I am seeking clarification on if Mediaite will continue to not report badly on MSNBC and only attack FOX because of the the conflict of interest of its “columnists.”

A media watchdog website, whose owner is a reporter for a media outlet. Conflicted much? or just hypocrasy at it’s finest?

Get over it germ. Beck is a snake and doesn’t belong on Fox or any other cable show.

I wish Germ held Fox News to the same standards he’s trying to hold Mediaite to.

Great news for us who hate Glenn Beck. I hope this wounds him. I’m for anything that can take this guy’s career or livelihood down.

Maybe this is a cog in Beck’s plan to… RULE THE WORLD!!!!! :/ This is the level of desperation only seen in
Palin haters.

Well.. I’m sure all of this will be as successful as the boycott because this couldn’t possibly be connected I’m sure. This is all tied into the nonsensical idea that Beck is ‘creating’ fear out of thin air.. and just as he points out, he is welcome to the WH correcting him. Fox asking for clarification is just their way of appeasing the loony left, they don’t care just like everyone else.

I’m pretty open about my distaste for Glenn Beck. I think he’s a horrible, horrible human being. Worse is Roger Ailes for enabling him.

M says,

Sorry M but when Fox is the only non liberal news channel in the game you don’t have much of a choice.
It would be nice to have a different one out there but there isn’t.

first off i do believe this is definitely a newsworthy issue and one which mediaite should be covering. there does seem to be a conflict of interest going on.

i do agree with your point though germ. the few times msnbc is reported on mediaite its with favorable reviews of rachel maddow (often glowingly cheered on by glynnis). though i think i remember olberman getting called out for his hyprocisy once.

fox news is usually attacked for being biased and a right wing instrument and is always attacked with snide comments.

i do believe mediaite tries to be fair overall but when the large majority of their writers are liberals it obviously shows in their presentation

m says:
December 14, 2009 at 4:13 pm

“I’m for anything that can take this guy’s.. livelihood down.”

Beck is extreme? Are you f-ing serious?

But he definitely was. Ha.

I hate to question your journalistic integrity… because he’s got enough trouble trying to breath beneath the layers and layers of bias… BUT, how do you know he “definitely was?” Because it said it on the Gold website? Is that enough proof? I dunno… perhaps it was a typo… perhaps he’s considered a “paid spokesman” because he reads their commercial on the radio (as most radio personalities do)… how can you say this with 100% positivity?

m says:
December 14, 2009 at 4:16 pm

I’m pretty open about my distaste for Glenn Beck. I think he’s a horrible, horrible human being. Worse is Roger Ailes for enabling him.

Yes, everyone who doesn’t agree with you politically is “horrible horrible.” I just don’t think many people are swayed by your “ego ego.”

@ImNotBlue: The Daily Show clip shows a video of Beck on-camera talking about his “friend’s” at GoldLine. Now, I sort of get the feeling that it’s from a promotional video or maybe an infomercial — it really doesn’t read like a :30 — and I don’t know the date it was produced, but why would he have done it, if he wasn’t being compensated?

Magister says:
December 14, 2009 at 4:52 pm

…but why would he have done it, if he wasn’t being compensated?

Ah… I didn’t know that, good answer! That does seem to imply that he IS being compensated for it. Hmmm… any idea on when the video is from? That would really be the only other excuse I could think of. If it’s from a more recent date, then this sure does have the appearance of a conflict of interest. The only saving grace is that EVERYONE has been talking about gold as a good buy, but still… the appearance of favoring one source over another, or perhaps pushing it harder than the facts require is a problem.

Thanks for the clarification!

This website (run by MSNBC’s own Dan Abrams) is soo obsessed with attacking and nit picking all things Fox News or conservative. Shit is bananas, everyday, something on Beck, O’Reilly, Palin. Notice there’ll never be a negative story about those douchebags at MSNBC cause little Danny doesn’t want to throw any of his old homies under the bus. Mediaite, by the left, for the left….markass bustas.

For openers, there may in fact be a line crossed if Beck continually brings up the importance of gold on his shows while he is endorsing a gold company. I can say that he has been pushing a gold paltform against the dilluting dollar well before he was promoting Goldline, but now that he does promote for them there is an appearance of conflict of interest.

That said it would in fact be refreshing to see coverage on this site of some of the leftist commentators that was on par with the daily dose of Beck. I’m not protecting the FOX host, just suggesting that an equal amount of coverage on, say, Olbermann’s numerous flubs and foibles would be refreshing, as well as bolstering Mediaite’s credentials, no? Challenge and cover Beck, that is fine, but how about more of the same from contrasting idealogues as well?

