Almost overnight, Cliven Bundy became a hero of the anti-government right wing after his armed standoff
against the Bureau of Land Management, to which he owes over $1 million
in grazing fees. Fox News’ Sean Hannity has lavished praise on the
Nevada rancher, who has also elicited support from several Tea Party
lawmakers.
Unfortunately for conservative politicians trying to elevate him as a
patriot battling government overreach, Bundy is using his new national
platform to argue that black people were better off as slaves.
Read on....
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Showing posts with label Fox News. Show all posts
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12 Unbelievably Awful Things Fox News Did This Year
2012
was a dismal year for Fox News. The PR arm of the GOP failed to fulfill
its prime directive: advancing the interests of Mitt Romney and the
Republican Party. It spent much of the year constructing an alternative
reality that left millions of its flock in shock when President Obama
won an overwhelming reelection. It refused to accept the facts on the
ground and denigrated polls (even its own) when the results conflicted
with the fictional narrative it was peddling. And perhaps most painful
of all, Fox surrendered its ratings lead to MSNBC.
Two-thirds of its primetime lineup (Hannity and Van Susteren) dropped
to second place behind the competition on MSNBC (Maddow and O’Donnell).
However, Fox’s travails did not occur for lack of effort. It was clearly
operating at the top of its capacity to distort and deceive. In the
process it unleashed some of the most feverishly biased reporting, even
for Fox News. What follows are a few of the worst departures from
ethical journalism by Fox in the last year.
1) Romancing Petraeus: Fox News CEO Roger Ailes tries to recruit for the GOP.
The Washington Post’s
Bob Woodward revealed that Fox News CEO Roger Ailes had dispatched a
Fox News defense analyst, to Kabul, Afghanistan to recruit Gen. David
Petraeus as a GOP candidate for president. The notion of a news network
soliciting candidates for political office is a perversion of the role
journalists play in society. In response, Ailes claimed that it was “a
joke” and that he “thought the Republican [primary] field needed to be
shaken up.” Where Ailes got the idea that it was his right and/or duty
to shake up the GOP primaries is unexplained. News people are supposed
to report the news, not make it. Woodward’s story affirms that Fox News
is a rogue operation. Its intrusion into the political process debases
journalism by breaching all standards of ethical conduct. And it debases
democracy as well by exploiting its power and wealth to manipulate
political outcomes.
Beyond Fox News: The GOP is realizing it needs to talk to the rest of the media too
Interesting piece in Buzzfeed
about the Republicans starting to wake up to the fact that they need to
start appearing on other news outlets – real news outlets – than just
Fox News.
The thing is, going before real journalists can be hazardous to your health. Not often. But it’s certainly more risky than having Hannity brown-nose you for ten minutes.
The argument some conservatives are giving is that they’re only preaching to the choir when they go on Fox. Yes, but.
It’s a complicated question as to when its useful to go on a show that might as you tough questions. For the left, there really isn’t an alternative kind of show. Only lately MSNBC has been trying to fill Fox’s shoes – and MSNBC does it with fewer lies and less party loyalty. But before then it was either go on CNN and the other networks, and face tough questions, or go on Fox and be treated like a subhuman.
Read on....
The thing is, going before real journalists can be hazardous to your health. Not often. But it’s certainly more risky than having Hannity brown-nose you for ten minutes.
The argument some conservatives are giving is that they’re only preaching to the choir when they go on Fox. Yes, but.
It’s a complicated question as to when its useful to go on a show that might as you tough questions. For the left, there really isn’t an alternative kind of show. Only lately MSNBC has been trying to fill Fox’s shoes – and MSNBC does it with fewer lies and less party loyalty. But before then it was either go on CNN and the other networks, and face tough questions, or go on Fox and be treated like a subhuman.
Read on....
'Civil Rights' Group Patrolling Sanford Florida
That's That was the title at Fox 35 in Orlando. No joke. This is not a headline from The Onion. White supremacists are now just another group in Amerika, fighting for their civil rights.
The good folks at Fox might want to open a history book sometime and read up on the most infamous of these National Socialist groups.
Florida members of the Detroit-based National Socialist Movement tells FOX35 they are patrolling the streets of Sanford.
The white rights organization says several Sanford citizens have called on them fearing their safety.
The group's commander talked with FOX35 Saturday about their presence in the now racially divided Florida town where Trayvon Martin was shot and killed by George Zimmerman.
Fox News stinks. Tom
Fox News Downplays the Holocaust Museum Killing
You could almost see the moment yesterday afternoon when the Fox News team lost interest (or at least lost a lot of interest) in the breaking story about the shooting at the Holocaust Museum. That moment seemed to be when it was revealed that the alleged shooter, James von Brunn, was a white supremacist who, according to a CNN report last night, had strong ties to the Klu Klux Klan.
For some reason, Fox News suddenly pulled back its coverage of the shocking shooting that had political overtones. In fact, the story virtually disappeared during Fox News' primetime block.
Nothing to see here people, just keep moving along.
According to TVeyes.com, Fox News trails far behind its cable news rivals in mentioning "Holocaust" and/or "von Brunn" in the last 21 hours. In fact, Fox News anchors and reporters have used those phrases approximately 40 percent fewer times than their CNN counterparts, and 30 percent fewer than reporters and anchors at MSNBC.
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