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Old 01-20-2008, 07:26 AM
 
Location: Wahiawa,Hi
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I watched as much as I could stand. Whew! A group of disgruntled former employees, MSNBC ,Media Matters,Public Policy Advocacy,Walter Cronkite for God's sake. What is your point?
For 40 years I was personally fed left wing garbage by such as Cronkite in an attempt to Zombie my allegiance to Kennedy crap, Carter drivel, Shrillery pander.
There is simply no more biased news stations than the alphabet stations. Fifty years of this -it is a wonder that we survived as a conservative country, which is good testimony to the independent ability of Americans to think for themselves and not absorb this leftist drivel.
Good luck with that program dude! I suspect you are a Shrillery or Obama fan? You boys just keepup with putting up straw men and now women. We don't need yu back in power,ever,ever,ever.
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Old 01-20-2008, 07:30 AM
 
Location: Hernando County, FL
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You obviously did not watch the video and see how much control Murdoch has. Not only over the media in this country, but also over much the rest of the world.

And it's not a matter of just "bias". Murdoch's realm is now in the full fledged business of propaganda. And that blitzkrieg of disinformation has effected many people - those I regard as the "simpletons" in this country... many of whom deviate to the whole Fox News soap opera.

And none of the comparisons to the rest of the lamestream media outlets compare. Not anywhere close. Faux News is off the charts.
No, I did not watch a video that is over an hour long that someone made because they have a problem with Murdoch. It was very clear in the first 2 minutes what the video wanted to say.

Do you mean to imply that because Murdoch owns more media outlets he is the only one twisting the news to feed his own needs?
If this is what you are trying to say you are sorely mistaken yet you call others simpletons.

You can look at 2 newspapers from the same city and compare headlines and front page stories and see right away which way they lean. Does the fact that one newspaper has a circulation of 1 million and the other only 100,000 mean that only one is reporting the news from a biased angle?
No, it means that the population of the area is more in line with the thinking of the newspaper with the million circulation.
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Old 01-20-2008, 09:14 AM
 
Location: on a northbound train
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I watched as much as I could stand. Whew! A group of disgruntled former employees, MSNBC ,Media Matters,Public Policy Advocacy,Walter Cronkite for God's sake. What is your point?
For 40 years I was personally fed left wing garbage by such as Cronkite in an attempt to Zombie my allegiance to Kennedy crap, Carter drivel, Shrillery pander.
There is simply no more biased news stations than the alphabet stations. Fifty years of this -it is a wonder that we survived as a conservative country, which is good testimony to the independent ability of Americans to think for themselves and not absorb this leftist drivel.
Good luck with that program dude! I suspect you are a Shrillery or Obama fan? You boys just keepup with putting up straw men and now women. We don't need yu back in power,ever,ever,ever.
Yep... there you go... just because someone sees through the BS that is Faux News... they gotta be one of them dem der "Lefties"!! Ha... go back through some of my posts, you'll see how fond I am of Hilary Clinton or any of the other idiots running for President - aside from Ron Paul.

By the way........BREAKING NEWS FROM FAUX - TERROR ALERT - MAN DETAINED AT AIRPORT!!! STAY TUNED FOR MORE INFO AS IT BECOMES AVAILABLE....



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Old 01-20-2008, 10:32 AM
 
Location: Wahiawa,Hi
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I'm only saying that Fox news is not nearly so right leaning as the alphabet stations are left leaning. Thank goodness there is someone offering a different perspective than the eletist socialist perspective. In a nutshell ,that elestist socialist perspective is public education, socialized medicine, higher taxes, government programs for everyone except the eletist socialist, -so soviet chic.
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Old 01-20-2008, 11:02 AM
 
Location: Old Town Alexandria
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at least elitist socialists can spell. Then again, as more and more illegals stream in, all we hear about on faux news is terrorism, while 5 million cross the border illegally every month. I give up on regular news. Except loudobbs. com
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Old 01-20-2008, 11:06 AM
 
Location: Portland, Maine
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5 million cross monthly???? There would be no one left in South America if that were true.!
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Old 01-20-2008, 12:32 PM
 
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That's possibly true, but it's not my top complaint. My problem is that none of these so-called MSM providers actually covers the news at all. You get nothing but shallow out of any of them. If you rely on these people for your news, you are guaranteed of being seriously under-informed.
This is a point I have tried to make for years. I find it blasphemous that MSM even attempts to pass off this drivel on America cable and TV as news. At the very least its is a low rent form of entertainment at its worst it is social engineering that even Goebbels would have drool over in its ability to influence and guide public opinion.

While there are some remnants of news on PBS and the BBC that are still worth watching, in America these places are often demonized as extreme bias because they are often of contrary opinion to that of anything the US media puts forth.

I turn on the BBC and the leading stories are Iraq, Iran, Kenya, Zimbabwe, Israel, global economics, etc... Events that are shaping the world and are far in contrast to Brittney going off the deep end (as though that is news) Chris Matthews turning the election cycle into football predictions, and the Fox propaganda channel's complete programming that is utterly devoid of any factual news what so ever.

People often ask, is it a top down or bottom up situation that causes American media to present to the public its glossy entertainment and appeal to emotionally based pseudo news babble that is intended for the lowest common denominator. I can say with complete certainty that it is a top down method which is not hard to see if people would choose to think more than they feel when watching the tube.
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Old 01-20-2008, 12:51 PM
 
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For those of you who still watch this network.... check this video out and see what your feeble minds have succumbed to!!

I'm not saying NBCCBSCNNABCMSNBC, etc, etc, (lumped together for a reason)... are the shining examples of TRUE journalism... but this should be an eye opener.... to those of you who need a big bucket of reality splashed in your face.

Enjoy. The truth is always a good thing.

OUTFOXED : Rupert Murdoch's War on Journalism
I looked long and hard to find the "CNN News is TOTAL Trash" thread, please point it out.
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Old 01-20-2008, 12:54 PM
 
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at least elitist socialists can spell. Then again, as more and more illegals stream in, all we hear about on faux news is terrorism, while 5 million cross the border illegally every month. I give up on regular news. Except loudobbs. com
Wow, 5 million a month? I did the math, that means that there is 480,000,000 illegals here in the time that Bush has been elected, more illegals then are living here.. Why isnt this thread in spanish?

(btw, if I recall the total estimates are 20 million TOTAL here, not 5 million a month)
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Old 01-20-2008, 02:47 PM
 
Location: Wahiawa,Hi
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The concept of lowest common denominator is a matter of opinion. Sounds so...- down the nose, so...- soviet socialist chic.
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