Magister says:
December 14, 2009 at 4:52 pm

@ImNotBlue: The Daily Show clip shows a video of Beck on-camera talking about his “friend’s” at GoldLine. Now, I sort of get the feeling that it’s from a promotional video or maybe an infomercial — it really doesn’t read like a :30 — and I don’t know the date it was produced, but why would he have done it, if he wasn’t being compensated?–

Considering they were the exclusive sponsor of his comedy tour what’s the big deal?!

@MartiniShark: I understand your point, but that little “Power Grid” box on the mainpage shows Beck having a blog and web “buzz” roughly four times that of O’Reilly. The rise of Beck is a media phenomenon and through however you’d like to define his shtick, he never fails to entertain.

As for anything on par with Beck’s conflict of interest concerning MSNBC/NBC, the best I can come up with are those puff-videos Carl Quintanilla did with Jeffrey Immelt as extended web commercials and not only is the subject much less interesting, but the conflict is considerably less clear.

Daily Finance — Update: Glenn Beck no longer a ‘paid spokesman’ for Goldline
http://www.dailyfinance.com/2009/12/14/update-glenn-beck-no-longer-a-paid-spokesman-for-goldline/

Are his constant recommendations and endorsements for free market capitalism a secret plan to become successful, rich, powerful, and ultimately in control of the country??? STAY TUNED!

m wrote:

Great news for us who hate Glenn Beck. I hope this wounds him. I’m for anything that can take this guy’s career or livelihood down.

It’s a good thing for you he’s not President. Someone might accuse you of being unpatriotic.

Every comment that says “why does Mediate go after FNC all the time”? has me wonder — you have been saying this since the site went up, and yet you seem to be flabbergasted at every article that isn’t in total agreement with your Cluster-Fox p.o.v. Are you that slow, or just have that much time on your hands??

By the by, it’s really fascinating how Mediate reports on Richard Wolf’s new employer was not being clearly identified every single time he was introduced/credited and there was such vitriol about it….yet MSNBC corrected themselves – on air, multiple times (yeah, Keith can admit a mistake unlike Faux-News) but when there is a serious conflict of interest with Beck/Goldline that is EXPLICITLY stated in Fixed-News rules (they have those?) but that’s being biased against FNC?

You can stop defending Beck, it’s pathetic. he’s a big boy and he’s safe in his multi-million $$ compound.

ingenieux says:
December 14, 2009 at 6:58 pm

This site talks about, and attacks, FNC more than any other channel. True, FNC gets bigger ratings than any other channel, but the level of anger and attack directed at them vastly outweighs that of the other networks.

Yes, it has been this was since it started. There are a few writers who do a pretty fair job down the middle… and then a bunch of lean sharply to the left.

As to you “question” about why “we” still hang around here… well, there are a few reasons. If we didn’t, who would? Folks like you might wind up swallowing the lies, distortions, and hypocrisy that others are happy to feed you. Some of us want you to see that there is more than just the left-wing slant on everything, all the time. Furthermore… not EVERYTHING here is biased, and sometimes dealing with the overt bias helps build our own arguments and proficiencies. Only speaking to those who always agree (like Olbermann does, whom will get to in a moment), gets boring… and post after post of, “Yeah, you’re right!” doesn’t really do anything.

Now, you brought up Mr. Olbermann… stating (quite humorously) that he admits mistakes. This couldn’t be farther from the truth. In another thread last week, I posted a link to this story, where KO hypocritically attacks ABC for “editing video.” Of course, what he doesn’t tell you -and doesn’t later correct- to “prove” this, he had to “edit video,” thereby doing the SAME THING he was complaining about:

http://media.nationalreview.com/post/?q=ZjIwZmY1OWM3YzM3NTRhMmEwMTQ3NGZiNTVhYWRkODY=

This story never made it on Mediaite’s radar. That’s why I had to bring it up myself… so people like you can see that your hero Olbermann, is just as “pathetic” as the people you’d prefer to complain about. See… I’m doing a service!

But a quick follow-up question… what are YOU doing here? If we all disturb you so much, and you hate everything FOX related (and are happy to repeat KO’s name-calling like “Cluster Fox”… how original you must be to simple repeat what he says)… why do you bother coming here? Do you have “that much time on your hands?”

I’m Not Blue answered ingenieux:

As to you “question” about why “we” still hang around here…

I’ll tell you why I like hanging around here:

1. Hardly anybody else is. You know when a thread says “more inside” it means nobody cares enough to either click or comment. This means whoever IS showing up is reading your comments.

2. It’s fun pointing out to hacks how hacky they are, especially when they try to fight back and run out of intellectual ammo.

