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Have you seen "Outfoxed"?
Just in case anyone here still harbors the notion that Fox News is a legitimate news organization.
Yeah, baby! Work that Hamas threat! Let's see some flop sweat people!FOX NEWS INTERNAL MEMO: "Be On The Lookout For Any Statements From The Iraqi Insurgents...Thrilled At The Prospect Of A Dem Controlled Congress"...
Posted November 14, 2006 06:50 PM
Huffington Post has obtained an internal Fox News memo written by the network's Vice President of news. The memo details Fox's game plan the day Democrats won control of both the Senate and the House.
Sure enough, the good soldiers at Fox News followed orders...
'Live Desk' Follows Script of Fox News Memo
Reported by Judy - November 15, 2006 - 91 comments
How closely did Fox News reporters follow the script laid out for them last Thursday (November 9, 2006) in that leaked memo obtained by Huffington Post? The evidence from Martha MacCallum's "Live Desk" for that day indicates she is one of the most loyal foot soldiers Fox News has. Updated with video
The memo, by Fox's vice president for news, instructs staff members to be on the lookout for any information from insurgents in Iraq, who, the memo says "must be thrilled" at Democratic victories in last week's midterm elections.
The memo's wording may explain where Martha MacCallum got the idea for her report later that day that insurgents were "cheering in the streets" over the Democratic victories.
During the "Live Desk" show that aired the same day as the memo, MacCallum claimed without
providing any details or sources that there were "some reports of cheering in the streets on the behalf of the supporters of the insurgency in Iraq, that they’re very pleased with the way things are going here and also with the resignation of Donald Rumsfeld."
Then she asked guest Erick Stakelbeck, a terrorism analyst for CBN (Christian Broadcasting Network), "What does the Democratic leadership mean for the war on terror?"
Stakelbeck referred to Palestinians who advised Americans to vote Democratic, but he did not refer to any Iraqi insurgents celebrating a Democratic victory.
Was MacCallum's "source" for the happiness of insurgents in fact nothing more than the morning memo from her boss? We'll never know, but the coincidence is certainly suggestive.
MacCallum's eagerness to follow the company line toward Democrats goes farther than the "cheering in the streets." The memo also includes a reminder, as if a Fox News foot soldier needed one, to keep up the focus on the war on terror. "Just because Democrats won, the war on terror isn't over," it says.
A few hours later, MacCallum aired throughout her show snippets from a do entary shown on Fox News previously called "Obsession: The Threat of Radical Islam." And MacCallum returned repeatedly to the question: "So what does a Democratic victory mean for things like the war on terror abroad and here at home. The terrorists are still training out there so how will Democrats continue to fight?"
And as her guest Stakelbeck opined about the Democrats, the lower-third graphic warned: "Terror Experts: Waiting for Ripple Effect in War on Terror." The chyron re-appeared several times during the hour.
She kept up the focus on the war on terror during the "A-List" segment when she claimed that Democrats don't want the U.S. government to be able to listen to terrorists' phone calls. And she brought in Fox News' John Gibson from the "Big Story," who claimed that lifting habeas corpus was not something over which people should engage in "heavy breathing."
The existence of such a memo giving MacCallum and other Fox News staff their daily marching orders in and of itself is not news. Robert Greenwald's "Outfoxed" do entary on Fox News revealed the existence of many such memo written by Fox Vice President for News John Moody, as producer Jim Gilliam discusses in another Huffington Post piece.
But the partisan tone of this memo goes well beyond those. For example, the memo also portrayed the contest for House Majority leader between Democrats John Murtha and Steny Hoyer as "a former hawk v. a political hack."
Can we imagine the outcry from the right-wing echo chamber had someone at CBS News written a memo referring to Tom DeLay as a "political hack"?
Maybe Fox News will have Bernie Goldberg on to hash that over.
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Last edited by PixelPusher; 11-16-2006 at 01:00 AM.
Have you seen "Outfoxed"?
Wait a minute? Fox News spews GOP propoganda?. No, No way I don't believe it.
in these troubling times it's best not to question foxnews, cause that's what the terrorists want us to do.
Fox should be watched for the Simpsons and the NFL only.
Dan Rather was ran off for less.......much, much less.
Liberal media my ass.
The cons are notably silent.
Find an equivalent memo from CNN if you want to prove the "liberal media" myth.
Those guys are the sorest losers ever.
how do you know that doc is legit?
Because Fox hasn't sued huffingtonpost.
maybe they don't feel like wasting money.
They're paying a murderer to talk about how he murdered and got away with it. Good to know they have their priorities straight.
you forgot Family Guy
then explain Hannity
Still stuck in the "denial stage" of grief.
Ahem: they STILL NOT LEGIT
SMH
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I see er Carlson up to his old tricks
So do most that have responded believe liberal media to be legit? No propaganda on that side?
i only tune in to corporate media to see what they’re pushing from time to time. I don’t trust either side.
grew up with "broken family", abandoned by mother, but grew up and educated as a wealthy privileged prick, inflaming the low-ed, low-wage, old white men, rubes, bubbas, dimestore cowboys, and assorted rurals.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tucker..._and_education
CNN >>>>>>> Faux "news"
"both sides" live on advertising $Ms, so esp MSM will not expose how rotten some of their advertisers are, esp BigFinance, BigPharma, BigCarbon
So the oligarchy actually controls the MSM/Fox News, the "messaging" that keeps the citizens uninformed and misinformed.
Last edited by boutons_deux; 06-13-2020 at 09:08 AM.
Reading your posts you seem very level headed.
So I am going to add something to your post and ask a question.
We all have to gather information somehow to be able to comment because we cant "be in the room"
I have got to say if you mean not listening to corporate media means following twitter, facebook, social media platforms you will end up in some fantasy world like the GreatFloatingPlot (The Great Yacht)
Question: What do you read?
" not listening to corporate media means following twitter, facebook, social media platforms you will end up in some fantasy world "
bull , another pfarten gawdawful "take"
So I will read or watch anything just about, but be slow to decide. Your point of being “in the room” is my point on everything, especially history. In the last ten years, I probably look more at different takes on history. Trying to get a better nderstanding of history I believe allows a better interpretation of news, but to answer your question, I will read or watch a lot about what Ron Paul has to say about current events. I usually like to find forums such as this and read articles recommended by those that seem to be, as you put it, level headed. Even still, I will read what I can even if I don’t think I will agree with it.
It takes a lot of time to search the web for news. I am not a social media guy at all, so I don’t get it from places like that, although I do have friends that if they share a link, I will try to read it.
in my humble opinion, the federal reserve, world banking, and IMF is what rules this planet. When news sources and political parties are reluctant to be critical or show desire to eliminate it, then my opinion is that they are not likely to talk about any news that will be beneficial but just perpetuate the divisions among us like we see in this forum.
i appreciate your response.
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