About the Glee Over Murdoch's Troubles
"Glee" is not just an American TV show, it is also the emotion many people feel and express toward the trouble Rupert Murdoch's News Corp is having, since they consider Murdoch's properties a blight on their formerly pristine media landscape.
There are two strains running through the phone-hacking scandal that monopolizes much of the media attention in the UK. One is the attitude of the mainstream media types who are frustrated by the success of Murdoch properties, most notably Fox News Channel in America (to which I contribute). They see Murdoch's troubles with the now shuttered News of the World tabloid as an opportunity to destroy the Murdoch empire, which they have been unable to do by competing with it.
The second strain is legal. After the apparent suicide of a former News of the World reporter and unprecedented resignations of high-ranking officers at Scotland Yard, whose allegedly paid connections with News of the World are at the center of parliamentary and police inquiries, Labour and Tory politicians are positioning themselves for major political advantage.
U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder confirmed the Justice Department is looking into allegations that employees of News International, a division of News Corp, hacked, or attempted to hack, into the phones of 9/11 victims. Several Democratic members of Congress and Rep. Peter King (R-NY) have called for such an investigation.
The response to this by the British and American mainstream media reeks of hypocrisy. Whatever one thinks of the morality of paying for news stories, the British press, under Labour and Tory governments, have been doing it for years. Fleet Street was built on cash for gossip. American media are slightly more sophisticated in pursuing "exclusive" stories.
There are other forms of "payment" U.S. media make to politicians -- mostly liberals -- with whom they agree. They repeat the talking points of Democrats or refuse to challenge statements that are factually incorrect. They frequently fawn over people they like and challenge those they don't like. Call it a political version of an "in-kind" contribution.
People who broke the law by hacking into phones should be punished, but this is more about liberal attempts to destroy Fox News, which liberals hate because it communicates ideas, issues and opinions that were mostly unavailable, or ignored, until the network launched in 1996. Fox News has not been implicated in the British phone hacking, but that won't stop its enemies from trying to make the connection. MSNBC's Martin Bashir compared Murdoch to Jack Abramoff and mobster James "Whitey" Bulger. There were similar over-the-top comments by other broadcast "journalists."
People can debate Fox's slogan "we report, you decide," but the liberal mantra might more accurately be stated, "we distort, we decide."
The faux "virgins" in big media like to portray themselves as "above" the standards and practices of media owned by Murdoch, but past behavior exposes them as two-faced. Examples: In 2003, the New York Times reported that, "Michael Jackson struck a deal with CBS to be paid in effect an additional $1 million for both an entertainment special ... and his interview on "60 Minutes" ... part of yearlong negotiations." The news magazine denied paying Jackson for the interview, but an associate of Jackson's said at the time the deal included the "60 Minutes" appearance.
According to one of Casey Anthony's attorneys, ABC News paid $200,000 for photos of her dead daughter, Caylee. CBS News got off with a mere $20,000 "licensing fee" paid to Caylee's grandparents.
When hero passenger Jasper Schuringa helped subdue the Christmas Day bomber, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, on a flight to Detroit and later snapped cellphone photos of the suspect being escorted off the plane in wrist restraints, CNN paid Schuringa a "licensing fee" for the images. CBS and ABC reportedly bid for the photos, according to TVNewser.com, ultimately earning Schuringa $18,000.
If tabloids paid British police for information, then that would be a violation of journalistic ethics, if they still exist. American journalists had better look to their own motivations before casting stones at Rupert Murdoch.
Whatever happens in Britain, Fox News will survive and prosper. And that will be a cause for glee to those who dislike reporting that comes from a single ideological worldview.
- Cal Thomas's blog
- Login to post comments
Comments
glee over email hacking.. Hmm.
Submitted by Gary Hall on Fri, 07/22/2011 - 8:09pm.
What gets me, is that the same folks who are experiencing all of this emotional "glee" over Murdoch's woe's -- same as what must be going on to some extent in many news organizations (thinking MSM,here) all over the land -- is that they probably experienced a similar glee when that young man, a Tennessee Democrat legislator's son, hacked into Gov. Palin's email.
