Former Fox News Reporter Tells All

[celtics23]

From: www.davidpakman.com

[longship]

1. Looks like Shuster. Sorry, no BW for video.

R&K

[Delphinus]

2. Glad to have

it verified from someone in the know.

[SunSeeker]

3. David Shuster confirms what is painfully obvious. Fox News is a GOP propaganda machine. nt

[gateley]

4. I really think MSNBC made a mistake getting rid of Shuster. I wish they'd bring him back.

And this is the second clip I've seen of David Pakman --he's good. I'll check him out. Thanks for posting!

[dpakman91]

6. thanks!

Appreciate the support from DU, and we have some great paid members that are DU regulars, glad to have everyone's thoughts as always.

[Cha]

8. It was a Good interview.. thanks,

dpakman!

[maddiemom]

10. Keep on doing what you're doing, Dave& CO!

[gateley]

19. You really ARE very good, you know.

[freshwest]

20. We'd love to see more of you. Clearest interviews ever. Thanks.

[6502]

22. [Hi, Packman]=> Way to go missing the slow ball...

The fellow you were interviewing said something there were shenanigans in Florida and that "both sides were doing it".

That was a perfect opportunity to follow up and ask the your "guest" to clarify and quantify what he meant when he said it.

Why didn't you do the simple follow-up?
That was a false equivalence slow pitch and you didn't swing it.

I mean, he essentially did something like saying,

"Yeah, there was lots of meat and fish at the banquette and both the vegetarians and non-vegetarians were eating meat."

Now, anybody who just read what I wrote immediately would say something like:

Why that doesn't make sense. The vegetarians I know that would even eat meat at a banquetee usually would have done so by total accident.

You see how I did that?
That's "false equivalence".
And I didn't just slow-ball it...
I walked this one right up to the batter.

And with nobody to call me on it, I just made it seem like there was a even split of vegetarians and omnivores eating meat at the banquette.

I hope to see you (heck, or anybody) actually hold people accountable for false equivalence crap.

Recently, I've heard stories that Soledad O'Brien, the lady on CNN, has been grabbing false-equivalence and weasel-words types by the throat and throttling them on air.

That takes guts.

At least call them out on "false equivalence" stuff.
And be merciless.

[Mortos]

16. David Pakman has an excellent free podcast

I listen to him and my pretend girlfriend, Rachel Maddow, on the free Stitcher app. His show is really good, very calm and measured delivery.

[gateley]

18. I've really enjoyed him when someone has posted a clip. Just subscribed

to his mailing list. I'll definitely check him out on the podcast!!

[freshwest]

21. I didn't know that. I've subscribed to StevenLeser's as well.

[gateley]

23. Thanks -- I'll check him out, too!

[freshwest]

24. Yep, just listened to DP's latests and SL's with Ida Briggs.

[tnlurker]

5. I'll watch this later

[Cha]

7. Oh Wow.. I enjoyed that.. hearing from

David Shuster.. been awhile. Thanks celtics.

Yeah, he has it exactly right.. the difference between faux and msnbc is REALITY. As in msnbc is mostly dealing in reality and faux?.. Never.

I hadn't had a tv for a long time before getting one back in 1999. So, I checked out fox as a new adventure in "news" and it took me about 2 weeks to see what they were doing to Al Gore.. and, I banned them forever. Now look how far they've gone down the drain.

I don't even have a tv anymore.. love my laptop.

[PatSeg]

13. Also

there are a lot of conservative voices on MSNBC. Morning Joe is more conservative than liberal most of the time.

[calimary]

9. Shuster's not at Current anymore?

I lost track after Olbermann left there, and I haven't been paying much attention since then.

[Grassy Knoll]

11. He's on the radio in some places.....

and will do guest spots for Bill Press and Stephanie Miller on Current.

[another_liberal]

12. It's ,"Catching up . . ."

The strategy of pushing a Right Wing agenda is, "Catching up with Fox News."

I would have said they are finally drowning in their own B.S. Before long, perhaps, Roger Ailes will be writing a tell-all book about his relationship with the Murdochs. (I'll buy it!)

[mountain grammy]

14. That was an excellent interview, great information.

After the earthquake and tsunami in Japan, I turned on Shep Smith every day at 5. His newscasts were the best. Smith is the only one on Fox I can stand to watch, his coverage of the inauguration was good too.

[pacalo]

15. Fixed News' viewers are tuning out due to the credibility gap & the lower ratings

indicate a longer-term shift. People want accurate information regardless of their pre-existing political views.



Good interview.

[valerief]

17. Thanks. Good clip. nt