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Why Don't Honest Journalists Take on Roger Ailes and Fo... - 3/13/2010 1:17:43 PM   
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Journalists, like democrats, have lost their spine. When the Fairness Doctrine was repealed, journalism was doomed.


Why Don't Honest Journalists Take on Roger Ailes and Fox News? - washingtonpost.com

One question has tugged at my professional conscience throughout the year-long congressional debate over health-care reform, and it has nothing to do with the public option, portability or medical malpractice. It is this: Why haven't America's old-school news organizations blown the whistle on Roger Ailes, chief of Fox News, for using the network to conduct a propaganda campaign against the Obama administration -- a campaign without precedent in our modern political history?

Through clever use of the Fox News Channel and its cadre of raucous commentators, Ailes has overturned standards of fairness and objectivity that have guided American print and broadcast journalists since World War II. Yet, many members of my profession seem to stand by in silence as Ailes tears up the rulebook that served this country well as we covered the major stories of the past three generations, from the civil rights revolution to Watergate to the Wall Street scandals. This is not a liberal-versus-conservative issue. It is a matter of Fox turning reality on its head with, among other tactics, its endless repetition of its uber-lie: "The American people do not want health-care reform."

Fox repeats this as gospel. But as a matter of historical context, usually in short supply on Fox News, this assertion ranks somewhere between debatable and untrue.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/03/11/AR2010031102523.html
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RE: Why Don't Honest Journalists Take on Roger Ailes an... - 3/13/2010 2:00:10 PM   
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CAUTION : You are entering the no spin zone ..

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RE: Why Don't Honest Journalists Take on Roger Ailes an... - 3/13/2010 6:48:40 PM   
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One only has to look at those who criticized the war and they lost their jobs. There really are no investigative journalists now.

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RE: Why Don't Honest Journalists Take on Roger Ailes an... - 3/14/2010 5:28:11 AM   
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"It is a matter of Fox turning reality on its head with, among other tactics, its endless repetition of its uber-lie: "The American people do not want health-care reform.""

When a guy uses a lie as a foundation of his argument, it saves me from reading the rest.
I listen to an average of 3 hours of Fox a night. O'Reilly, Sean, and Greta all proclaim repeatedly that: "Americans want healthcare reform" and segue into some form of: "They just don't want this healthcare reform", a fact borne out by mainstream pollsters such as Rasmussen and Gallup, and now also proven by Dem pollsters such as Pat Caddel (sic?) and Carville.

This monstrosity is either a dead horse, or the main issue for the next two election cycles (the buttons and rallying cry of the winning party will simply be: "Repeal" or maybe: "It's the repeal, stupid"), and/or a fast-tracked Constitutional "veto" if "passed" by the aptly named Slaughter Resolution.
And that's assuming the unlikely circumstance of substantial economic recovery, deficit reduction, etc.

Eschew the koolaid, smell the coffee. Your party, and your Party, are both smelling like three-day-dead fish.

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RE: Why Don't Honest Journalists Take on Roger Ailes an... - 3/14/2010 5:56:53 AM   
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I listen to an average of 3 hours of Fox a night.

Theres ya problem right there!!!
and we are sposed to take you seriously .....why?


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RE: Why Don't Honest Journalists Take on Roger Ailes an... - 3/14/2010 7:16:58 AM   
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What that means, Lucy, at a minimum, is that I don't have to take the word of others regarding what they actually say.

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