to defend the truth in court, as well as suffer the ire of irate advertisers.”
And again, if you believe that this is manufactured, here’s the actual court documents
http://www.2dca.org/opinion/February%2014,%202003/2D01-529.pdf
http://www.2dca.org/opinion/February%2025,%202004/2D01-529.pdf
that Fox News, a creature born of the right-wing myth of a prevalent liberal bias in the mainstream news media, counterbalances that alledged bias by engaging in sub-standard journalistic practices, once again proving that the American Right and Islamic Fundamentalists are twin children of different mothers.
when people — Democrat and Republican alike — cared about journalistic standards. Sadly, those days appear to be gone. That is the point of this post — calling a news anchor at Fox a “news reader” doesn’t get them off the hook. If Fox markets itself as a legitimate news organization — a “fair and balanced” one no less — then they should not be reading GOP press releases verbatim, period. Stop pretending like this is no big deal.
Times are tough over at News Corp.
Why bother with expensive journalists when your friends in DC will send you this stuff to read for FREE!
if the Falafel Guy will discuss his own sexual proclivities when he showcases Laura Bradford’s sex crimes bill on his show tonight. Or how Bradford expects to pay for her increased expenditures.
Oh, wait, Laura Bradford’s apt plot to abort state budget woes is…:release prisoners who have served their time. As Political Notebook reports:
Why did we not elect this genius earlier? How dare prisons not release criminals after they served their sentence. How many prisoners are kept in prison after serving their sentences and how much will it save the state if we release them, Ms. Bradford? Of course, if criminals are dumb enough not to know when their time is up, maybe they should stay put?
But creating programs costs money too.
Memo to Bradford: the state has no money for extras this year.