fox news cuts guest short

[Rudeboyelvis]

Originally Posted by Danzig

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/eric-b...b_2198149.html

Back in 2009 when the White House pushed back against Fox News and correctly suggested it's not a "legitimate" news organization, but was instead acting as an "arm of the Republican Party," the channel was vigorously defended by journalists who scolded the administration for daring to critique Fox News and its openly partisan operation:

* Obama's Dumb War With Fox News

* First They Came For Fox. Journalists Should Defend Cable Network Against White House

* In Defense of Fox News

Today, that defense has mostly melted away. In the wake of Fox's unvarnished Mitt Romney cheerleading and its mindless attacks on the president during the campaign, it is no longer controversial for journalists to state publicly that Fox News isn't an independent or serious news organization.

In fact, more journalists are making the clear connection between Fox and its obvious attempts to boost the GOP. (As well as noting its complete failure to actually help the party in 2012.)

What Ricks said on television Monday likely reflects what lots of journalists now concede to be the truth. Ricks just had the guts to say it on Fox News.

I could not agree more. It is all based on money, and Fox News caters to an affluent audience and blows away all the other news channels in terms of viewership. It translates into millions in advertising and they have no reason to change. MSNBC tries to counter, but it is laughable.

You will be told only what the corporations that own these channels want you to hear.

Case in point - Amber Lyons, a journalist for CNN at the time, was covering the atrocities in Bahrain during the Arab Spring. They were killing not only the protesters, but the doctors and EMT's that were treating anyone involved with the protest.

Did the world hear any of this? Nope. Why? Bahrain pays the parent corporation of CNN to keep this out of the world view.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pNBWLSNDFN0


Anyone who actually watches any of these "news" channels for actual unslanted, unbiased journalism is one brick short of a load.


So when someone with a chip on their shoulders gets muzzled, it really should be no surprise.

Too bad for them they couldn't do the same to Karl Rove on election night.

[Danzig]

yep, the press just isn't what it once was. fox is guilty of extreme bias, and very selective reporting. but i think the others are as well, because someone controls the purse strings. of course, it has been that way for some time. hell, each party 'back in the day' had it's own newspaper (andy jackson tangled with his party paper and the editor). then there was jefferson hiring a guy to write negative stories about alexander hamilton...but i digress.

some fox fans tout them as having so much more viewership. well, yeah. it's a matter of mathematics. the moderate to liberals have a wider selection of channels to choose from. the right-wingers all go to fox, because that's the only game in town for that point of view.

saw my parents at thanksgiving. my dad mentioned something he heard on rush. ugh. i don't know how anyone can listen to him.