Fortunately he was convicted and sentenced; however, I certainly don't recall any rage from our MSM over the horrors of such activity. Something tells me that if the MSM had got their dirty little hands on the results of his efforts, they'd been more than pleased to share it with their audience.
(;~/ gary
Exactly, it's all relative to
Submitted by tcm14 on Fri, 07/22/2011 - 8:58pm.
Exactly, it's all relative to them. When the ClimateGate e-mails came out, the MSM either ignored it or attacked the sources for hacking the e-mails; and yet, when Wikileaks releases info, they praise them and the sources. I'm sure everyone here could provide similar examples in just about every area.
Look, the journalists who hacked private citizens and those who encouraged it are despicable, but all this stuff about investigating Murdoch in other countries is just sour grapes at Murdoch's success, a fishing expedition, and a feeble hail mary attempt to silence Fox News.
Glee
Submitted by grammajane on Fri, 07/22/2011 - 8:10pm.
Glee will be here in 2012.
The press was never this
Submitted by Free Stinker on Fri, 07/22/2011 - 9:03pm.
The press was never this interested in the guy who hacked GOVERNOR Palins' e-mail . . .
/// Sarah Palin Fan since July 11, 2007 /// خال
That is true Free
Submitted by shawn. on Fri, 07/22/2011 - 9:10pm.
However I think that guy was punished. The issue here is if either Murdoch knows more than they are admitting.
Shawn
Submitted by Free Stinker on Fri, 07/22/2011 - 9:19pm.
The issue here is if either Murdoch knows more than they are admitting.
Indeed, however absent any proof or even any evidence that Murdoch was aware, the Make Believe Media shouldn't be salivating as if he were caught in the act.
/// Sarah Palin Fan since July 11, 2007 /// خال
There is no concrete proof
Submitted by shawn. on Fri, 07/22/2011 - 9:39pm.
........however there seems to some discreprency from what the younger Murdoch said and the folks that worked for him
Despite the media bias I am very interested to see how this will fold out.
Fox calls for investigation of Media Matters Tax-exempt status,
Submitted by TexasMom0517 on Fri, 07/22/2011 - 9:17pm.
I don't believe in coincidence.
Fox calls for an investigation into Soros-funded Media Matters' tax-exempt status, then the hacking scandal in Britain goes NUCLEAR- why?
After the Murdochs appearance at the Parliamentary committee, Rupert Murdoch came off pretty well (particularly if you have any concept about how the governance of a multi-national corporation works), so now, the media and M.P.s, like Tom Watson, are going to make every effort to bring down James Murdoch.
The ultimate goal for Liberals, on both sides of the pond, is to bring down News Corp so that the only media outlets are Liberal and so that the only messages that get out are propaganda promoting the Liberal agenda.
witch hunt
Submitted by DumbCanuck on Fri, 07/22/2011 - 9:35pm.
'nuff said.
"There... Are... Four... Lights!"
Why do you say that?
Submitted by shawn. on Fri, 07/22/2011 - 9:46pm.
There has been much evidence of wrongdoing and mass resignations so far. There is proof of hacking and the police commissioner has admitted wrongdoing and resigned
Most witchhunts don't start like this.
shawn
Submitted by well99 on Fri, 07/22/2011 - 10:04pm.
So besides that tabloid which others of his media have they found evidence of hacking and such?
No they have not well
Submitted by shawn. on Fri, 07/22/2011 - 10:14pm.
But two former executives are saying the younger Murdoch is mistaken when he said he was not aware the bad things were not limited to one rogue reporter
There might be no wrong doing at all, but I am interested to see how deep this goes and I don't hate Fox news
FOX hasn't been
Submitted by Bodini on Fri, 07/22/2011 - 10:28pm.
FOX hasn't been shy in their coverage of this story, but can't you imagine the Obama media's silence if this were to happen to one of them!
Fox had a virtual black-out
Submitted by Jer on Fri, 07/22/2011 - 10:48pm.
during the early stages. Apparently, Hannity hasn't mentioned it yet.
Jer
Jer
Submitted by well99 on Sun, 07/24/2011 - 1:48am.
