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Thanks for Fox News.......

A note to Free Republic..........

We should give thanks for Fox News……….10 years old.

There was a start our own TV station thread….. Some for and some against. From that thought of making some expensive positive action there came the thought of a cheap and readily accomplishable effort. Here is an on line Freep, something positive that is free and everyone can lend a hand and a few thoughts..

It has been ten years since Fox News came on the scene. As one who has followed one of the favorite sports on Free Republic namely Main Stream Media bashing, it seems appropriate to look back at the change Fox News has brought. To have a thread that gives one and all the opportunity to praise or bash the folks at Fox News. As the conservative core of their audience, our views should be important be they praise or criticism.

It is now fashionable among some to bash Fox. This bashing seems to come from a few who insist on their way or the hiway. An intolerant view of all thought that is in the slightest way a variance from that of the poster is posted as criticism. There is also much praise and over time the praise probably surpasses the criticism. Years ago we applauded loudly the birth of the MSM antithesis. That feeling of goodness when we could feel the breeze of media change is now a full blown gale as the other MSM is struggling to find the way. Fox News remains the only viable hope for conservative news watchers in spite of the bashing by those who insist on seeing a reflection of their narrow views.

This thread is for posting opinions on Fox News…. praise or criticism. It will be printed out in total and Fedexed to Roger Ailes. It will in actuality be a Fox News Freep. Good and bad, we can let Mr Ailes know how we condemn or appreciate his efforts over the last ten years.

I will post the thread to activism in hopes it will stay around for a while and coax comments from the depths of many PING lists. A few hundred posts will be good, but an all-out big time rousing 1,000 post discussion will be great.

We should include the various personalities. A Fox Babe discussion is mandatory. There might be a similar Hunk discussion as well. We can express our happiness at the removal of Julian Phillips and Rita Cosby. If there is still animosity toward Geraldo, let it out. Shep haters can get their licks in……. if they give a good reason for the disdain. Shep makes me sick won’t get it. Because a good reason must be added.

What were the really great moments…… Brian Kilmeade’s killer impromptu interview with a Bill Clinton drawn mothlike to the TV camera on the post 911 streets of New York. Rita Cosby breathlessly reporting incorrectly from the steps of the Supreme Court that Gore won. Shep’s hardcore disgruntled report from the New Orleans Bridge. The Greg Kelly report as he, live on camera, entered Baghdad with the conquerors. Tell Roger Ailes what you liked or disliked.

Then there are the segments. Fox and Friends is Great. Fox and Friends is too silly for me in the morning. Brit is the greatest but O’rilley sucks. More Cavuto. Less Wesley Clark.

The opportunity to present our views is too great to pass up. Rather than bitch and moan, we can make a real contribution to the movers and shakers at Fox as they toil to increase their ratings. We are the core of their viewer ship. We matter.

Five hundred words……… did I make my point?

Bias in Arab Media?

A reader asked.....

In an effort at "multiculturalism" and under the guise of recognizing 911 and media bias, a student at our school wrote in the school newspapaper that students have "too narrow a view and should go to aljazeera.com and palestine-daily.com to see why other countries hate us and why on 911 2001 people on the other side of the globe were running in the streets of the country in joy becuase the U.S. felt the violence and destruction that plague their countries."

He sites these news media as highly respected and unbiased and that American media is pro-American and pro-Israel with too narrow of views.

Can you help me out with this one?

Can you guide me to instances of aljazeera and palestinian papers being truthful, respected, etc.? I don't think they are, who owns and runs these?

The reply....

I can't comment on the ownership of the papers you cite.

The thing about bias is that it exists to promote a point of view or an agenda. The papers cited are Arab and sell their news to an Arab population wanting something closer to home than the BBC or SkyNews(Fox). They sell a point of view desirable to their local consumers.

I will argue that the writer in your school paper correctly directs readers to other than known and trusted sources. There is a vast difference between knowingly seeking out conflicting viewpoints and swallowing the package they deliver.

