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Hey, Tom Brokaw is fine with Fox News (apparently anyway; he never criticizes it, saving his barbs for his own network instead) so you should be, too. After all, if news colossus Brokaw sees them as being on the up and up then they must be, right?
I call Rupert Murdoch's outfit News Corpse for what it has done to electronic journalism.
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Showing posts with label Fox News. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Fox News. Show all posts
Tuesday, October 7, 2008
Friday, September 26, 2008
The Whistleblower Who Tried to Prevent the Iraq War
Story is here.
And the U.S. MSM was AWOL while this was going on. Yet another in a Giza pyramid's worth of profiles in cowardice by NBC, FOX, CBS, ABC, et al.
And I said it in the run up to the war and I will repeat it again, NBC is that most infamous of conglomerations, the military industrial media complex.
GE boss Jack Welch should probably be put on trial for war crimes since it was his ultimate call what happened at NBC, which GE owns. During the occupation of Japan following WWII, Matsutaro Shoriki, the head of the Yomiuri Shimbun, was purged from being able to run his company for several years for his responsibility in helping to stoke war fever in Japan. So were many other Japanese media figures of the time.
At the very least, GE should be forced to sell NBC then for their war responsibility. Won't happen, of course, but morally, that should be the least they should suffer.
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And the U.S. MSM was AWOL while this was going on. Yet another in a Giza pyramid's worth of profiles in cowardice by NBC, FOX, CBS, ABC, et al.
And I said it in the run up to the war and I will repeat it again, NBC is that most infamous of conglomerations, the military industrial media complex.
GE boss Jack Welch should probably be put on trial for war crimes since it was his ultimate call what happened at NBC, which GE owns. During the occupation of Japan following WWII, Matsutaro Shoriki, the head of the Yomiuri Shimbun, was purged from being able to run his company for several years for his responsibility in helping to stoke war fever in Japan. So were many other Japanese media figures of the time.
At the very least, GE should be forced to sell NBC then for their war responsibility. Won't happen, of course, but morally, that should be the least they should suffer.
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Thursday, August 28, 2008
FOXNEWS RESPONSE TO OBAMA ACCEPTANCE SPEECH
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Fox is kind of the mother bird of reactionaries. FrankenHume, et al, chew over the day's Republican talking points and then pukes them into the gaping jaws of their dopey audience.
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Note: This must be one of the moderators who has it in for me. Fucking prick.
Fox is kind of the mother bird of reactionaries. FrankenHume, et al, chew over the day's Republican talking points and then pukes them into the gaping jaws of their dopey audience.
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Note: This must be one of the moderators who has it in for me. Fucking prick.
MSNBC Implosion
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I think this is hilarious. From a station that stopped just short of putting Ashley Banfield in a cheerleader uniform in the opening days of the Iraq War to now the rightwingers and leftwingers warring with each other on MSNBC as it makes a transition from a minor league echo chamber for the Bush line to one that is finally willing to tell the public the truth.
And asking MSNBC's management to openly declare its sympathies? That's also really funny since Faux Nooz won't do that itself in its role as a loudspeaker for corporate fascism and its enablers on the right.
And can anybody hear the name "Wolf Blitzer" and not start laughing? You half expect him to do his shows dressed up in a German Field Marshall's uniform. In fact, that will be my new nickname for Blitzer, Field Marshall Wolf.
But getting back to MSNBC, the parent company is run by Republicans. To see them now deeply conflicted over not just the dissension going on between intellectually dishonest "I have a hard on for Hillary," Chris Matthews, Buttfaced rightwing hack Joe Scarborough and and MSNBC savior Keith Olbermann is just too delicious for words. Matthews and Scarborough wants to draw Rachel Maddow into this maelstrom of mutual loathing, but she just isn't interested and I can't blame her..
At least MSNBC is no longer boring, which it was when it had hosts such as Chuck Grodin, Tucker Carlson and Phil Donahue.