@ ingenieux

Speaking only for myself, I clearly was not defending Beck, simply asking for a more varied type of coverage here. Barely a day passes without Beck’s mug fronting a post, and clearly that is because his content draws the views and comments. That’s fine, but how about some salvos directed at both sides? This is titled MEDIAite, not MEDIUMite, after all. Interesting and objectionable occurances happen on both sides of the spectrum.

While everyone here is arguing about Glenn Beck, I think you’re missing the importance of his message.
I’m selling everything I own (including my mobile home) and buying gold.
Keep up your silly arguments about Glenn, I’m going all in.
Gold, baby.
You folks are the same people who were arguing over the propriety of Gretchen Carlson interviewing one of her husband’s clients.
How silly!
Keep arguing over the little stuff while I’m buying up all of the gold I can!
Thanks Glenn!

Way to go Jon Stewart! Too bad our “liberal” media always seems to get scooped by a comedy show.

Careful, Jon, anymore of that and the righties will notice the DOW is up 35% since the hated one was sworn in and that wouldn’t be good for gold at all.

I’m Not Blue – Bigger to me on the Blowhardmann front is the way that he laughed off the Fort Dix Six plot as being insignificant and overblown for the purpose of scaring up GOP votes.

From the May 8, 2007 transcript STILL on MSNBC.com, herrrrre’s Olby:

OLBERMANN: And one other note today. The ultimate premise of the war in Iraq and the ultimate premise, certainly, of the Republican presidential campaign ahead, counterterrorism. The FBI claims it has broken up a plot to attack Fort Dix in New Jersey. The flaw, though, in the breathless reporting of the purported terror cell, the bureau infiltrated the six-person group after its members took video of themselves practicing with assault weapons, brought the tape to a photo store, and had it transferred to a DVD.

The details of the supposed plot don‘t seem to hold together that well either, though that did not stop extensive and entirely credulous coverage on TV, the Internet, in print today. The men supposedly had plans to gain access to the base disguised as pizza delivery guys, then cut the power somehow, they, quote, “hit four, five, or six Humvees and light the whole place, and retreat without any losses.” And take the tape of yourselves practicing and have it copied at PhotoMat. In other words, the FBI has arrested six morons.

Didn’t occur to Sports Boy that the attacks on 9/11 didn’t have all that complicated a plan after learning how to crash the planes was accomplished (Turning three jumbo jets into guided missiles while only armed with box cutters? Stop it, you’re killin’ me!). And to prevent from giving the Bush WH any cred for fighting terror, he wouldn’t even give grudging credit to the FBI for stopping what was a sincere plot against American soldiers by serious (albeit ragtag) jihadists who not only were convicted, but who shouted “Allahu Akbar” upon the reading of their life sentences.

Oh good Gawd NotSoAnonymous (posing here as TinafromTampa)….go away you pest, troll, internet stalker. What a pathetic individual you are.

Jim R wrote:

Careful, Jon, anymore of that and the righties will notice the DOW is up 35% since the hated one was sworn in and that wouldn’t be good for gold at all.

Here’s what BHO said about the Dow back on March 3, 2009:

PRESIDENT OBAMA: … And I’m absolutely confident that credit is going to be flowing again, that businesses are going to start seeing opportunities for investment, they’re going to start hiring again, people are going to be put back to work.

What I’m looking at is not the day-to-day gyrations of the stock market, but the long-term ability for the United States and the entire world economy to regain its footing. And, you know, the stock market is sort of like a tracking poll in politics. It bobs up and down day to day, and if you spend all your time worrying about that, then you’re probably going to get the long-term strategy wrong.

“Like a tracking poll in politics.” Uh huh.

NINE MONTHS LATER…he’s still trying to find out where all the credit, investment, and jobs are coming from. By his own measure of what matters, he’s failing. And according to him, the Dow doesn’t mean squat. So HE would reject your argument.

Meanwhile, the unabated plans for increased spending promises to crash the dollar to new depths.

Nice try.

Well then LNSmithee, you should buy gold asap because we are all going to die and give ImNotBlue a big wet kiss. Just for kicks.

TinaFromTampa says:
December 14, 2009 at 8:35 pm

NsA… here’s something interesting… in the very same article from the NYTimes that Bill Carter talked about Beck’s gold stuff, and Carlson’s potential “conflict” (which was really really weak)… he ALSO talked about NBC’s conflict… which wasn’t really highlighted by YOU or around these parts. I wonder why?

