I know! But you keep doing it! Why?

As for me… I’ve provided more links and actual reference points this month, than you have since the site started. It’s hard for me to prove much, when the three amigos above provided nothing outside of foolish rants.

Oh, the notion that the White House is somehow not allowed to respond to the media is simply stupid. They also have a First Amendment right, and as long as they do not use the power of government to silence anyone, it is not a problem.

Recall just 2 years ago, the other side of the now useless media was making the same accusation at the Bush White House, and the Bush Administration was going after the media daily. All that has changed are the sides.

And, again – Fox IS the “mainstream media.” They lead in all ratings categories. You cannot get more mainstream than in the lead.

So come on… put up or shut up… give me a some evidence, not just goofy “I hate FOX” ramblings.

It’s always fun when someone accuses someone for something, when they do the exact same thing themselves.

In the other thread I posted about 20 videos links, and numerous CNN examples…

So, it’s your turn. You are avoiding the challenge, and pointing fingers. I know exactly what it looks like when someone doesn’t watch FOX and just repeats the MSNBC talking points about FOX – I know because I used to do it. Then I started watching FOX, and discovered it’s not true – they are more balanced. They just seem biased to liberals because they are saying things no one else is saying, and things liberals don’t want to hear. Check out O’Reilly’s Talking Points memo from 10/12.

The news reporting on FOX is very very fair. The commentary of Beck is conservative, Hannity is Republicans, O’Reilly is an Independent Conservative. Geraldo – liberal, Greta – Hillary supporter, not sure where she falls now, Cavuto- I think he was a Hillary supporter, at least he was very fair to them…

That is the difference. The news reporting on MSNBCNNABCNBC blah blah is slants liberal. The NEWS reporting. Commentary ok, news reports should not be biased, and they are.

I watch Morning Joe – who has his share of liberal guests. I watch Today show – very favorable to liberals. I watch videos from Beck and O’Reilly, and occasionally Hannity, Greta, the others, depending on the story. I read Memorandum, HotAir, Newsbusters, and all the stories of the day they feature. Which oftentimes takes me to Sullivan or HuffPO, videos of Olbermann or Tingles, etc. I read msnbc.com and foxnews.com every day. I get my fair share of exposure to both sides every day, because I feel it is important to listen/read both sides. So, I notice a slant, and feel a difference between the two (conservative vs. liberal bias) and overall, FOX is more fair and balanced.

Here’s an example – the other day, when the Nobel Peace Prize was announced, this was the original story on msnbc:

Rather than recognizing concrete achievement, the 2009 prize appeared intended to support initiatives that have yet to bear fruit: reducing the world stock of nuclear arms, easing American conflicts with Muslim nations and strengthening the U.S. role in combating climate change.

Within minutes, it was changed to this:

The Nobel Committee lauded the change in global mood wrought by Obama’s calls for peace and cooperation but recognized initiatives that have yet to bear fruit: reducing the world stock of nuclear arms, easing American conflicts with Muslim nations and strengthening the U.S. role in combating climate change.

The first was an entire article that was picked up from USAToday by NBC news Services – but MSNBC revised that paragraph to be more positive towards Obama.

How often do you watch FOX?

“When anyone still believes the Washington Post is liberal, with the largest stable of neocon war cheerleaders of any media staff, a paper recently on the cusp of conducting corporate salons to sell access to their “reporters”, someone’s definitely gone over the edge irretrievably.”

They were selling access to the WH administration and Congressional leaders, as well as reporters.

Politicoreported this morning that The Post has been soliciting lobbyists to pay from $25,000 to $250,000 to underwrite off-the-record “salons” at the home of publisher Katharine Weymouth that would provide access to administration and congressional leaders and the paper’s reporters and editors.

In a November 19, 2008 column, Washington Post ombudsman Deborah Howell stated: “I’ll bet that most Post journalists voted for Obama. I did. There are centrists at The Post as well. But the conservatives I know here feel so outnumbered that they don’t even want to be quoted by name in a memo”. Responding to criticism of the newspaper’s coverage during the run-up to the 2008 presidential election, Howell wrote: “The opinion pages have strong conservative voices; the editorial board includes centrists and conservatives; and there were editorials critical of Obama. Yet opinion was still weighted toward Obama. It’s not hard to see why conservatives feel disrespected”

In an June 2009 article on the conservative website newsmax.com, journalist Ronald Kessler reported that “… recent developments at the Washington Post demonstrate that a return to fair coverage attracts readers,” and that, “Since Katharine Weymouth became publisher more than a year ago, and she named Marcus Brauchli, a former Wall Street Journal editor, executive editor in September, the paper has been making an honest effort to be fair.

