Now that the White House has a former Fox News anchor as its spokesman, its official message apparently is that it watches CNN, too. In the wake of a photographer having been told that Air Force One’s TV could not be changed from Fox to CNN and the leak of a hotel checklist for Vice President Dick Cheney mandating his TV be tuned to Fox News, Snow told the press corps last week that staffers had been watching the hearing for CIA director nominee Michael Hayden on CNN. “There is no official channel at the White House,” Snow told The New York Times.
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I wonder why it is such a big deal?
Have you seen where all the Clinton White house staffers have gone?
Lets look at all the positions in the other network news outlets filled with democrats…
Lessee…Tim Russert: former staffer for Dem Senator, Steffie: Bubba’s top guy…well that’s 2 of the big 3 influential Sunday shows as mouthpieces of the Dem party. Fox has a ways to go to catch up (but that topic won’t make the blog!).
Why all the flap? Is someone suggesting that the White House gets all its news from one network? Are people suggesting that the entire intelligence gathering process has been shut down and the only source of news is one broadcast network?
Granted, the NSA has been pilloried lately, but not because it has quit gathering information.
Talk about a non-story.
All networks report the exact same news. Fox is just more popular. Also, the commentators are more popular too.
CABLE NEWS RACEMON., MAY 22, 2006VIEWERS
FNC O’REILLY 2,105,000FNC HANNITY/COLMES 1,666,000FNC GRETA 1,494,000FNC HUME 1,341,000FNC SHEP SMITH 1,215,000CNN KING 885,000CNN DOBBS 702,000CNN BLITZER 592,000CNN COOPER 590,000CNN ZAHN 527,000CNNHN GRACE 487,000MSNBC HARDBALL 471,000MSNBC OLBERMANN 406,000
Telling.
Tony Snow trying to make the White House look fair and balanced.
Everyone KNOWS Fox “news” network is nothing but the cartoon channel for Republicans and the shill for this corrurpt administration.Whoosh….bush is great!….whoosh…..fanfare…whoosh whooosh flag graphics….whoosh whoosh
Lamentable isn’t it Joe WIlliams. That such an important thing as our news comes down to popularity.
Lots of things are popular. Nascar, American Idol, talk radio, stupidity. Doesn’t make them good things.
Sigh…….someday America will grow up.
Sadly, JR, the ‘news’ is not about news. It is about whatever sells advertising. Whether it is a local newspaper or national network, the only driving principle is what will sell advertising.
“Responsible journalism” is a joke. It is all about advertising.
When I look at CNN and see top headline news like “Did Ashley Simpson Have a Nose job?” or “Idol Sends Another Contestant Home”, I have to wonder. Why on Earth is that stuff so important.. but like raptor said… it sells newspapers. Remember when that stuff was mainly found in the Enquirer?
A tiny bit off topic, but some lite reading from Cato institute
http://cato.org/pubs/wtpapers/powersurge_healy_lynch.pdf
The Cato Institute has published a report, Power Surge: The Constitutional Record of George W. Bush. You can read it online or they will mail you a free copy. It addresses everything from the torture memos to searches and seizures, from wiretapping to habeas corpus.Here’s the conclusion:…. far from defending the Constitution, President Bush has repeatedly sought to strip out the limits the document places on federal power. In its official legal briefs and public actions, the Bush administration has advanced a view of federal power that is astonishingly broad, a view that includesa federal government empowered to regulate core political speech–and restrict it greatly when it counts the most: in the days before a federal election;a president who cannot be restrained, through validly enacted statutes, from pursuing any tactic he believes to be effective in the war on terror;a president who has the inherent constitutional authority to designate American citizens suspected of terrorist activity as “enemy combatants,” strip them of any constitutional protection, and lock them up without charges for the duration of the war on terror– in other words, perhaps forever; anda federal government with the power to supervise virtually every aspect of American life, from kindergarten, to marriage, to the grave…..On the campaign trail in 2000, then-governor Bush typically ended his stump speech with a dramatic flourish: he pantomimed the oath of office. But the oath is more than a political gimmick; for the founding generation it was a solemn pledge, designed to bind the officeholder to the country and the Constitution he serves. Throughout his tenure, President Bush has repeatedly dishonored that pledge. Andbecause of that, he has weakened the constitutional order on which the American way of life depends
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Both of the above are made up, but probably not too far off. Which is a better source of news? Well, clearly, the WE Blog.