Really.Funny I saw it on Fox and their webpage.No it wasn't the lead story and the Debt Ceiling was but it was there.Since I only watch Fox it is surprising I would even know of it.As far as Hannity I don't think he is a news reporter but a pundit.
Now what I fine odd is this.
http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2010/09/murdoch-phone-hacking/
Look at the date.Sept 2 2010.WTF is going on.
I am not saying Fox has not covered he story
Submitted by shawn. on Fri, 07/22/2011 - 11:10pm.
.......but i have not once saw it as a featured story on Foxnews.com
Nor with the closure
Submitted by Jer on Fri, 07/22/2011 - 10:12pm.
of a 168 year old newspaper accompanied by a humiliating apology admitting breathtaking violations of journalistic standards. Not exactly the stuff of witch hunts.
Jer
Exactly Jer,
Submitted by shawn. on Fri, 07/22/2011 - 10:42pm.
Most witchhunts would not have the accused getting in front of members of parliament saying it was the most humbling day of his life.
Not a witch hunt?
Submitted by bkeyser on Fri, 07/22/2011 - 11:21pm.
Maybe not now but it sure started out that way. The possibility that 9/11 victims were hacked by NewsCorp entities is turning out to be wishful thinking and bad journalism on the part of the Daily Mirror. According to the Washington Post:
Of course you don't hear a lot about this.
I noted th oher day that this would likely turn out to be a Pandora's box -I read something from a British journalist who indicated that the practice wasn't so isolated and that the more the police dig, and the more people talk, the more they'll find.
They found more.
.Here's AFP's report.
ABC Australia noted it too, though I haven't found anything on ABC New York as yet. Nope. Nothing. Hmmm. Nothing at NBC News either. I wonder if CBS noted this development...nope. CNN? Nada. MSNBC? Well, look at that! ... Nah, just kidding. Nothing here either.
Witch hunt. Nah.
[Edit} I stand corrected on CNN- sort of. They have this in-depth analysis on FoxBusiness.com.
BK
Submitted by shawn. on Fri, 07/22/2011 - 11:25pm.
I am not saying every accusasion has merit I am saying that if there was no wrong doing there would not have been an apology in verbal and in print
Most witchhunts don't have this many apologies and resignations as this one and this is only the beginning stages.
shawn
Submitted by bkeyser on Fri, 07/22/2011 - 11:34pm.
I think at issue is the coverage toward NewsCorp because its NewsCorp. Now that other British papers are implicated, as at least one British journalist predicted days ago, we'll need to be watchful for the same scrutiny from the other US major media outlets. As I've noted above, so far, crickets.
So when I speak of a witch hunt relative to this story, I'm talking about media coverage, as I think Cal Thomas is in this blog.
Well BK
Submitted by shawn. on Sat, 07/23/2011 - 12:01am.
It's still early and the relevations so far are extremely interesting. I am facinated by this story like I was the Weiner story. We know how that story ended up
Let us not forget
Submitted by Bodini on Fri, 07/22/2011 - 10:21pm.
Let us not forget the leftist peeping-Tom who moved next door to the Palin family to try and peek over their fence and listen in on their private conversations!
Agreed...pretty offensive
Submitted by Jer on Fri, 07/22/2011 - 10:33pm.
But at least the conduct wasn't concealed.
Jer
1. Contrary to the leftist
Submitted by Jack Bauer on Sat, 07/23/2011 - 9:05am.
1. Contrary to the leftist propaganda -- NewsCorp (News International) is NOT the UK's biggest media empire. That would be the Institutionally Leftist BBC, which is funded by a compulsory TV Poll Tax from everyone with a television. Non payment of the $300 a year can get you banged up in the clink.
The BBC extracts $6 BILLION a year, guaranteed. They are a quasi-monopoly, in the sense they set the news agenda for the chattering classes.
2. Rupert Murdoch SAVED the UK newspaper industry which was on its knees in the 1980s. By breaking the corrupt, insane UNION monopoly on producing newspapers, Murdoch created the conditions which made it possible for ALL types of newspapers to flourish. Left, right and center politically.
