Originally Posted By Kar2oonMan >>and my favorite "europe is laughing at us"<< LOL! Would that be the same Europe he regularly mocks and dismisses, or a different Europe?
Originally Posted By oc_dean Oh I'm not falling for ANY excuse from this heavily biased Republican news organization! I'm sure it killed them they had to (eventually) connect this story to a senator in their party.
Originally Posted By friendofdd Dean, I'm not defending Fox, but I would like to know which source you are using to say that their news is "heavily biased Rebublican". I see that in their opinion programs, but not in their news.
Originally Posted By RoadTrip <<An email sent to Jim Romenesko's for posting on the message board of the journalism training center, The Poynter Institute by former Fox News producer, Charlie Reina, explained how bias permeates the Fox newsroom. "The roots of Fox News Channel's day-to-day on-air bias are actual and direct. They come in the form of an executive memo distributed electronically each morning, addressing what stories will be covered and, often, suggesting how they should be covered. To the newsroom personnel responsible for the channel's daytime programming, The Memo is the bible. If, on any given day, you notice that the Fox anchors seem to be trying to drive a particular point home, you can bet The Memo is behind it," he wrote. "The Memo was born with the Bush administration, early in 2001, and, intentionally or not, has ensured that the administration's point of view consistently comes across on FNC. This year, of course, the war in Iraq became a constant subject of The Memo. But along with the obvious - information on who is where and what they'll be covering - there have been subtle hints as to the tone of the anchors' copy," he wrote.>> Source: <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Fox_News" target="_blank">http://www.sourcewatch.org/ind ex.php?title=Fox_News</a>
Originally Posted By DAR Okay so Fox called Foley a Democrat and CNN placed an X over Cheney. And I'm supposed to care because????
Originally Posted By friendofdd Your opinion, DAR, combined with that of the other LP posters will result in creating world peace. And there is a chance one of us will get to wear a tiara.
Originally Posted By ecdc "and my favorite "europe is laughing at us" - he actually said this." OMG! Now that's the funniest thing I've heard in a long time. A conservative worrying about what Europe thinks about us because of our moral hangups. I can't even count how many different ways that's ironic! I wonder how concerned Rush was about Europe laughing at us during the whole Lewinsky saga.
Originally Posted By DlandDug I have no argument that Fox leans heavily conservative and Republican. I cannot imagine that anyone believes that they would intentionally mislabel a high profile politician in a story like this. What-- they would craftily assume that everyone watching would automatically decide that Foley really was a Democrat? On the basis of a superimposed title on a news broadcast? As mentioned before, the AP also mislabeled Foley. <a href="http://www.mediainfo.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003221594" target="_blank">http://www.mediainfo.com/eandp /news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003221594</a> Anyone here going to rush in and proclaim the AP a mouthpiece of the GOP? What we have here is sloppy journalism, combined (in Fox's case) with a rapid news cycle that allows errors to pop up and even persist. But errors do get corrected. If anyone over at Fox was still claiming Foley was a Dem-- then there'd be room to give this more than a passing glance.
Originally Posted By vbdad55 <Okay so Fox called Foley a Democrat and CNN placed an X over Cheney. And I'm supposed to care because????< you're not in my opinion - what a non issue. The lack of journalistic competence, coupled with small staff, and a general lack of ability to use the English language appears in print, television and on radio. How many signs do you pass that nothing is spelled correctly. I can't tell you how many city names are spelled wrong on weather maps on TV. Many newpapers have become 'challenges' for proof readers. Anything that cannot be caught by spellcheck goes, and is some cases I do not believe spell check is used. Is it 'possible' some air headed intern decided it would be funny and did it, sure. But my guess is more likely causes by incompetence than any political subterfuge.