If you believe this, please contact me ASAP for the purchase of some excellent swampland.
sorry DD I was looking for oceanfront propery in Arizona. Call me when you get some.;)lol
My eyes are getting blurry from reading the rest of that report. But at least some of it should have gone into the Gitmo thread.I am glad that Bush is with the government so I can trust him!
What was that saying that keeps popping up….Oh yeah IMPEACH THE MOTHER FUCKER! But he can ignore that law too!
Intellectual consistency check: If CNN, ABC, NBC, CBS and NPR were kicking Fox’s butt in the ratings, how many of you libs would be making this same argument?Thought so.Next!
Intellect check? Yours bounced. Blow away blowjoe.
I only bemoan the fact that America is a land where whoosh noises and jingoism are prostitued as news to an American public too stupid to know the difference or care.
But you go watch O’Reilly tell people to shut up and colmes act at being a liberal.
The grownups will deal with the fact that in addition to all the other evils the bush administration has brought us, we now effectively have a ministry of media.
Ya know, I find myself flipping back and forth between the major news outlets (CNN, FOX, CNBC, the networks, etc.) regularly. Usually to avoid the Hollywood crap, the sensationalist Aruba-girl missing crap, and the other crap which passes as news today.
Frankly, though their emphasis may be slightly different, I can’t find a whiff’s worth of substantive difference between them. They are alike in the only thing that matters: It is about ratings, and selling advertising. It’s generally not about a political agenda, or even news. It’s about dollars.
Once again, the problem is us. We viewers. The media gives us what we want to watch, and we eat it up. Then we complain about how they are not “responsible.”
Media ministry? Gov’t has always manipulated the media. That’s not new; it dates to at least FDR, if not before. And the media is complicit in it, and always has been. The White House uses reporters, and reporters let themselves be used in order to gain access. Both sides use the other for their own ends. Thus it has always been.
There’s nothing truly new under the sun.
My $.02:It would probably freak some ou you out if I told you I get along better with the folks at Fox News Channel than I do the ones at CNN.I don’t think there’s a liberal or a conservative way to do news. It’s like Bob Schieffer said in a speech last week: “Find out what happened”.Granted, Fox does a lot more opinion than the other networks (and MSNBC is moving up the backstretch in that area).And locally, I get a lot of criticism (99% of if from people who don’t watch) for doing a talk show and doing news.But my take is this:a) How in the hell are you supposed to know what you’re talking about and NOT have an opinion about it?b) Intelligent people, whether they agree with me or not, know the difference between facts and opinions. If I try to inject opinion in my newscasts, my viewers would (and have been) all over me about it.Bill O’Reilly is a gassbag I don’t agree with. But his crap in no way denegrates the work of professional newsmen at Fox News like Jon Scott.
JR,
Do you have any specific examples of how Fox News is as conservative and bad as you say?
So far I see talk, talk, talk. An example would be nice.
Tony Snow, what a freaking joke! rotflmrfao
viva la revolucion Blanco!!!
I do not much watch Fox news. I have it blocked on my cable and have to unlock it to go there.
I DO go there. It is important to know what is being used to delude people into voting stupidly.
My own favorite Fox bias example?
“BUSH UP IN POLLS!!!” as a half header on the screen.
Not “Bush up in polls.” THAT would be objective.
BUSH UP IN POLLS!!!
I cannot post links. A better definition and proof of the bias of Fox “news” can be found at the website of the FAIR foundation. (FAIR = Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting)