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Fred Sanders

(23,946 posts)
Fri Feb 20, 2015, 12:28 PM Feb 2015

If you can't TRUST a news anchor or commentator then you are not going to watch that person.



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Here's hoping this is finally the beginning of the end of Fox evil.

Trust is the issue. More folks trust Obama, and increasingly so, because he has never given anyone any reason to mistrust him, he is surely the most honest President to ever live. You will know that if you see AND listen to him, and not through the self serving media filters and sound bites used by the now ridicioulously untrustworthy media - a media that has childishy resorted to whining about how
Obama ignores them...only a fool would not.

Fire one talking head and replace with another and all trust is restored?

If wishes were horses and trusted news anchors astride them with RPG's...maybe.

Geopolitical forces leading to some contradictions, like flying to briefly fete a dead Saudi King, is not lying, it is the sad reality among many sad realities that all American Presidents must obey, at least until the full truth is admitted about American Hypocrisy.

Please do not hold your breath on that one.

Not near as sad as Bilbo and Fox, that is a whole other level of sad.

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Man from Pickens

(1,713 posts)
1. Conan O'Brien proved you can't trust ANY corporate news source
Fri Feb 20, 2015, 01:23 PM
Feb 2015

they're always reading from a script prepared for them - check out the "Newscasters Agree" series he put out. Here's one of them:



Fumesucker

(45,851 posts)
2. Fox's core audience won't believe it if they don't hear it on Fox
Fri Feb 20, 2015, 01:27 PM
Feb 2015

I'm not sure it will change their numbers all that much, driving away advertisers is a more effective course.

Fred Sanders

(23,946 posts)
3. CNN is picking it up......get the popcorn...as much as detest their slanted ant-Obama reporting,
Fri Feb 20, 2015, 04:11 PM
Feb 2015

much is forgiven if they go after Fox.

Edit: Never mind, they are trying to minimize Bilbo's lies...as they did Guilliani's lies.

malaise

(269,022 posts)
4. They should all be fired
Fri Feb 20, 2015, 04:17 PM
Feb 2015

hacks, fake anchors, insider guests and producers - they all lie and they all accept lies from the government and its intelligence agencies.

Fred Sanders

(23,946 posts)
6. I think they all know that if they do not defend Fox they will all have to be fired for lying.
Fri Feb 20, 2015, 04:20 PM
Feb 2015

Imagine wall to wall "ISIS will kill us all", yet avoiding all mention of the GOP holding Homeland Security funding hostage......the hypocritical obviousness is just too much.

My hope is more journalists will dig up more lies...drip, drip, drip, like what happened to Williams...Bilbo has a closet full of lies to rummage through.

David Corn is not done with this...more lies exposure to come, I know it.

malaise

(269,022 posts)
7. Why do other free to air or cable stations
Fri Feb 20, 2015, 04:33 PM
Feb 2015

repeat Fox shite with such regularity - why are those lying ReTHUG hacks given such importance. Does Fox quote Rachel Maddow? Does anyone repeat the shite Blitzer spews anywhere else?

It is the RW producers on all stations - working for their corporate masters who spread Fox racist poison ad nauseum.

Fred Sanders

(23,946 posts)
10. Absolutely. Every time Democrats speak about policy it is totally ignored..media only covers the trolling Republicans...
Fri Feb 20, 2015, 04:37 PM
Feb 2015

So Democrats are always playing defence on the trollers' playing field.

Cable news is cable trolling...then it all makes sense.

 

Tierra_y_Libertad

(50,414 posts)
5. In a democracy we're not supposed to "trust" the media or politicians.
Fri Feb 20, 2015, 04:18 PM
Feb 2015

We're supposed to think for ourselves and be skeptical.

The shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same. Marie Beyle (Stendahl)


 

Bluenorthwest

(45,319 posts)
11. He's not a 'News Anchor Man' even by his own description, he's a commentator, a pundit and his
Fri Feb 20, 2015, 04:57 PM
Feb 2015

show draws a paltry audience of aging malcontent conservatives. FoxNews is a niche market, just like the rest of cable. Virtually no one watches and that's enough for them.
I think acting as if their small niche viewership is significant serves them, as does calling some gas bag pundit a 'News Anchor'.
If anything, the insignificant viewership at FoxNews proves that even most Republicans can't stand that shit.
But cable news is not very popular at all, cable commentary is very unpopular. People just don't care for it.

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