As such thousands of people are now employed. Journalists should praise Murdoch for giving so many of them jobs.
By the way, when the NOTW closed over 200 people with families lost their jobs.
THE REAL REASON THE LEFT WANTS TO KILL MURDOCH (at least in the UK) IS THAT HE STOOD UP TO THE PRINTING UNIONS. AND BROKE THEM.
It's that simple.
All of the above Mr Obama? --- How about ALL OF THE BELOW, instead.
Or maybe this is the real Rupert Murdoch:
Submitted by Jer on Sun, 07/24/2011 - 1:45am.
The evil of Rupert Murdoch
By: Roger Simon
July 20, 2011 04:42 AM EDT
I first and last talked to Rupert Murdoch in late 1983 or early 1984, when he bought my newspaper in Chicago.
I say it was “my” newspaper not because I owned it — far greedier people than even me owned it — but because it was my first extended job, and I had come to love it. I was writing four columns a week, my picture was on the side of newspaper trucks and on newspaper boxes. I was paid well. My wife also worked at the Sun-Times, and we were looking for our first house.
And then we heard that Murdoch might buy our paper. Murdoch was well-known in the newspaper industry. He had the same formula for almost all of his newspapers: Stories were to stress sex, violence, crime and racial discord.
Murdoch came to see what would soon be “his” paper — it may have been his first trip to Chicago — and about two dozen employees were summoned to a dinner with him. He was relaxed and easy-going and promised — as he always did when he bought a paper — to retain its quality and integrity.
It was a lie, and we knew it was a lie. But we tried to convince ourselves of its truth for as long as possible. For me, that wasn’t long.
I had a conversation with him about various sections of the paper. “I don’t understand anything about American sport,” he told me breezily, “but I know the coloreds like it.”
I told him that in America we no longer used the word “coloreds,” that it was considered insulting.
He looked at me the way Queen Victoria might have looked at a footman who had told her she was using the wrong fork to eat her pheasant.
The evening went downhill from there. I told others about my conversation with Murdoch. Some were outraged, and others said that maybe Australians just talked that way. (Murdoch later cynically became a U.S. citizen so he could own U.S. television stations.)
Last Thursday, I got an email from a well-known American journalist, who was not at the dinner but still remembers the stories about it. “Murdoch’s current spot of bother in London has me thinking of that tumultuous dinner you enjoyed with him,” the email read. “My recollection is that you [and two other journalists] launched an alcohol-fueled attack on Murdoch. Ah, those were the good old days.”
Maybe I was alcohol-fueled later on in the evening, but I clearly remember telling the top Sun-Times editors at the dinner that if Murdoch didn’t destroy the paper immediately, it would be the slow “death of a thousand cuts” and the result would be the same.
I was told to calm down. The editors had talked to Murdoch at length, and he had given them his personal assurance that the paper’s quality would be maintained. Within a few months, all those editors were gone. They had quit in disgust or had been shown the door. Murdoch imported his own thugs and stooges from Britain to run the place.
“Quality” was just another word for snobbery, they said. It was not what the masses wanted. And those who disagreed were elite and effete.
“Rupert likes a man who [urinates] standing up,” one told me.
I never knew precisely what that meant, but the drift was clear enough. (Though where did that leave women? I always wondered.)
My wife quit the paper immediately, and I hung on until my contract expired. We left the city of our birth and came East. My wife went to The Washington Post, and I went to The Baltimore Sun.
Murdoch later sold the Sun-Times. It was never a big deal to him. It was just a plaything he bought and grew bored with.
And he had other papers. The News of the World, the paper Murdoch was forced to close recently because of a telephone-hacking scandal, claimed to be the largest-selling English language newspaper in the world, with a circulation of 2.7 million in a nation of 50 million.
Murdoch was a huge force in British politics, ruling by fear, intimidation and inducement.
Sarah Lyall of The New York Times wrote last week about Clare Short, a Labour member of Parliament, who once mentioned “in passing that she did not care for the photographs of saucy, topless women that appear every day on Page 3 of the populist tabloid The Sun,” owned by Murdoch.