We suffer in America from severely biased organizations that are received daily into our homes. Both Reuters and the Associated Press have decidedly antiwar agendas and both provide the American masses in small town papers. Many of these small papers surrender their news gathering ability totally to these wire services. While the internet provides daily feeds m directly from the military command in Iraq, the papers choose to take the events filtered through the biased wire services. Dan Rather taught us that network TV news is totaly unreliable and often out right untruthful. He is no more.

The internet provides far more than a person can absorb, but continuous sampling with in-depth research on specific issues is beneficial. A sampling of the opposition is not a completely bad thing. It must be noted that the recent events in Lebanon were totally managed by Hezbollah. An individual known on the internet as Green Helmet Guy was present at each and every press event. He not only managed the event but actually staged false events. He apparently seeded bomb craters with new furry toys meant to show the deaths of children.

Here is a link: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1681197/posts

Reuters published an unknown but massive quantity of photo shopped pictures.

Here is a link: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1680949/posts

You used the term multiculturism. There is a difference between multiculturism in America and being a citizen of the world. Many today seek American isolation when the exact opposite course is unfolding. To develop a world view, it is necessary to sample thought across a very wide spectrum. To sample and to learn is not to agree.

Thanks for your question

A downsizing to ordinary.......

Lets see, the Old Gray Whore, madam to the New York presstitutes is closing a press and reducing the size of the paper from 54” to 48 “ , I presume that is the roll and the width makes two 23 inch high sheets. That is the size of many smaller papers……. As in small towns, as in fly over country papers. That is something of a come down for the madam who sets the tone for the whole liberal world. She has become careworn and sighhh ORDINARY.

Doing the math, 54-48= 6” and 6/54 x 100=11 % . The OGW is going to need 11% less content. The pundits there are discussing reducing or perhaps squeezing content. The reduction has already taken place. No Squeezing is required.One interesting fact is the reduction in adds. Assuming a 1:1 ratio between the add revenue and columnar space, the reduction correlates well with recent catastrophic declines in ad sales.

The cost problem remains however because there is also a big increase in the cost of the paper. The reduction might cover one of the two, but certainly can’t make up for it all.

That brings up the poor Jersey types who got fired. They are the printers of the blank add space. No ads, no need for paper, no need for printers. Imagine the horror of it all…… I am not required any more because Macy’s quit advertising face cream. I was a nothing, a face cream flack.

Perky Katie and Uncle Walter

The cartoon has layers of meaning, perhaps one can read more than was intended

At first glance there is the comparison with the superficial leftist with the most trusted man in America. Say what you will now about uncle Walter, but the fact is he was the voice America, trusted, and respected. His mane of near white hair provided the illusion of wisdom. His experience as a reporter and war correspondent was yet more reason for respect. One story he told was about the D Day landing. In the confusion he lost his helmet and picked up one he found on the beach. He scurried to safety to get his bearings only to find a host of soldiers hugging his rear. He had donned the helmet of a slain officer and the troopers followed his lead. The bar on the back of the replacement helmet led them to do so.

Now comes his antitheses , Perky Katie. She tries to look young and beautiful. She exudes charm. She grew up trodding the path already deeply furrowed by her predecessors. She may have done some reporting, but mostly she was talk TV. She read some news provided by others and she interviewed people dumb enough or desperate enough to submit to her sugared blather or her vile recriminations. She was an on camera cheer leader, cheering her left wing team on or vigorously defaming her opposition

There are lots of ways to compare the two but it is near certain that no one would follow the Perky one up a beach under fire. The concept is inconceivable. Her-audience will be old folk. They will reject her in total. Her days as a newsie are over before she begins. If she has any success at all it will be as an interviewer. For that to happen, the 6:30 news will be gone from CBS.

The cartoon says something about CBS as well. There is a big empty chair. The empty chair is metaphor for what once was a big news organization. It is now an empty chair. It has lost the best audience and struggles on handicapped like General Motors with an overabundance of old and burnt out employees.

There is also a big empty table. The table has no papers or scripts just a CBS with Katie will have lost the ability to have a real pro convey the news. A shrunken CBS can't handle the Chair or the desk.

