FoxNews.com’s home page is again displaying their unique world view as well as their journalistic bias. Take this example of their editorial treatment of Senator Larry Craig and political donor Norman Hsu. The story this screen grab plainly tells us, in both words and images, is that Fox considers revelations about a corrupt campaign contributer [...]
Monthly Archives: August 2007
Aug 30
Media Research Center’s Bogus Study On Morning News
Conservative Brent Bozell’s disinformation unit, the Media Research Center, has released a study that purports to show “How the ABC, CBS and NBC Morning Shows Are Promoting Democrats On the Road to the White House.” The report claims that the network’s morning show scheduling was weighted in favor of Democrats and that this disparity represented [...]
Aug 29
Networks Refuse To Air Liberal Ads, Too
John Hinderaker at the Power Line blog is expressing some selective outrage over the alleged refusal of MSNBC and CNBC to air ads by a pro-war shadow press office for the White House. Led by former Bush press secretary, Ari Fleischer, Freedom’s Watch is seeking to target congressional members who aren’t sufficiently hawkish by placing [...]
Aug 28
The Fox Frame: Hannity Vision
Sean Hannity conducted an interview with a Christian televangelist named Bill Keller. Keller has a reputation for engaging in hate speech against Muslims. Unfortunately, the picture over Hannity’s shoulder is that of Bill Keller, executive editor of the New York Times, whom I’m sure Hannity thinks is a purveyor of hate speech as well. But [...]
Aug 27
Alberto Gonzales Forgets Not To Resign
For immediate Release: Fox News, the most powerful name in lies, is preparing it’s most exciting roster of new programming ever. And kicking off the new season will be the premier of Alberto Gonzales’ unforgettable nightly expose into … um … wait, don’t tell me … it’s on the tip of my tongue … Oh, [...]
Aug 27
Michael Vick: Flavor Of The Week
I had no intention of weighing in on the Michael Vick dog fighting story, but some of what I’ve read around the InterTubes™ just begs for some enlightenment as to the media’s handling of this. Lawrence O’Donnell wrote an article at the Huffington Post that he ironically titled “What’s Wrong with Killing Dogs?” The point [...]
Aug 25
Ted Nugent: The Motor City Jackass
You would be hard pressed to find rightest diatribes more offensive than those from the likes of Michael Savage, Ann Coulter, or Glenn Beck, but I don’t think I’ve ever heard as revolting or violent a tantrum as this one by a machine gun brandishing Ted Nugent: Nugent: I was in Chicago last week I [...]
Aug 24
The New Pentagon Propaganda Pulpit
Associated Press via Huffington Post: Washington, August 24, 2007. “Shaping the Bush administration’s message on the Iraq war has taken on new fervor, just as anticipation is building for the September progress report from top military advisers.” With news from Iraq continuing to reflect deteriorating security and a crumbling government, the Pentagon is embarking on [...]
Aug 23
DeadLines
Bill O’Reilly’s Trespassing Producer A Hillsborough sheriff’s deputy issued trespass warnings to O’Reilly Factor producer Jesse Watters, and staff Brian Lyle and Colin Kelly, when they tried to ambush interview Circuit Judge Manuel Lopez. O’Reilly aired Watters harassing the judge but failed to broadcast any of the encounter with the sheriff. Non-Freedom of Information Act [...]
Aug 23
News Corpse Sells Out
Beginning today, News Corpse is a member of the Liberal Advertising BlogAd Network. The LBAN is a group of progressive blogs that have coalesced under this banner to support, through advertising, blogging and bloggers who promote “the national progressive zeitgeist”. For the New Media revolution to remain a viable challenger to the corporate-dominated Conventional Media, [...]
Aug 22
Tastes Almost Like Free Speech
Almost like the real thing. We live in a substitute society. Our consumer culture has produced numerous products that are only meant to emulate other products that, for one reason or another, we seek to avoid. There is mock meat and faux fur and sodas sweetened sans sugar. Now, courtesy of BushCo, we have fake [...]
Aug 22
Fox News Declares War On Iran
This piece from FoxAttacks really tells the story of what a corrupt tool for propaganda Fox is. It also should tell people that our battle lines do not end with Bush and other Republicans. Christiane Amanpour’s comment succinctly describes the real threat: “My station [CNN] was intimidated by the administration and the foot soldiers at [...]
Aug 21
Fox Buries Iraq War News
The Project for Excellence in Journalism just published the results of their study of news coverage for the second quarter of 2007. Continuing the trend from the first quarter, Fox News had far less coverage than its cable competitors. Proving that it simply doesn’t consider the war in Iraq a priority, Fox’s coverage trailed CNN [...]
Aug 21
Nuke Iraq And Make Bush President For Life
The wisest course would have been for President Bush to use his nuclear weapons to slaughter Iraqis until they complied with his demands, or until they were all dead. Believe it or not, this is exactly what Family Security Matters, a organization made up of prominent conservatives, is advocating, along with making Bush President For [...]
Aug 17
The Daily Show: Reporting From Iraq
The Daily Show is going to war. The show whose star, Jon Stewart, condescendingly refers to it as “fake news” is sending their very own correspondent on assignment to Iraq next week. Rob Riggle will anchor Operation Silent Thunder from, as the press release puts it, “actual Iraq, not greenscreen Iraq.” Two years I ago, [...]
Aug 17
Bill Moyers On Karl Rove
It is becoming predictably routine that every time Bill Moyers speaks he produces a classic oration of eloquence and reason. Tonights closing commentary on his PBS Journal is no exception: In this excerpt, Moyers applies his unique insight to fellow Texan, Karl Rove:
Aug 16
Fox Business News Hues: Rosy Futures
Neil Cavuto, the long-standing captain of the Fox Cheer Leading Squad for America’s corporatist economy, is charitably contributing to a detailed portrait of the quality of the financial news that the Fox Business Network will start broadcasting in October. And it IS a pretty picture. A picture filled with rainbows and bluebirds and silk PJs [...]
Aug 15
The Cost Of (Covering) The War
The war in Iraq has been disastrously expensive on so many levels. It distracted the nation, and the world, from the real terrorist threats still operating in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and elsewhere. It demolished the international sympathy, unity, and goodwill that existed post 9/11. It prompted a legislative assault on cherished civil liberties and domestic and [...]