The Sun attacked swiftly with the headline: “‘Fat, Jealous’ Clare Brands Page 3 Porn.” The paper also sent a busload of “semi-dressed” models to Short’s home to jeer at her and stuck a picture of Short’s head on the body of a topless woman in the paper.
While powerful politicians often privately deplored the behavior of the British tabloids, they were “afraid to say so publicly, for fear of losing the papers’ support or finding themselves the target of their wrath,” the Times article said.
The editor of The Sun at the time of the attack on that “fat, jealous” member of Parliament was Rebekah Wade, now Rebekah Brooks, who has been arrested in the phone-hacking scandal and who testified Tuesday before a parliamentary committee right after Murdoch finished.
Brooks was very, very sorry about the criminal stuff that happened, but she really knew nothing about it. It was the same defense Murdoch had used.
“I was clearly misled,” Murdoch said. “They kept me in the dark.”
Sure they did. Nobody knew nothin’ about nothin’ — nothing about phone-hacking in Britain or of the 9/11 survivors in America, nothing about the bribery of the police or of cozy and lucrative relationships with top government officials.
Their eyes and ears had been closed and now their mouths were, too.
It was a day of see no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil … and evil.
Roger Simon is POLITICO’s chief political columnist.
Jer
Submitted by well99 on Sun, 07/24/2011 - 2:01am.
So did you have anything from Daily Kos or maybe Mother Jones to add to that?
This is asinine. Murdoch
Submitted by Jack Bauer on Sun, 07/24/2011 - 6:25am.
This is asinine. What some devoted left-wing hack claims is neither here nor there. He has a biased agenda.
Murdoch became successful by BUILDING UP just about every newspaper he ever bought.
Do you know that in the UK The Sun was almost out of business when he acquired it 30 years ago? Now it's the world's top selling Tabloid now with a readership of 7 million daily.
I am telling you that the left in Britain HATE Murdoch because he BROKE the corrupt disgusting unions who thought THEY controlled the paper for whom they "worked" but not really.
If you want to counter my fact-based arguments with something other than a Politico hack giving his highly partisan opinion, feel free.
All of the above Mr Obama? --- How about ALL OF THE BELOW, instead.
Jack....
Submitted by Jer on Sun, 07/24/2011 - 5:23pm.
this "highly partisan hack" was also a one-time Murdoch employee recounting his personal experience with the man. If you believe he is making the story up, then so be it. Maybe he's lying through his teeth. But that's his purported first-hand account. Perhaps you can help us out with the accuracy of the details about the lady member of Parliamemt who was allegedly mocked by Murdoch's tabloid. Was that a fable?
BTW, I just heard this morning on Reliable Sources a NYT reporter crediting Murdoch for the survival of much of Britain's print media because of his union-busting success.
Jer
Gee Jer
Submitted by well99 on Sun, 07/24/2011 - 7:45pm.
No bias from Simon
"I first and last talked to Rupert Murdoch in late 1983 or early 1984, when he bought my newspaper in Chicago."
"Murdoch came to see what would soon be “his” paper — it may have been his first trip to Chicago — and about two dozen employees were summoned to a dinner with him. He was relaxed and easy-going and promised — as he always did when he bought a paper — to retain its quality and integrity.
It was a lie, and we knew it was a lie. But we tried to convince ourselves of its truth for as long as possible. For me, that wasn’t long."
I can understand you believing what he said Jer.Obviously a very open minded person.
"My wife quit the paper immediately, and I hung on until my contract expired. We left the city of our birth and came East. My wife went to The Washington Post, and I went to The Baltimore Sun."
Funny they got jobs there.Aren't those conservative papers?Just curious Jer were you going to post something from another non bias source?Maybe Olbermann or Mathews?
well99...let me explain one more time
Submitted by Jer on Sun, 07/24/2011 - 8:16pm.
Simon was a direct witness reporting a first-hand experience. You think he was lying? Well, maybe he was. Olbermann and Matthews are not and were not parties to the incident. Why would I rely of their opinions? Whom do you want to use as a source? Weasel Zippers? Hannity?
If there are those who can and will explicitly refute Simon's version, please cite them and I'll be more than happy to weigh their credibility against Simon's.