CBS Evening News is Gone. CBS evening talk will soon begin.

Cartoon of the year......... The Fox Slut

 

The cartoon getting my vote in the Free Republic Cartoon of the year contest

The news papers have bad bad problems.......

Writing a blog is not difficult. Writing a decent blog requires time and thought.

Recent events have conspired to make the time required to put down some thoughts hard to come by.

Recent events in the newspaper industry indicate that they are having a hard time coping with the realities of the present. They are not dead, but they are severely wounded.

The following is a listing of articles describing the decline and serious problem.

Pittsburg Post gazette and Toledo Blade

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1573105/posts

Chicago Sun Times

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1544906/posts

Boston Globe

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1488509/posts?page=17

General decline multiple papers

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1521252/posts

Dallas Morning News

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1389100/posts

Knight Ridder Papers

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1521692/posts

Knight Ridder

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1568879/posts

LA Times

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1523709/posts

Media Layoffs comprehensive list and discussion

http://www.iwantmedia.com/layoffs.html

New York Times

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1505285/posts

Orlando Sentinel

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1531111/posts?page=1

NY Times downgraded by S&P

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1489164/posts

San Francisco Chronicle

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1538335/posts

Chicago Tribune

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1561172/posts

A failing NYT flails around the truth again

This week it was reported that the New York Times fired 500 staffers following a similar blood bath in May. The New York paper that was formerly known as the Gray Lady but is now commonly referred to as The Old Gray Whore (bordello of the NY Presstitutes) has apparently fallen on hard times in the midst of what in most of America is an economic boom. With low unemployment in much of the country, finding new jobs should not be a real problem.

The impact of the event was largely ignored by an MSM that was on a witch hunt and out gathering post Katrina faggots for the President's bonfire execution. The news was however analyzed by some great observers of the press. A discussion on Free Republic.com concluded that declining ad revenue resulting from declining circulation was the cause. The decline is considered to be the result of a demographic change where the old readers are dying off and the mature young population doesn't read newspapers and thus can't respond to advertiser messages.

Once again the OGW admits to a lying staff. Newsmax reports "New York Times public editor Byron Calame said Alessandra Stanley's Sept. 5 report claiming that the Fox News Channel's Geraldo Rivera "nudged" an Air Force relief worker out of the way so he could film himself rescuing a Katrina victim had been made up out of whole cloth."

Alessandra Stanley's problem is one of status. As a card carrying presstitute writing for the OGW, she doesn't understand what happens on the outside of her Ivory Tower.

Such things as being near or on a real helicopter, actually seeing and smelling the event and touching the persons involved is far from her concept of reality. When reality fails to register, her jelousy towards the unwashed reporters in the field takes hold and her mind compensates with fiction.

Louisiana is out there somewhere in flyover country and matters not to the real Americans residing in the City.

A link to the Black Tuesday article and the blood letting is here

A link to the admission of further lies is here

and a link to the excellant discussion is here

Tim Russert and General Electric deserve damnation.

"Still, Russert continued pressing Chertoff on his fitness for office, saying, "many Americans believe now is the time for accountability." News Max

Today Tim Russert went beyond the pale, beyond the requirement of his masters to get the President by asking Secretary Chertoff for his resignation.

In making the vicious attack Russert committed journalistic malpractice. He is no longer worthy to serve in his position of respected journalist.

Mr Russert has the right of free speech. He does not have the right to attack an excellently functioning government official working hard for Americans when the attack is solely political and get away with it unscathed. Mr Russert has been given his marching orders and like the propagandists working in Nazi Germany for Josef Gobbles, he did what he was told. Mr Russert has no concern for America or for Americans. His sole concern is his own sorry hide and he will do any thing to preserve it, including carrying out terrible orders..

Mr Russert is an employee of the General Electric Company. The American people should take that fact to heart and make General Electric sorry for the disservice it is doing to our great country in time of catastrophic stress. General Electric is persona non grata.

