Yoni and friends, prove to us again with all that "fair and balanced" data that Fox Repug Propaganda network is a true, objective "news" organization.
a former insider from the world of Rupert Murdoch was quick with a response: “I don’t think people would believe it’s as concocted as it is; that stuff is just made up.”
Indeed, a former Fox News employee who recently agreed to talk with Media Matters confirmed what critics have been saying for years about Murdoch’s cable channel. Namely, that Fox News is run as a purely partisan operation, virtually every news story is actively spun by the staff, its primary goal is to prop up Republicans and knock down Democrats, and that staffers at Fox News routinely operate without the slightest regard for fairness or fact checking.
“It is their M.O. to undermine the administration and to undermine Democrats,” says the source. “They’re a propaganda outfit but they call themselves news.”
“They say one thing and do another. They insist on maintaining this charade, this façade, that they’re balanced or that they’re not right-wing extreme propagandist,” says the source. But it’s all a well-orchestrated lie, according this former insider. It’s a lie that permeates the entire Fox News culture and one that staffers and producers have to learn quickly in order to survive professionally.
“You have to work there for a while to understand the nods and the winks,” says the source. “And God help you if you don’t because sooner or later you’re going to get burned.”
“You could never error on the side of not being intolerant enough.”
“It was a kick ass mentality too,” says the former Fox News insider. “It was relentless and it never went away. If one controversy faded, goddamn it they would find another one. They were in search of these points of friction real or imagined. And most of them were imagined or fabricated. You always have to seem to be under siege. You always have to seem like your values are under attack. The brain trust just knew instinctively which stories to do, like the War on Christmas.”
Fox News is designed to mislead its viewers and designed to engage in a purely political enterprise.
http://www.alternet.org/module/printversion/149879
the sky is blue...water is wet...
It's funny that collage had the "Is Mr. Rogers Ruining Kids" thing in there.
There has been a lot of really, ty, evil Fox bull over the years. That ones takes the cake as the most mean-spirited and ty of them all. If not so consequential.
That jumped out at me too.
Leave it to the s bags running Fox "news" to on a guy who was probably numbered among the saintly, kind, and good among us.
Funny...
How many insiders have now talked about Fox in such a way?
Maybe just the one?
Until several more say the same thing, I think we can call this bull . Even the so-called journalist reporting this works with a left leaning bias.
a Fox Repug Propaganda ex-insider confirms what us Super Intelligent and Perceptive Outsiders have been saying for years.
Therefore, WC trashes the ex-insider as untrustable, and WC "needs more data, needs more study".
Just who is this unnamed source?a Fox Repug Propaganda ex-insider confirms what us Super Intelligent and Perceptive Outsiders have been saying for years.
Therefore, WC trashes the ex-insider as untrustable, and WC "needs more data, needs more study".
I simply have trouble with that.
unnamed...
Don't post much these days, should have to present my bona fides - but suffice it to say:
Resident arch-conservative here.
Never had cable until two months ago.
Really.
Fox "News" is unwatchable.
It is, in fact, worse than the "MSM"; although that's not saying a great deal.
I watch PBS News Hour,and BBC World pretty much exclusively, or simply peruse the internet for what's going on.
Fox is really, really bad.
dude look at foxnews.jpg
just look at it.
do you understand what the word "bias" means?
Cobra just being the idiot he's supposed to be.
When you guys start complaining to the same degree about MSNBC, CNN, etc... I'll consider such arguments might be valid. Until then, hold off on your hypocrisy please.
Somehow i seriously doubt guys like WC and some others on here get their news strictly from Fox. I'm conservative yet I rarely ever turn it on. I do like their layout a lot more than the other networks though.
The rest of the channels spew liberal propaganda and I don't watch any of them. We aren't talking about them, we are talking about Fox News.
Nothing should keep you from seeing that Fox News absurdly biased. You have literally just said that you are willfully ignorant. I am not a liberal, as I am sure you have just implied, and I do not appreciate being called a hypocrite for doing nothing but pointing out the AMAZING hypocrisy of Fox News claiming they are "Fair & Balanced".
We are living in Orwellian times, and people like you are the reason why.
There would be no MSNBC without Fox News. If you hate MSNBC, blame Fox.
Or rather, its intellectually impotent viewers. Seriously, if you can watch 15 minutes of that garbage without feeling like you're being spoken to like a gullible and emotionally oversensitive fool, then you probably are one.
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Wild Cobra, you really are pathetic.
You choose to ignore truth and facts and will only consider it when "the other team (democrats) acknolwedges some stuff too!"
do you see how dishonest you are to yourself?
that's so pathetic, so dumbed down, i want to puke. i hope you are just trolling and not actually like this.
any honest, intellectual will NOT CARE what the "other team" is doing, what a foreign en y is doing. they will have enough self-respect and a desire for self-improvement (that never goes away until death).. that they would look within themselves and fix and improve themselves, REGARDLESS of what anyone else is doing... because your OWN values dictate who you are and what you will accept.... instead, look at you wild cobra...just look at you.
wild cobra, seriously, i hope you are trolling. if you aren't, you have to take a long good look at yourself in the mirror.
I think that's some of the kinder words you have used regarding me.
thank-You.
I see the partisan action in play. I am simply sick and tired of these continual "rant" threads about republicans. Should republicans and conservatives choose to "rant" about every little thing we found wrong with democrats and liberals, the threads would be endless.
I'm not being dishonest, but pointing out true concerns.
Who is this unnamed source? How safe is it to assume (s)he is a disgruntled employee that well say anything for retribution? I can see truth in the basic message, but not to the degree stated.
Didn't you know...
I love trolling for you hot-headed idiots.
Are you saying it's improper to point out the hypocrisy you are guilty of?
I guess you'll never know.
cooler girl has fashion sense.
figures
We just 86'd cable TV at my house. Feels great.
What the ?!?!Should republicans and conservatives choose to "rant" about every little thing we found wrong with democrats and liberals, the threads would be endless.
On the forum where the short-bus of the right wing posters here ed about an ipod?
I'm not a big fan of most TV, but I'd go nuts without ESPN, FoxSports, and TNT for the NBA and College hoops coverage.
All you gotta do is a sort the last two months worth of threads in this forum by thread starter and head to the end page or two.
Two full pages of bizarro boutons' rants in all their glory.
http://www.spurstalk.com/forums/foru...une=60&page=13
http://www.spurstalk.com/forums/foru...&pp=25&page=14
Those two pages comprise a full 14% of ALL the threads commented on in the last 2 months, and more than any other single one poster, myself included.
Understandable. I'm much less of a sports maniac than I used to be.
Wait what...so you're telling me an "Insider" is reporting that Fox "News" is biased...only working for the right...and spins every story...
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