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ORIGINAL: tazzygirl

Does anyone remember reading about this?

http://www.projectcensored.org/top-stories/articles/11-the-media-can-legally-lie/

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ORIGINAL: TheHeretic

I thought this was going to be a nothing little bit of nothing.  They run something up the flagpole to see who salutes, their own side blows raspberry's at it, people of my outlook toss a few tomatoes, the whole thing gets dropped.  It was a bad idea. 

Instead we get this

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ORIGINAL: rulemylife

Appearing on ABC's "This Week," senior Obama adviser David Axelrod said Fox News shouldn't be treated as a news organization. "And the bigger thing is that other news organizations, like yours, ought not to treat them that way, and we're not going to treat them that way," he said.

Wow.  I mean, WOW!  ...  I'm just a little stunned that an advisor to the President of the United States said something like that on television.  That is one hell of a statement.  The White House suddenly gets authority to decide which major media outlets are legitimate?  That's not a problem?  Give it a sec before searching out that essential "Bush did "this!" response.  They get to define a news organization under WHAT authority, exactly??? 

It isn't just a dangerous escalation with Fox that they've decided to go with either.  A threat could very easily be taken from Axelrod's words about what the other networks ought to do.  Almost a whisper of "with us or against us," towards our fellow Americans.  What happens when those other networks realize that half the country don't hang on President Obama's every word, and decide they don't want to cede half the market to the competition?  Or just decide that No, the President doesn't get to run their newsrooms?  Not to mention that hungry young journalists who want to be the next Woodward and Bernstein get a great big hard-on when threatened?  What the fuck are they thinking in this administration???  With all their unresolved crooked comnections and unvetted appointees?  Do they really want to go there!?!?!?!

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ORIGINAL: ThatDamnedPanda


Yeah, I see all of that pretty much the same way. I'm just shaking my head here, wondering who the fuck is in command of that Titanic. If the administration really feels that it's time to go toe to toe with Faux News, there are 100 ways of going about it - and about 95 of them would be smarter, smoother, more likely to produce a favorable result, and less amateurishly, clumsily self-destructive than this one. This is just dumb. Whose idea was this? Who's managing this issue for the white house? Who's writing these idiotic, Students for a Democratic Society-inspired talking points? Is this Valerie Jarret at work? I'm shocked at the amateurish tactics being employed here. Are there no grownups attending these meetings?

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ORIGINAL: rulemylife

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ORIGINAL: ThatDamnedPanda


Yeah, I see all of that pretty much the same way. I'm just shaking my head here, wondering who the fuck is in command of that Titanic. If the administration really feels that it's time to go toe to toe with Faux News, there are 100 ways of going about it - and about 95 of them would be smarter, smoother, more likely to produce a favorable result, and less amateurishly, clumsily self-destructive than this one. This is just dumb. Whose idea was this? Who's managing this issue for the white house? Who's writing these idiotic, Students for a Democratic Society-inspired talking points? Is this Valerie Jarret at work? I'm shocked at the amateurish tactics being employed here. Are there no grownups attending these meetings?

Myself, I applaud it.

You yourself deride the network as Faux News.

Why shouldn't the White House acknowledge the same?

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ORIGINAL: rulemylife

I would take the opposite opinion.

They need to take on Fox because it has become the conservative flagship.

Now it would be one thing if the network was the fair and balanced news source they claim to be, even with a conservative tilt.

But they openly, consistently, and constantly attack Obama, Democrats, and anything they perceive as liberal with exaggerations, innuendo, and outright fabrications.

This is not a news network, this is the television counterpart to the National Enquirer.

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ORIGINAL: TheHeretic
Kitten, I'm so sorry to say, that your disregard for the freedom of the speech doesn't surprise me at all.  That's a shame.  It's a rare and precious thing.

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ORIGINAL: HatesParisHilton
I can't wait to see what happens after The Mummy Murdoch finally crumbles into dust and the hungrey "King Lear Daughter-esque" corporate heirs to the throne start pulling everything apart like the Skeksis in Dark Crystal.

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Wow. I mean, WOW! ... I'm just a little stunned that an advisor to the President of the United States said something like that on television. That is one hell of a statement. The White House suddenly gets authority to decide which major media outlets are legitimate? That's not a problem? Give it a sec before searching out that essential "Bush did "this!" response. They get to define a news organization under WHAT authority, exactly???  ORIGINAL: TheHeretic

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ORIGINAL: Sanity

Fox News is one of the very few news organizations which isn't openly and gleefully in bed with this administration.

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Obama's punk ass demands that every news reporter and commentator lick his scrotum is childish to the extreme,

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ORIGINAL: Sanity


Obama's punk ass demands that every news reporter and commentator lick his scrotum is childish to the extreme, worse than Nixonian because even Dick Nixon didn't dare go this far, so far as the press is concerned.

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During their appeal, FOX asserted that there are no written rules against distorting news in the media. They argued that, under the First Amendment, broadcasters have the right to lie or deliberately distort news reports on public airwaves. Fox attorneys did not dispute Akre’s claim that they pressured her to broadcast a false story, they simply maintained that it was their right to do so. After the appeal verdict WTVT general manager Bob Linger commented, “It’s vindication for WTVT, and we’re very pleased… It’s the case we’ve been making for two years. She never had a legal claim.”