The MSM creates a shill to make it through August

The anti war MSM has found a shill to provide some thing to occupy space and time through the blight of August when nothing happens. The shill is the distraught and many believe disturbed Cindy Sheehan. Her anger at the world that disagrees with her is motivating her into deeper and deeper hot water.

It can be argued that Cindy hates her son Casey. If hate is too strong the perhaps extremely angry is a better descriptive.

Cindy is extremely angry with her son Casey. He disregarded her radical leftwing pacifist rants and joined the Army. He chose to make his will to be a good American soldier superior to her antiAmerica, Antiwar will.

Now he is dead and she can do nothing but rant about it all being someone else's fault. A mother's failure to direct him along the pacifist path, the guilt for the failure and then the guilt for the death are unbearable. Her son was disobedient and rubbed her nose in his disdain.

Her only recourse is to like a three yearold, have a public tantrum. The tantrum is loved by the MSM and is being widely disseminated.

There is no grief at Camp Casey, there is only bitter unresolvable anger.

Democrat Rants, the Associated Press and the hapless Kingsport Times News

Once again the Kingsport Times News is guilty of bias in reporting the news of the week. Once again the paper published in a medium sized Tennessee city ignored the most important political story of the week. The fairpress.org website in it’s Media Bias 101 lessons lists bias by story selection or bias by omission as being equivalent to bias by lie. The question is why would the Times News take such a biased course?

The unhinged rant by Democratic Senator Durbin comparing the prison at Guantanamo with the torture of Nazi concentration camps and Soviet Gulags was deselected by the Times News editors. A story where numerous Republican Senators took to the Senate floor and denounced the Democrat Senator form Illinois, some even calling for censure, was ignored. The story of a Democrat laboring mightily to bring down a President was ignored. The question is why?

Did the editors think their readers did not need to learn the Senator’s rant backfired and that they must shield their left wing agenda from the onslaught of harsh and justified criticism that resulted. Or, did the editors insulated from the world in a medium sized Tennessee city simply not know the events occurred? Since the Times News has only one link to the outside world, the fact that they did not know is a reasonable assumption.

The Times News has only one usable link to the world, the Associated Press wire. A wire is a 19th century expression for a telegraph line. If the AP decides that a story is contrary to it’s agenda of bringing down a President, the story doesn’t make it on the wire. If a story doesn’t propagandize the agenda, it doesn’t exist. Omission is bias. The bias was shown earlier when the AP and the TN failed for many days to report the substance of Dan Rather's attempt to foist fradulent documents as truth. Such is also the case with the Durbin story.

The Times news is slavishly bound to the AP and permits no other sources of news even though more reliable and significantly more truthful. The Times News lives in the 1930’s world of a telegraph wire and telex machine with only one source of national and international news at the other end. Even though there is good TN coverage of the world of computers and of the internet, use by the paper is apparently not editorially permitted. The Times News by relying on a terminally biased AP has degenerated into a purely local news source. The Times News in an unreliable and untruthful source of real news beyond the county line.

The Mighty Dan crawls to Larry King

MRC report on Dan Rather's appearance on Larry KIng live.....

"Dan Rather reiterated to CNN's Larry King on Thursday night that he believes the memos, in his National Guard hit piece on President Bush, were genuine. Rather emphasized how "the documents were part of a fairly wide array of information we had" and were "supported by all kind of things other than the documents"

A favorite propaganda tactic is to tell the big lie and tell it often. If the lie is repeated loud and long it achieves a semblance of truth.

Dan Rather was thrown out of CBS on his butt for telling the big lie. Dan is an old man and can't accept the reality of his irrelevance following the failed big lie. His problem is the often part of the equation. He no longer has a real platform so he was forced to bend his knees and crawl to CNN for an opportunity to repeat the lie. He was forced to go on Larry King. What an embarassing debacle. Dan Rather whining to Larry King tat he was not only truthful but the forged documents were real and only part of a trove of other such support.

Oh how the mighty have fallen.

I wonder if he saved the unvalentines sent by the unlovers at FRee Republic and Operation Valentine?