I'MMA LET YOU FINISH
Let the floodgates open!
Wow, I'm just 'shocked' that Fox News had managing editors encouraging bias against anyone who isn't a middle aged white man.
Just shocked.
Seriously, dave is right in that floodgates opening may have an impact on the minions who think Fox is actual news.
Has anyone else noticed the 'Yes' themes in the article titles going on lately? I can't be bothered to go back and read all the comments to see if you all have mentioned it.
If I'm the first that got it, can I win a prize?
Ok, fine. It was already discovered. And parodied.. and discussed ad naseum. I'll go back into my hole now.
Remember, folks: the left gets accused of "bias", the right implements bias as policy. The right is not merely hypocritical--they are hypocritical as part of a concious strategy of deception.
Try it on other things: sexual peccadillos, corruption, political correctness, catering to special interests, identity politics, class warfare, fiscal responsibility, treason, judicial activism... in all of these cases, they don't practice what they preach--they practice what they screech. They deliberately accuse others of what they are themselves doing. The rightists are nothing if not consistent.
Not to worry, Fresh. I thought I was imagining it when 'Gates of Delerium' appeared by itself.
Now, it's turned into a set list or something.
Might I suggest King Crimson titles next? '21st Century Schizoid Man' would fit so many people nowadays. However, the usefullnes of 'Larks' Tongues In Aspic' is debatable.
It hasn't been discussed nearly enough. Of course Faux is biased. That's obvious to anyone with half a brain. But the level of control the memor reveals -- and the fact that there's a memo at all -- is fascinating.
Once again,ladies and gentlemen, it's all about projection.
The ceaseless "Liberal Bias" balther is actually about a desire for Absolute Reactionary Control The memo shows how it works at its most absolute.
But Faux shouldn't be seen as merely the extreme end of all of this. The real action is coming when the memos are discovered over at the "Liberal" papers like Pravada. The L.A.Times' John carroll fessed up to an active desire to slant to the right a couple of months back. Then he went and attacked the Steroid Nazi for being a sleazebag. It'll be interesting to see how that all plays out -- espcially when the Steroid Nazi's photo ops begin to pale.
"They deliberately accuse others of what they are themselves doing. The rightists are nothing if not consistent."
It's called "diverting attention."
Amazing, is'nt it, that we all stand shocked and apalled at the emergence of "proof" of something we have seen as clear as day has been going on for some time.
Even as non-TV-journalist myself, my imagination filled in the blanks on what has been going on in the Fox "News" editorial rooms long ago. Accurately it would seem. I had always imagined a Memo, quietly frustrated journalists accepting political directives from the political activists/senior editors, etc.
Are the journalists really frustrated at Fox News? I mean, we're all assuming that most of the Fox News journalists are just regular folks who can't seem to do their job because the execs are forcing them to spin. Why don't you think the journalists at Fox News aren't also right wing hacks too? After all, who doesn't know that working for Fox News means working for the GOP's propaganda machine? It's like people who become PR execs for repugnant politicians and then say they didn't mean any of it when they look for a new job on the other side. I don't buy any of it. You know what you're doing. If you sell out THAT BAD then your whole career should reflect it. Unless you make a conscious, career-reshaping decision to do things differently.
the "talent" are all right wing hacks but there's no reason to believe that all of the grunts are.
David is 100% right. This is just an opening salvo.
As when NBC had Rush on as an election night guest and most shrugged and Howie Kurtz said Rush was "mainstream"
The shift has already begun.
There's a need, though, to turn this into a movement and get it beyond the blogosphere. Fiven that Faux employs journalists and journalists usually know how to write, one of them should be able to put together a semi-readble book, drawing on their experience and others. With a good publisher, they could try to get all the slots that Bernie Goldeberg got on tv and in bookstores and scream "bias" and bloody murder if the tv and retail folks don't agree. There also must be some wage slave at Faux who's squirrelling away the memos for use at some future time, who could blow this wide open.
Of course there are "memos" and of course there are "talking points." Look how many times over the past few years Andrew Sullivan and Mickey Kaus launch attacks on the same subject at the same time. Howell Raines and the NY Times this past spring, then the LA Times during the California recall election, and now most recently, National Public Radio/PBS have been the targets of Sullivan, Kaus, and Company barbs. Just a coincidence? I don't think so, it should be readily apparent that these assaults are coordinated by someone in the right-wing propaganda machine, who sends out the marching orders for hacks like Sullivan & Kaus. I'll bet they get paid a pretty penny to promote the right-wing cause, too, no matter how often Sullivan might lament it's hard for him to make ends meet (I mean come on, the average Joe Journalist would be strapped to own both a Georgetown condo and a Provincetown shack, as I believe Sullivan does)...you can be sure the hacks are gonna keep beating on NPR/PBS until it gets picked up by the mainstream media...that's the genius, as sickening as it is to realize, of the right-wing propagand machine and their "hack inc." of Drudge, Sullivan, Kaus, and others...
My man Otis made this observation about Fox's coverage of the lawyer shooting today:
After the CNN story I hopped channels to see what FoxNews had to say about the wildfires. Instead of the wildfire story I was treated to FoxNews playing the entire shooting incident several times. They made sure to show the gunman firing point blank at the victim who was trying to shield himself behind a tree. The hosts nonchalantly joked about the situation during the clip. Then, the hosts had the nerve and tastelessness to poke fun at a bystander who was dressed, as they put it, "like a Hooter's waitress." They also continued to joke about the gunman being a poor shot along with several
other crass comments about the whole incident. These guys really pander to
the lowest common denominator don't they?