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Note: Huh? Was it the Field Marshall Wolf line? Me calling Arianna icon Phil Donahue boring (which he was)? Or Arianna showbiz friend Chuck Grodin equally tedious? I'm totally at a loss here. Any suggestions?
I think this is hilarious. From a station that stopped just short of putting Ashley Banfield in a cheerleader uniform in the opening days of the Iraq War to now the rightwingers and leftwingers warring with each other on MSNBC as it makes a transition from a minor league echo chamber for the Bush line to one that is finally willing to tell the public the truth.
And asking MSNBC's management to openly declare its sympathies? That's also really funny since Faux Nooz won't do that itself in its role as a loudspeaker for corporate fascism and its enablers on the right.
And can anybody hear the name "Wolf Blitzer" and not start laughing? You half expect him to do his shows dressed up in a German Field Marshall's uniform. In fact, that will be my new nickname for Blitzer, Field Marshall Wolf.
But getting back to MSNBC, the parent company is run by Republicans. To see them now deeply conflicted over not just the dissension going on between intellectually dishonest "I have a hard on for Hillary," Chris Matthews, Buttfaced rightwing hack Joe Scarborough and and MSNBC savior Keith Olbermann is just too delicious for words. Matthews and Scarborough wants to draw Rachel Maddow into this maelstrom of mutual loathing, but she just isn't interested and I can't blame her..
At least MSNBC is no longer boring, which it was when it had hosts such as Chuck Grodin, Tucker Carlson and Phil Donahue.
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Note: Huh? Was it the Field Marshall Wolf line? Me calling Arianna icon Phil Donahue boring (which he was)? Or Arianna showbiz friend Chuck Grodin equally tedious? I'm totally at a loss here. Any suggestions?
Monday, August 25, 2008
Fox News Ad Ignites Chicago Cable War
Story is here.
Like Faux Nooz gives a tinker's cuss about Chicago, a Democrat stronghold.
And does any reasonable human being get upset about CNN not having a bureau dedicated to Chicago anyway? Especially when they can just rip and read news from there off the net anyway from one of the several newspapers there.
Really, what a yawn.
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Like Faux Nooz gives a tinker's cuss about Chicago, a Democrat stronghold.
And does any reasonable human being get upset about CNN not having a bureau dedicated to Chicago anyway? Especially when they can just rip and read news from there off the net anyway from one of the several newspapers there.
Really, what a yawn.
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Fox News Ad Targets CNN's Heavily Democratic Audience
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"Since Fox News introduction into the marketplace, all of the news organizations have become infotainers. Instead of just delivering the news,"
I would argue that process actually began with the introduction of the Eyewitness News concept in the early 1970's, was exacerbated by the success of Entertainment Tonight and then Fox just refined that with a right wing political sheen.
Anchors and reporters are no longer just that. Now they have to be song and dance men or comedians.
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"Since Fox News introduction into the marketplace, all of the news organizations have become infotainers. Instead of just delivering the news,"
I would argue that process actually began with the introduction of the Eyewitness News concept in the early 1970's, was exacerbated by the success of Entertainment Tonight and then Fox just refined that with a right wing political sheen.
Anchors and reporters are no longer just that. Now they have to be song and dance men or comedians.
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Fox News Ad Targets CNN's Heavily Democratic Audience
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"viewership does not have anything to do with the type of reporting happening"
Too true. Faux Nooz is still a neo-fascist operation no matter who watches it and CNN, with the exception of Jack Cafferty, has been trying to emulate it and has become Faux Nooz Lite.
It's hard for me to believe that any Democrat would watch the Murdoch GOP echo machine, but oh well. It could be that some people like watching train wrecks.
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"viewership does not have anything to do with the type of reporting happening"
Too true. Faux Nooz is still a neo-fascist operation no matter who watches it and CNN, with the exception of Jack Cafferty, has been trying to emulate it and has become Faux Nooz Lite.
It's hard for me to believe that any Democrat would watch the Murdoch GOP echo machine, but oh well. It could be that some people like watching train wrecks.
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