Tuesday, February 10, 2009

Brought to You By GOP Talking Points

I don't ever want to hear how Faux News is "fair and balanced" and independent. As Media Matters points out about a recent edition of Fox News' Happening Now:

In purporting to "take a look back" at how the economic recovery plan "grew, and grew, and grew," Fox News' Jon Scott referenced seven dates, as on-screen graphics cited various news sources from those time periods -- all of which came directly from a Senate Republican Communications Center press release. A Fox News on-screen graphic even reproduced a typo contained in the Republican press release.
I'll nver buy into the conservative spiel that the mainstram media has a liberal slant, especially the way its hitting Obama (well maybe, it is more intelligent) -- if there were such a slant, it's unintentional. Unlike Faux News which makes no effort at all to disguise its bias.

4 comments:

  1. Yah--and Stephanopoulos' daily chit-chat with Emanuel is just "old pals talking."

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  2. Not the same, daddio. I'd compare Pat Buchanon to Stephanopoulus perhaps, but not an entire network geared to misinformation.

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  3. You mean MSNBC or NBC in general? Nah. Can't be. Media Matters? Now there's an un-biased group.

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  4. Media Matters has never claimed to be. Their mission is to expose conservative misinformation. They're very honest and upfront about it.

    Big difference, Bill.

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