"Socialist Hippie Executed"

[kpete]

Last edited Mon May 7, 2012, 06:58 PM - Edit history (1)

FOX NEWS: Murdoch’s most toxic legacy — My complaint is that Fox pretends very hard to be something it is not, and in the process contributes to the corrosive cynicism that has polarized our public discourse. I doubt that people at Fox News really believe their programming is “fair and balanced” — that’s just a slogan for the suckers — but they probably are convinced that what they have created is the conservative counterweight to a media elite long marinated in liberal bias. They believe that they are doing exactly what other serious news organizations do; they just do it for an audience that had been left out before Fox came along....

In the digital era of do-it-yourself news consumption, it is easier than ever to assemble an information diet that simply confirms your prejudices. Traditional news organizations, for all their shortcomings, see it as their mission to provide — and test — the information you need to form intelligent opinions. We aim to challenge lazy assumptions. Fox panders to them. — Bill Keller

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/06/opinion/sunday/keller-murdochs-pride-is-americas-poison.html?_r=1

[peace frog]

1. I heard he drove the money lenders out of the temple! Horrors!

Good thing the dirty commie scum got what he deserved. Think of the jobs that would have been lost when he attacked those innocent job creators!

[HappyMe]

2. k&r

[lastlib]

3. And free health care for the poor, food for the...

...shiftless hungry--definitely a commie soshulist librul who needed to hang! Oh, and that "rendering unto caesar" bit--more commie statist claptrap! And I bet he never saw a defense budget cut he didn't like! Hope they hung him from a cross and buried him in a cave!

[Uncle Joe]

4. Kicked and recommended.

Thanks for the thread, kpete.

[ErikJ]

5. GOP TV

Roger Ailes first pitched the idea for "GOP TV" to Nixon in 72. Ailes finally convinced News Corp to do it in 1995.

[Scuba]

6. What Dorothy said...

“The heaviest restriction upon the freedom of public opinion is not the official censorship of a press, but the unofficial censorship by a press which exists not so much to express opinion as to manufacture it.”

Dorothy L. Sayers
1893-1957

British writer, essayist, playwright and translator.

[Blue_Tires]

7. kick