Media

Mr. [Rupert] Murdoch has a talent for making money, and I understand that their programming is geared toward making money.

Jon Ponder | Jul. 20, 2010

Megyn Kelly
By now, if you’ve heard nothing else about the New Black Panthers Party voter-intimidation incident, you know that the folks at Fox News are positively in a snit that such a huge, huge scandal is being ignored by what Fox News star Sarah Palin calls the lamestream media.
http://www.pensitoreview.com/2010/07/20/why-is-media-ignoring-race-baiti...

Now it is official. You can say what you want about Fox News, but what the mainstream media and the liberal cable news outlets have done is not responsible journalism. There was a concerted effort to make sure that Barack Obama was sheltered from anything that would harm his chances of becoming the next President. In that way America was sold something they knew very little about. This is surely not fair and balanced. Tucker Carlson, who used to work for CNN and MSNBC and now works for Fox, brought the emails to light because they were listed on the left-leaning site JournoList. Ezra Klein, who created JournoList, has removed the emails. Are you trying to hide something Ezra? No problem we now know what was said.

The problem does not stop there because it is still happening. Recently, the Black Panther and DOJ dropping the charges was not covered by the mainstream media, The Acorn undercover video story was not covered, the story of Van Jones having to step down over his remarks in speeches was not covered by the mainstream media. all of these were not covered because they could be damaging to the President's image. Give me a break! News is just that, news, the good and the bad.

Bob Ellis of the right-leaning Dakota Voice said it best.

"Journalism has an extremely important function in any society. Journalism has the role and ability to bring information about the government “of the people, by the people and for the people” to those people so that they can make informed decisions about what policies and politicians to support.

Unfortunately, the dominant segment of journalism in our country (including ABC, CBS, NBC, PBS, NPR, CNN, MSNBC, the Washington Post, the New York Times, the LA Times, Associated Press, Newsweek, Time magazine and a host of smaller newspapers across the country) have abdicated their role of providing objective, balanced information coverage to the people, and have embraced an advocacy role to advance a liberal agenda.

This leaves American citizens in the lurch, having to go the extra mile to educate themselves and learn the truth, often having to sift through layer after layer of media-perpetuated propaganda."

This should not be allowed to continue.

Back off and look at the corruption on both sides, including Obama. The BS you see on Fox is designed to keep you stupid and divert you from the real problems. If you want to learn something watch Dylan Ratigan on MSNBC at 4 Monday - Friday. Please stop buying into the whole Republican Liberal Media myth. Much of the public believes a useful but unsupportable myth about the so-called liberal media.

http://makethemaccountable.com/myth/LiberalMedia.htm

http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=2447

I read, WSJ, NYT and Washington Post. I watch Fox, MSNBC and All the Sunday Shows and CBS. I compare, read, and I think FOX is the most slanted network on TV and Radio. In short I believe Fox is watched mostly by the uneducated, the bigoted the uninformed and those who do not want the facts to get in the way of what they believe.

For those of you that think Media Matters is a left wing propaganda Website, I would like someone to outline where they are not telling the truth.
A List Of Myths And Falsehoods About The Oil Spill, All Of Which Have Been Pushed By Fox News ... Boehlert: Will BP Be Fox News' Tipping Point? ... Right-Wing Media Defend BP Against "Shakedowns," "Show Trials," And Environmentalists Fox Hosts, Shows, And Outlets Led The Effort With At Least 38 Defenses Of BP. http://mediamatters.org/research/201006240025

I just saw on the national news that a couple of good ole boys have a great solution for getting the oil off the beach and the water. The put crushed dry ice on it and it freezes it in 90 seconds and then you can grab it easily and put in a trash can. They have plant that they say they can producre massive amounts of the stuff as soon as they get the not. They are meeting with BP today so maybe something there will happen soon. Anything that can be done should be.

They also say they are in contact with a company that has a similar product that get make the oil much easier to get out of the marsh lands. Their product isn't good for the marsh lands as it freezes the plants too.

I say let'em at it.

http://politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2010/jun/03/votevetsorg/v...

In recent years, at least twenty Fox News personalities have endorsed, raised money, or campaigned for Republican candidates or causes, or against Democratic candidates or causes, in more than 300 instances and in at least 49 states. Republican parties and officials have routinely touted these personalities' affiliations with Fox News to sell and promote their events.

http://mediamatters.org/research/201004210012

When you have to tell your viewers that you are "Fair and Balanced" or in the "No Spin Zone" you are probably not fair, not balanced and mostly spin. When your promo says "Fairness plus balance equals success" and you are a success, you have succeeded in creating and/or finding misinformed viewers.

FOX: The Most Biased Name in News
Fox News Channel's extraordinary right-wing tilt

http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=1067

As Media Matters President Eric Burns pointed out on MSNBC this week, "When you have a famed, well known Republican hitman -- Roger Ailes -- running a news network, this is what you're going to get."

http://mediamatters.org/columns/201004230046

Glenn Beck: the Televangelist Con Man Selling God's Plan for America
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/bob-cesca/glenn-beck-the-televangel_b_5464...