White house chastises media !

SteamWake · 10-13-09, 10:55 AM

Oh wait its only one particular media outlet

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Calling Fox News "a wing of the Republican Party," the Obama administration on Sunday escalated its war of words against the channel, even as observers questioned the wisdom of a White House war on a news organization.

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009...ords-fox-news/

NeonSamurai · 10-13-09, 11:11 AM

As a semi on topic comment, I wish TV news (and other sources) would return to the way it was 40 years ago or so, when it was more about objective news delivery, instead of this subjective crap they try to feed us. I can damn well think for myself; i don't need some anchorperson trying to tell me how to interpret events.

Most news on TV and print is subjective rubbish and often heavily biased towards a political orientation. That and all the rating grabbing stunts they pull, and the obsessive coverage of certain 'news' events (usually involving celebrities).

As for fox news, I freely admit I despise them, but I also have equal hatred for CNN and the rest of them pretty much.

On topic I agree that the white house should not be singling out specific news outlets unless their behavior is especially egregious (I don't think fox has quite gotten there.. yet anyhow).

AVGWarhawk · 10-13-09, 11:40 AM

It is not hard news anymore. It is opinion news. Nothing more.

mookiemookie · 10-13-09, 11:53 AM

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Originally Posted by AVGWarhawk

It is not hard news anymore. It is opinion news. Nothing more.

They've learned that this is what sells. Unfortunately.

NeonSamurai · 10-13-09, 12:13 PM

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Originally Posted by mookiemookie

They've learned that this is what sells. Unfortunately.

That's cause the general public prefers to be entertained, amused, titillated, and so on rather than informed. That and it seems that an awful lot of people prefer to have their opinions spoon fed to them rather then forming their own independently.

AVGWarhawk · 10-13-09, 12:20 PM

Opinions do sell. Ask Oprah.

Really, the old days of hard news are gone. Beck is like Howard Stern...shock jock

Scare tactics, innuendo are the order of the day at the news stations.

Skybird · 10-13-09, 12:52 PM

Starring the maybe worst propaganda channel amongst the major programs in all the Western world. What a surprise. Defamatory and manipulative they have always been, since years, but they have also become so personally insulting over the past 12 months and so aggressive and emotionally hysteric in their antipathy that it is no wonder that Obama first excluded them from official presidential reactions where all other major networks were not, and now attack them - even if doing so by only pointing out what is very obvious to the outside observer anyway. No other of the major networks seems to be so closely tied to a given political camp, and in that camp the radical fraction, like FOX. Even in europe, where most people even cannot receive it, FOX' devastating reputation is already legendary and already a synonyme for the worst standard of journalism possible. I personally am reminded of "Der schwarze Kanal" of the former state TV of the GDR. And back then we thought political journalism could not become any worse than that: intentionally destructive, defamatory and hilarous at the same time. Today we know it better. Compared to what I time and again pick up from FOX occasionally, the Bildzeitung is a lecture of highly intellectual niveau.

Spit.

Not so much because they are at war with Democrats, but because of very, very, very bad style and bad manners.

AVGWarhawk · 10-13-09, 12:59 PM

I do not believe you can encompass all of Fox's commentators/hosts. Personally I think Beck is neurotic as they come. O'Reilly is ok but does get a bit aggressive with his guests. However, I love it when he went after Barney Frank. Huckabee is fine and I believe could be an excellent journalist. You do have to admit. They have the hottest chicks on the show as part of the discussion about the news hands down.

August · 10-13-09, 01:04 PM

Fox is tied to the Republicans far less than ABC and a few others are tied to the Democrats.

If anything Fox needs to be more partisan to counteract it.

SteamWake · 10-13-09, 01:06 PM

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Originally Posted by Skybird

Starring the maybe worst propaganda channel amongst the major programs in all the Western world. .

Cnn, NBC, ABC, CBS, NPR, Msnbc, Fox?

Which one has the most propaganda?

Which one has the most viewers?

There all culpable in my opinion.

AVGWarhawk · 10-13-09, 01:21 PM

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Originally Posted by SteamWake

Cnn, NBC, ABC, CBS, NPR, Msnbc, Fox?

Which one has the most propaganda?

Which one has the most viewers?

There all culpable in my opinion.

Something to do with 'getting shivers up my leg' reporting.

mookiemookie · 10-13-09, 02:30 PM

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Originally Posted by NeonSamurai

That's cause the general public prefers to be entertained, amused, titillated, and so on rather than informed. That and it seems that an awful lot of people prefer to have their opinions spoon fed to them rather then forming their own independently.