On October 17, 2008, the Post endorsed Barack Obama for President of the United States.

Beginning with Richard Nixon, conservatives have often cited the Post, along with The New York Times, as exemplars of “liberal media bias”. More recently, liberal critics have accused the publication of bias, as well.

Originally due to the perceived left-wing bias in both reporting and editorials, The Washington Post has been called “Pravda on the Potomac”, an allusion to the official newspaper of the Soviet communist party. Since then, the appellation has been used by both liberal and conservative critics of the Post.

That’s the stupidest thing I’ve read all day. Turn off Glenn Beck and Alex Jones. If you’re talking about the fairness doctrine; if Fox News was so fair-and-balanced they wouldn’t have anything to fear about such a thing. Nevertheless, cable television is not transmitted over the public airwaves so the FCC has absolutely no jurisdiction to dictate the guidelines of any of the content.

>So come on… put up or shut up… give me a some evidence, not just goofy “I hate FOX” ramblings.

It’s always fun when someone accuses someone for something, when they do the exact same thing themselves.

Jim R says:
October 12, 2009 at 8:50 pm

Matt_Roberts says:
October 12, 2009 at 10:34 pm

Can any of you guys give a single fact or reference point for ANYTHING you just said? Half the stuff you said is blatantly false… and the other half doesn’t make sense or is inconsistent with how you other media outlets are treated. So come on… put up or shut up… give me a some evidence, not just goofy “I hate FOX” ramblings.

PS
Dave… if you’re going to go off the rails, and then insult people who watch FOX, all because of NewsCorps’ owner… at least spell his name correctly! Rupert Murdoch… with an “H” not a “K.” Tough to argue you’re smarter than the rest, when you can’t even spell your subject’s name correctly. Yeesh.

When anyone still believes the Washington Post is liberal, with the largest stable of neocon war cheerleaders of any media staff, a paper recently on the cusp of conducting corporate salons to sell access to their “reporters”, someone’s definitely gone over the edge irretrievably.

obviously a full-time employee.

No seriously… whenever there’s a special where Rupert Murdock wants to convince Americans that

Saddam Hussein has WMD, or that Iran/North Korea is going to attack America tomorrow, or a Hannity

or Beck segment where they want to scare their right-wing audience (even more) there’s always that

ominous music to go along with the story.

It’s like a scary GOP music video.

While Fox News has the highest ratings, it’s also the same group of people that make up just 20% of America’s electorate… the far right-wing of the GOP.

There will always be an audience for the far right and that’s Rupert Murdock’s Fox News demographic.

Rupert keeps them frothing at the mouth with manufactured fear and GOP talking-points, phony outrage.

Fox is also a right-wing echo chamber.. notice that when “The Wall Street Journal”, “The Weekly Standard” people are on Fox News there’s never disclosure that these people are all Rupert Murdock employees.

Imagine if MSNBC or CNN did this… I don’t know how Fox News gets way with constantly recycling Rupert Murdock’s employees (sockpuppets) from his various media properties.

There’s harldy a word on the “MSM” about Murdock’s world wide (far right-wing) media empire.

Murdock has a lot of influence, example: all of his various sockpuppets, Hannity, Beck, etc, and all of Murdock’s worldwide media holdings trash global warming, Presidnet Obama and anything else right-wing Rupert Murdock dislikes.

I think that press and especially individual journalists are deathly afraid of Rupert Murdock and what he can do to them professionally.

Rupert Murdock is the new William Randolph Hearst.

Another thing, Sarah Palin, who is a favorite among the Faux News/ Right-wing crowd is getting Rupert Murdock’s wingnut welfare.

Palin’s (Rupert Murdock’s ghostwriter) book publisher is HarperCollins… a wholly owned Rupert Murdock subsidiary, you ‘betcha.

Try doing some research on your own and you can see a pattern with Obama . Read his books… it’s right their
when you see who his mentors are and their political beliefs and what they believe should be done about it.
Look at who he keeps company with and remember what he said “Judge me by the company I keep”. OK, Wright, Ailes, Soros, Acorn, Apollo Alliance, Valarie Jarret, and all Chicago politicians.

Drudge has the best headline of the day: “Obama fails to win the economics nobel….”

FNC is having a lot of fun with this whole story — good for them.

I’m really looking forward to hearing what Charles Krauthammer has to say on Bret’s show tonight.

Oh and, I have noticed that Bret has reverted back to Brit’s old closing: “Fair, Balanced, and Unafraid”! Good for him.