Dear activists, colleagues, and friends...
To laugh at the ridiculousness, to scream at the outrageous or to... Well fox went to new lows in their analysis of Petraeus' testimony last week. When our friends at Media Matters let us know that they had 7 to 1 analysts in favor of escalation, it was hard to believe, even for FOX! 22 minutes supporting the escalation and only 3 and half against it. They went to such great lengths, they even cut away to Ann Coulter when Democrats questioned Petraeus!
Bill had an idea to show all this in 90 seconds, so he and Jonathan jumped right into it. Then we argued amongst ourselves for two days about what we should do about it? What could we ask, encourage, motivate folks to do. Yelling at the TV screen not being a desired option.
So we throw the question to you, our activists and media observers. What should be done about FOX? And given this ridiculous imbalance, should we encourage liberals and Democrats to stop going on FOX until the rules are fair, the deck is not stacked?
Give us your thoughts…
Robert Greenwald
and the Brave New Films team
Here is the resulting video:
FOX's "balanced" analysis of the Petraeus hearings
Fox is biased.. I would have no problems with the dems avoiding the network all together. Can you imagine a post democrat presidential debate show on Fox? With Ann coulter and Sean hannity giving an unbiased viewpoint on the Dem presidential candidates and their views? Brit HUme?... I don't blame the dems from staying far, far away...
Msnbc
Yeah, it would be great to see them trying to answer
some tough questions. But no worry, they wouldn't dare
go on Fox because Moveon.org wont allow it. And they
give the marching orders for the Dimms.
xray...do you truly belive Ann Coulter is the voice of your party and that she has the best interests of all americans. Please......
tough questioning and fair questyioning are 2 different things ray.. don't play stupid
Ray don't play, man. Ray don't play.
Republicans have Fox to go on much like Democrats have the Daily Show, Real Time and other shows and outlets to go on. There is a political swing to all the news networks and news shows. Each side just seems to point to the other and think they are the only "fair and balanced" one. (i.e. All republicans think like ann coulter and all dems think like moveon etc...)
Daily Show is a comedy show on COMEDY CENTRAL!!! Fox News holds itself out as a real news organization.
while that may be true, there are a great number of people who get their news from shows like the Daily Show and that also carries the support of youth culture.
Has The Daily Show or Real Time ever claimed to be 1) a news source or 2) fair and balanced?
Do people 1) still get their news stories and info from there 2) do people form the opinions based on those shows?
check out the brains on this guy.
people can get their news from a loud mouth neighbor, does that mean the neighbor is a news organization?
Irrelevant. People could say they get their news from houseplants. To my knowledge, houseplants make no claims of journalistic integrity or impartiality either.
are houseplants fair and balanced?
I have seen no commercials with American flag graphics making that claim.
what if the houseplant delivers the news in a funny and irreverent way? would that mean Jon Stewart is a houseplant?
We never really see anything below desk level. He could be potted for all we know.
A better comparison to the shows mentioned above is made with talk radio.
Anyone getting the bulk of their news and opinions from either these shows or talk radio is a moron.
ok ok i'll turn down the volume
I torture myself daily by listening to limpballs and whannity. I am not surprised anymore to hear people call in and proudly proclaim that they make their kids listen to them. not only that they heap praise on these fools they tell their kids that they are getting the 'real' news....
I could really care less what your opinion of me is. throw out all the taunts and insults you wantcheck out the brains on this guy.
does their neighbor reach the ears of and influence millions?
How many times can Sean Hannity say Moveon.org in one day?
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