"It is a far, far better thing to have a firm anchor in nonsense than to put out on the troubled seas of thought." —John Kenneth Galbraith

NeonSamurai · 10-13-09, 04:34 PM

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Originally Posted by mookiemookie

"It is a far, far better thing to have a firm anchor in nonsense than to put out on the troubled seas of thought." —John Kenneth Galbraith

Have to say I don't agree at all with that quote. Give me thought and reason any day even if I have to work hard and suffer for it, rather than being grounded in nonsense where I need not think.

Aramike · 10-13-09, 05:33 PM

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No other of the major networks seems to be so closely tied to a given political camp, and in that camp the radical fraction, like FOX.

REALLY?

How you ever watched MSNBC?

The brass at Fox News had it right when they said that the White House is incapable of distinguishing between news and commentary...

...either that, or they have a problem with commentary critical of them while being quite alright with the lineup of commentary shows supporting them, as is on MSNBC. Yet again its just more propaganda from this endlessly campaigning White House - and even you are buying into it, lock, stock, and barrel, without being fully informed of the issue on a first-hand basis.

FIREWALL · 10-13-09, 05:36 PM

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Originally Posted by NeonSamurai

As a semi on topic comment, I wish TV news (and other sources) would return to the way it was 40 years ago or so, when it was more about objective news delivery, instead of this subjective crap they try to feed us. I can damn well think for myself; i don't need some anchorperson trying to tell me how to interpret events.

Most news on TV and print is subjective rubbish and often heavily biased towards a political orientation. That and all the rating grabbing stunts they pull, and the obsessive coverage of certain 'news' events (usually involving celebrities).

As for fox news, I freely admit I despise them, but I also have equal hatred for CNN and the rest of them pretty much.

On topic I agree that the white house should not be singling out specific news outlets unless their behavior is especially egregious (I don't think fox has quite gotten there.. yet anyhow).

If the news was like it was 40yrs ago... That "Negro" wouldn't be President now.

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AVGWarhawk Lucky Jack Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: In a 1954 Buick. Posts: 28,253 Downloads: 90 Uploads: 0	It is not hard news anymore. It is opinion news. Nothing more. __________________ “You're painfully alive in a drugged and dying culture.” ― Richard Yates, Revolutionary Road

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AVGWarhawk Lucky Jack Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: In a 1954 Buick. Posts: 28,253 Downloads: 90 Uploads: 0	Opinions do sell. Ask Oprah. Really, the old days of hard news are gone. Beck is like Howard Stern...shock jock Scare tactics, innuendo are the order of the day at the news stations. __________________ “You're painfully alive in a drugged and dying culture.” ― Richard Yates, Revolutionary Road

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Skybird Soaring Join Date: Sep 2001 Location: the mental asylum named Germany Posts: 42,602 Downloads: 10 Uploads: 0	Starring the maybe worst propaganda channel amongst the major programs in all the Western world. What a surprise. Defamatory and manipulative they have always been, since years, but they have also become so personally insulting over the past 12 months and so aggressive and emotionally hysteric in their antipathy that it is no wonder that Obama first excluded them from official presidential reactions where all other major networks were not, and now attack them - even if doing so by only pointing out what is very obvious to the outside observer anyway. No other of the major networks seems to be so closely tied to a given political camp, and in that camp the radical fraction, like FOX. Even in europe, where most people even cannot receive it, FOX' devastating reputation is already legendary and already a synonyme for the worst standard of journalism possible. I personally am reminded of "Der schwarze Kanal" of the former state TV of the GDR. And back then we thought political journalism could not become any worse than that: intentionally destructive, defamatory and hilarous at the same time. Today we know it better. Compared to what I time and again pick up from FOX occasionally, the Bildzeitung is a lecture of highly intellectual niveau. Spit. Not so much because they are at war with Democrats, but because of very, very, very bad style and bad manners. __________________ If you feel nuts, consult an expert.

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AVGWarhawk Lucky Jack Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: In a 1954 Buick. Posts: 28,253 Downloads: 90 Uploads: 0	I do not believe you can encompass all of Fox's commentators/hosts. Personally I think Beck is neurotic as they come. O'Reilly is ok but does get a bit aggressive with his guests. However, I love it when he went after Barney Frank. Huckabee is fine and I believe could be an excellent journalist. You do have to admit. They have the hottest chicks on the show as part of the discussion about the news hands down. __________________ “You're painfully alive in a drugged and dying culture.” ― Richard Yates, Revolutionary Road

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