Anyway, here’s what Spud over at ICN wrote last week:

Carter writes of the Salahi mess…

The section was intended to show Mr.Lauer pressing the Salahis to acknowledge that neither “Today” nor NBC had paid them anything for the interview. Mr. Lauer said: “Are you appearing here today in any way because of any financial deal that you have made with this network? Are we paying you for this appearance in any way?”

But in specifically citing “this network” Mr. Lauer left open the question of whether another network — in this case Bravo — could have some financial arrangement with the Salahis.

Ms. Kapp said the president of NBC News, Steve Capus, was not available for comment. She offered a statement: “We stand by Matt’s interview of the Salahis. Matt asked all of the questions that were of interest when this interview was conducted.”

I give Carter credit for spotting the nuance in Lauer’s question as I immediately thought the same thing when I heard it. This smells fishy and NBC’s pivoting response does not assuage suspicion. If there’s dirt to be found here, it won’t stay buried. It will get out eventually. NBC should consider this going forward.

http://insidecablenews.wordpress.com/2009/12/04/in-depth-conflicts-of-interest-and-disclosures/#more-8158

So… you wanna tell me why that is acceptable to you? Nah… you don’t. You wanna go back to attacking FOX and stalking people around the internet.

Stalking fun and all (I guess), but you might want to leave actual “thinking” to the rest of us.

Jim R says:
December 14, 2009 at 9:01 pm

And here I thought that the DOW wasn’t a good indicator of the economy. I mean, that’s what the media was saying when it was going down… wasn’t it?

Oh… and FYI… the reason why the rest of “the media” didn’t find this out… is because, nobody cares! The MSM doesn’t necessarily priorities “taking down FOX” with the same ferocity you do. That doesn’t mean they’re not Liberal… only that they’ve got SOME priorities.

LNSmithee says:
December 14, 2009 at 9:17 pm

Well remember… when Bush was President, there was no terrorist plots… they were all just made up. When Obama is President, he sneezes and the world is safer. It’s just more drooling at the mouth fanaticism from KO… but at least we know what to expect from him.

Pray to the ALMIGHTY on whether or not you should buy gold. Yeah, I’ve heard Beck say that twice in the last several days. This guy is at a level of bullshit artist rarely seen in our modern world.

Trickletown says:

It’s funny that liberals act like they are for freedom of everything but thought and belief….

on a related note and since mediaite would never touch this story:

al gore quotes a doomsday figure about arctic ice melting in his speech at copenhagen, only to have the scientist he quoted refute what gore claimed…

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/environment/copenhagen/article6956783.ece

ImNotBlue says:
December 14, 2009 at 10:13 pm
That’s what I love about the internets.
You copy and paste someone else’s ideas (at lest you do it with attribution) and you consider that to be “thinking.” It’s only appropriate you put the word in quote marks.
Meanwhile, the item you cite, raises only a question — it doesn’t provide any proof.
But it’s apparent you would rather ignore the proof regarding relationships between Mr. Beck and Goldline and Ms. Carlson’s husband and Mr. Jeter.

Jon Stewart puts Beck on the defensive, Palin steps in a pile of Palin, Ann Coulter says something stupid — and someone alway turns to an argument about Global Warming. ADHD anyone?

Let’s not fail to see that there are multiple gold vendors on Fox News.. on all day long and other news nets. It was a Fox News agreement with Goldline to advertise on the channel.. NOT with Beck. He is a spokesman on his website and radio show but there is certainly NOTHING wrong with that since he owns them.. well, unless you yourself find a problem with it as a listener or if your on the left. If anyone is at fault here, its FNC for allowing Goldline to advertise during Beck’s program since they KNEW FULL WELL before Beck even started of that relationship. I personally find it ridiculous.

Let’s just apply the same old double standards though.. let’s say Jim Cramer came out and endorses eTrade or something. Since his business is recommending stock market moves he has a conflict of interest. Ridiculous.

the visionary says:
December 15, 2009 at 3:49 am

Let’s save this for the “Moment of Glenn” that will come up shortly, right after Glynnis gets her marching order from KOS or MoveOn.

Good find!

TinaFromTampa says:
December 15, 2009 at 6:51 am

What in the heck are you talking about? Proof? Proof of what? Of what was said in the NYTimes article? What are you talking about? Stalking is starting to mush your brains.

That’s what I love about the internets.

That’s what you love? I thought it was stalking that you loved.

Could it be that Mr. Beck is advising people what to do to remain solvent in a country with a fiat currency? Hmmm….If I recall correctly, those who have positioned themselves in gold bullion are becoming more wealthy. Is there something wrong with giving people GOOD advice? I submit that those who condemn Mr. Beck are those who wish they had some gold, too.