These people are despicable.
Patriotboy - "The hosts nonchalantly joked about the situation during the clip."
That is unconscionable. The guy wasn't killed and apparently is doing ok, but he was shot a number of times. There isn't anything funny about something like that, unless you are one of the hundreds of thousands of people in this country who have bought 100% the nasty stereotypes about lawyers, and think it's ok to shoot them.
Add to that the repeated showing of the clip, instead of any news, and it's like an SNL news parady.
I'm right on the edge of suffering total Right Wing burnout - I just don't know how much more I can take before I lapse into a catatonic state.
Why has it taken us so long to counterattack? Why have we not even begun to counterattack?
I'm definitely part of the problem. When I look at the incredible success of the Big Lie at every level in this ostensibly free country, washing over the uninformed every day and every hour, I just want sit down, give up, chemically alter my consciousness, read blogs, and wait for the New Great Depression that will wake up all the Wal-Mart shoppers and flag-decal patriots.
Hey Tena, great minds...
Well, I'm surprised Faux is making fun of lawyers since, as an industry, they're the biggest contributors to Bush's election campaign so far this year.
According to a DU article, Fox NewsCorp is the 12th largest financier.
I'm surprised no one has brought up the case of Fox reporters Jane Akre and Steve Wilson. They worked for a Fox News affiliate, but I think they're case is still telling:
The Associated Press
February 18, 2003
Florida court overturns jury award to former TV reporter
LAKELAND, Fla. (AP) - A state appeals court overturned a $ 425,000 jury award to a former Tampa TV news reporter who claimed she was fired for refusing to include misleading information in a story.
In a unanimous decision Feb. 14, the 2nd District Court of Appeal said Jane Akre failed to show the Tampa station, Fox affiliate WTVT, had violated any state laws.
"It's vindication for WTVT, and we're very pleased," station general manager Bob Linger said. "It's the case we've been making for two years. She never had a legal claim."
Akre can still appeal the decision. She could not be reached for comment because she did not have a listed phone number.
Akre and then-husband Steve Wilson claimed WTVT executives and a Fox network attorney encouraged inclusion of false statements in a story about bovine growth hormone, or BGH, a substance manufactured by the Monsanto Corp.
The couple produced a four-part series that said Florida supermarket chains did little to avoid selling milk from cows treated with the hormone, despite assuring customers otherwise.
Akre and Wilson claimed they were wrongfully fired for refusing to use misleading information in the story and because they had threatened to report the station to the Federal Communications Commission.
The station said they were fired because of insubordination.
In August 2000, a jury awarded Akre $ 425,000, saying the station retaliated against her for threatening to blow the whistle on a false or distorted news report.
The appeals court said Akre's threat to report the station's actions to the FCC didn't deserve protection under the state whistle blower's statute.
Also:
The Hollywood Reporter
September 9, 2003, Tuesday
HEADLINE: Docu trolls for big business 'Corporation' seeks U.S. distributor
TORONTO _ Producers of a feature documentary highly critical of modern corporations found themselves wooing Hollywood's biggest corporations at the Toronto International Film Festival in a bid to snag U.S. distribution for their project.
Cinetic Media's Micah Green arranged a private screening of "The Corporation" on Monday in Toronto for such major film buyers as Fox Searchlight, Fine Line, Miramax, Paramount and Sony Pictures Classics ahead of an official press screening Tuesday and public screenings later this week.
"This is a better turnout than for most fiction movies in Toronto," Green said after the documentary, which features such talking heads as Michael Moore, Noam Chomsky and Milton Friedman, began rolling to the audience of select buyers.
Among others at the private screening were two publicists for Fox, who said they were keen to see the contribution in "The C
I'm sorry, I didn't realize the message got so long...
Here are the final relevant paragraphs of the second article:
Among others at the private screening were two publicists for Fox, who said they were keen to see the contribution in "The Corporation" from whistle-blowing former Fox reporters Jane Akre and Steve Wilson.
Akre and Wilson produced a report about the synthetic hormone rBGH, which is used in cows. Both were fired by Fox. Akre initially won a lawsuit against the media giant but lost on appeal.
I would love to see some Queen titles, myself
"Sheer Heart Attack" - wishful thinking for Dick Cheney.
Gosh, I am shocked to find out that Faux News has a morning memo, about as shocked as I would be to find out the Dick Cheney and the neo-cons started the Iraq war as a pretext for looting the U.S. treasury. Shocking.
i wonder if those judges were republicans
So, is Atrios a Yes fan?
Given his history on three continents why wouldn't anyone realize what Murdoch is all about. How can anyone in the business think it's about quality or news. He's a t&a tory not Ed Murrow.
Tena, please don't burn out.
Marching orders for neo-Commentators? Nooooooooo, not according to them. It's the LEFT (tm) getting marching orders from NKorea and Havana and Billary when they ask too many questions about dear leader or wonder if single payer health care might be a good idea. Yes, all neo-cons are independent, intelligent bias detecting savants. Idiots, too.
Is it YES appreciation day?
I love these headlines. I am off to listen to some YES right now.
I've seen all good people turn their heads each day so satisfied I'm on my way.....
People who are "middle of the road" tend to get run over.
Best to stay on one side or the other.
As for "dumbing down" this has been going on since the 50's.
The 1850's
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