{"id":2799,"date":"2010-09-26T12:08:03","date_gmt":"2010-09-26T19:08:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=2799"},"modified":"2010-09-26T12:08:03","modified_gmt":"2010-09-26T19:08:03","slug":"fox-nation-the-week-the-democrat-media-industrial-complex-died","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=2799","title":{"rendered":"Fox Nation: The Week The Democrat Media Industrial Complex Died"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/Caps\/foxnation-dem-media.jpg\"\/><\/center><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<p>Classy as always, Fox Nation has posted a headline graphic of an ass with its head up its ass (and, no, it isn&#8217;t Bill O&#8217;Reilly, which would have made more sense). Remember, this is the online face of Fox News, an enterprise that wants to be viewed as a legitimate purveyor of journalism. I guess that this is the visualization of what journalism means to Fox News.<\/p>\n<p>The accompanying text reads: <strong>The Week The Democrat Media Industrial Complex Died.<\/strong> OK then, that settles it. Since this is the week it died it is safe to assume that there will be no more assertions of Democratic control of the media; no more accusations of the press being dominated by liberals; no more whining about bias against conservatives. All of that died this week, so SHUT UP!<\/p>\n<p>Of course, the illusion of the liberal media has always been a false claim by conservatives who can&#8217;t take honest criticism. The notion that a few multinational media corporations, run by billionaires, whose self-interests are squarely aligned with the right, are somehow advancing liberal ideas could only be believed by a mental patient with a fresh lobotomy.<\/p>\n<p>The article that the Fox Nationalists linked to from their juvenile image was posted on a site (jedeckart.com) named for a character in the movie Red Dawn, a favorite of rightist revolutionaries and Tea Baggers everywhere. Eckart was a militia-style dissident fighting a guerrilla war against Russian invaders. It is a mythology that appeals to right-wingers who pine for a new civil war.<\/p>\n<p>The content of the article is just a short list of cliche conservative complaints. Only one even relates to the media. Obviously the Fox Nationalists just wanted to exploit the link for its headline which they must have found amusing.<\/p>\n<p>Now that the fictional Democrat Media Industrial Complex has been declared dead, let&#8217;s get to work on the real Corporate\/Media Complex that is perverting our press. Let&#8217;s break up the Big Media conglomerates that monopolize the industry. And let&#8217;s reveal the distortions and dishonesty of propagandists like Rupert Murdoch, Phillip Anschutz, and the Koch brothers. Addressing these real problems with a media that seeks to further its own power and profits will do far more to move us forward than the childish posturing we see on Fox Nation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Classy as always, Fox Nation has posted a headline graphic of an ass with its head up its ass (and, no, it isn&#8217;t Bill O&#8217;Reilly, which would have made more sense). Remember, this is the online face of Fox News, an enterprise that wants to be viewed as a legitimate purveyor of journalism. 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Lucky for them their\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Economy&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Economy","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?cat=219"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":8014,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=8014","url_meta":{"origin":2799,"position":3},"title":"Fox News Banishes Their Own Polls From Fox Nation","author":"Mark NC","date":"9\/13\/2012","format":false,"excerpt":"There is a conspicuous trend developing at Fox News that indicates the depth of their desperation in light of the momentum President Obama is enjoying coming out of the party conventions. They are so afraid of an Obama victory in November that they are burying their own polls when the\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Election&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Election","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?cat=152"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":6420,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=6420","url_meta":{"origin":2799,"position":4},"title":"Fox Nation Stirs Up White House Press Breifing Controversy Over Loony Lester Kinsolving","author":"Mark NC","date":"2\/15\/2012","format":false,"excerpt":"It must be a slow day over Fox Nation. Ordinarily the Fox Nationalists are up in arms about some new socialist plot by the President or a conspiracy by George Soros to fund the Muppets' latest effort to indoctrinate children into gay marriages. But today they have had to resort\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;General&quot;","block_context":{"text":"General","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?cat=1"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":8309,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=8309","url_meta":{"origin":2799,"position":5},"title":"Vile Fox News Audience Wishes That Senate Leader Had Died In Car Accident","author":"Mark NC","date":"10\/26\/2012","format":false,"excerpt":"Sick, disgusting, lowlife, right-wing scum. That's the only fitting description for the miscreants who congregate on the Fox News community web site, Fox Nation. As I have previously documented, these hostile heathens have a bloodlust for their political adversaries that is perverted and antithetical to free democracies. 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