{"id":16756,"date":"2014-06-16T16:14:08","date_gmt":"2014-06-16T23:14:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=16756"},"modified":"2014-06-16T18:38:24","modified_gmt":"2014-06-17T01:38:24","slug":"banned-in-fresno-veterans-demand-fox-news-be-turned-off-fox-news-whines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=16756","title":{"rendered":"Banned In Fresno: Veterans Demand Fox News Be Turned Off – Fox News Whines"},"content":{"rendered":"

A local TV station in Fresno, California did a rather trivial story about a waiting room at a Veterans Administration pharmacy. The story concerned an allegation that Fox News had been banned from the televisions at the facility. So the reporter sent one of his veteran buddies into the pharmacy to pretend to want to view Fox News. Whereupon they discovered that the channel was not accessible.<\/p>\n

That set off a flurry of outrage over at the Fox News mothership. They aired panicky segments on this massive censorship plot on multiple programs, including America’s News Headquarters, The O’Reilly Factor, and Fox & Friends. In each case they characterized the situation as a blatant attempt to silence Fox News due to their reporting on the scandalous backlogs and corrupt management at some V.A. hospitals. The only thing wrong with these reports was – well – everything.<\/p>\n

\"Fox<\/p>\n

First of all, there was no attempt to censor Fox News. A spokesperson for the facility made it clear<\/a> that that the channel was removed because of patient concerns. At least some of the patients explicitly objected to Fox News and the resultant controversy created an uncomfortable environment.<\/p>\n

“It was just a misunderstanding. We’ve had a lot of veterans with diverse personalities. A lot of veterans complaining about one news station or the other, so the intent was really to be fair and equitable and take all stations off. […] We’ve had several incidents of veterans actually arguing, fighting over the different news stations. Some wanted to watch news, some did not. Others wanted to watch specific stations.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

In addition, while Fox News did air reports on the V.A. scandal, so did every other news network. Fox had no more coverage of the affair than their cable news peers. Although they certainly had more spittle-inflected animosity directed at President Obama than some of the others. However, It was CNN that originally broke the story, so if there was an intent to censor the source of bad news about their operations, the pharmacy would more likely have banned CNN. Here is how Politico reported<\/a> the evolution of the story:<\/p>\n

“The slow-burn story at the Phoenix VA went from a largely ignored congressional hearing and a local news report before it landed on CNN and then exploded in the national media and seized the White House.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Particularly disturbing was the framing of this phony whining about censorship by the Fox & Friends crew, where co-host Brian Kilmeade packaged the segment as “Abandoned Brothers.”<\/em> They actually employed language generally reserved for prisoners of war or fallen soldiers on the battlefield to describe people waiting to get their prescriptions filled in a downtown Fresno drug store who weren’t able to watch a gaggle of Fox News blondes in short skirts mutilate journalism.<\/p>\n

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It’s pretty nauseating that Fox regards not being able to watch their network for a few minutes as comparable to being abandoned in wartime. Especially so soon after their repulsive coverage of Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl, whom they defamed as a deserter, a traitor, and a jihadist, before any hearing or even getting his version of events.<\/p>\n

Some Fox commentators literally advocated for Bergdahl to be abandoned<\/a> to his Taliban captors. So Fox hardly has the moral authority to use rhetoric about “abandoned brothers”<\/em> in their programming. But you can always expect them to make themselves a part of every story with an emphasis on how victimized they are by the rest of the media. That’s the sort of behavior generally exhibited by crybabies who can’t accept not getting their way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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