Another man's opinion of Fox v. Obama
This is the second letter you printed from David Handler attempt to picture FOX News as a legitimate news organization. Recently I wrote a couple of responses and never emailed them but it appears that the time has come. I for one am delighted that President Obama has challenged FOX News.
This after CNN showed FOX News faking crowd response.
Fox is at it again. The president has it right. Fox is not a news network. They are a propaganda machine. Why would the President reward FOX for a combination of continued snubs and made up news stories? Fox doesn’t allow their listeners the opportunity to judge the merits of important issues like healthcare reform for themselves. Instead they help stage phony anti-healthcare reform media events then cover them as news. Did anyone notice the CNN report of Fox’s so called anti-healthcare event recently where a Fox producer choreographed crowd noise then cut to their reporter who reported it as news?
The biggest joke in TV news history is Fox calling itself fair and balanced.
This one is my response to Handler’s earlier support of FOX News: Someone must take issue with David Handler’s statement that Fox News is unbiased. There has never been a less biased TV opinion organization than FOX News. It is sad that a person who seems to be able to write a letter with no grammatical errors is fooled by outright lies and right wing talking points projected on FOX as news. Either that or he has deliberately contacted your blog as part of an attempt to plant false information. Both scenarios are dangerous. I’m not sure which is worse.
Bottom line… He is dead wrong on every count. He is attempting to demonize every legitimate news source by utilizing the big lie in an attempt to make Fox News appear believable. (Check out the Youtube story below about their recently faked news story). We all need to be vigilant in protecting press freedom. It starts with challenging demagoguery whenever and wherever it is encountered.
Don Surath
Media Consultant
Related report on this issue of Obama vs Media
Obama’s team, The Chicago Destroyers
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And as Jon Stewart so perfectly pointed out, Fox couldn't be bothered to send a reporter or camera crew to the equally large LGBT demo in DC a few weeks later (they used a clip from ABC news to illustrate their oh-so-brief report on it) yet they did send a reporter/crew to cover an empty lawn where some small Tea Baggers protest had happened earlier.
The biggest beef a lot of us have with Fox is their bald-faced lie to being "fair and balanced" when they are anything but. If they would just admit what they're about and stop the pretense, all would be fine. CBN News is very upfront about their Christian perspective and no one has an issue with them.
People and networks are entitled to have opinions and biases, but they should fess up to them and get on with it.
Caution to all that drink either sides cool-aid when it comes to coverage, because sooner or later this administration may bear down on all media outlets, regardless if you are not Fox and an Obama groupie like CBS, NBC, ABC along with the cable TV CNN, MSNBC etc, etc.
Debating the issues is what the press does. Check the history books that were written 30-years ago before the bias.
After this, he'll get as many calls from the media as I'll get from the White House.
Ayles has been extremely successful in creating what matters most to his employer - ratings which translate into revenue. It has been clear for some time that far right radio personalities are much more popular than personalities to the left. Ayles has leverged that into TV.
It makes money but it certainly is not good journalism.
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