Jer
well Jer
Submitted by botg on Sun, 07/24/2011 - 8:27pm.
sounds like Simon's days of lying and debauchery were put to an end and he's on a bitter diatribe
“My recollection is that you [and two other journalists] launched an alcohol-fueled attack on Murdoch. Ah, those were the good old days.”
see he's generalizing the incident as though it's not isolated, "good old dayS"
“The way to stop discrimination on the basis of race is to stop discriminating on the basis of race.” -- Chief Justice John Roberts
Bruce
Submitted by shawn. on Sun, 07/24/2011 - 8:39pm.
Nice to see ya buddy
well Spiderr
Submitted by botg on Sun, 07/24/2011 - 8:42pm.
i got the laptop going NB is too small on the iphone
left you posts at FB
“The way to stop discrimination on the basis of race is to stop discriminating on the basis of race.” -- Chief Justice John Roberts
Hi botg...
Submitted by Jer on Sun, 07/24/2011 - 8:46pm.
Long time, no see. Nice to hear from you.
I'm trying to figure out if the "good ole days" referred to a. back when they were frequently boozing it up, b. regularly slamming Murdoch, or c. they were young up and coming reporters in the 80's--or some combination thereof.
Jer
well Jer
Submitted by botg on Sun, 07/24/2011 - 8:51pm.
evidently Murdock didn't put up with it
have a great Sunday evening, it's BBQ time
;^)
“The way to stop discrimination on the basis of race is to stop discriminating on the basis of race.” -- Chief Justice John Roberts
Jer
Submitted by well99 on Sun, 07/24/2011 - 8:42pm.
Gee I guess maybe I was trying to point out his bias.Yes I think he is a liar.Just because someone says something doesn't make it true.My reference to Olby and Tingles was about your selection of a person who is obviously biased and thought you might need more biased peoples opinion.Not about what Simon said.Seemed like it was pretty obvious.
Oh so Larry Sinclair had sex with Obama.Since he said it then it has to be true.Sinclair was a direct witness reporting a first-hand experience.
well99...
Submitted by Jer on Sun, 07/24/2011 - 8:58pm.
No, it doesn't necessarily mean Sinclair's assertion is true. [Maybe you missed the part where I said Simon may be lying. I believe I've stated that fairly prominently three times now.] But, it DOES mean Sinclair's (and Simon's) reports are more significant and probative than those of someone who says "hey, I read that Larry Sinclair said he had sex with Obama."
Jer
Jer
Submitted by well99 on Sun, 07/24/2011 - 9:03pm.
Well that worked out.You seemed to miss my point that Simon is biased.Yea they were both there but so what.I don't believe either.
If this was General Electric
Submitted by MrOctober7377 on Sat, 07/23/2011 - 10:05am.
If this was General Electric and not New Corp, Fox News would be covering it 24/7 with even more glee than others are doing now.
But! But! You guys do it too!
Submitted by Free Stinker on Sat, 07/23/2011 - 10:21am.
Ri-i-i-i-i-i-i-i-i-i-ight . . . the "they both do it" arguement.
I don't think so.
/// Sarah Palin Fan since July 11, 2007 /// خال
Free I go to Fox News quite a few times during the day
Submitted by shawn. on Sat, 07/23/2011 - 10:40am.
I believe it is much less biased than the other sites. However I have not once seen the Murdoch story on their home page.
This is not a small story. The Prime Minister of England is even weighing in asking the younger Murdoch to explain himself.
shawn
Submitted by well99 on Sat, 07/23/2011 - 5:20pm.
Sorry but your wrong.It is my home page.
http://www.foxnews.com/search-results/search?&submit=Search&q=murdock+ne...
There is twelve pages of links.That includes Fox Business also.Have fun.
Well
Submitted by shawn. on Sat, 07/23/2011 - 6:09pm.
I never said Fox news did have articles on it, I said everytime I click on Fox news I have not seem it on the home page
However I did not know there were this many. Thx for the links :-)
shawn
Submitted by well99 on Sat, 07/23/2011 - 7:27pm.
Like I said it is my homepage so I guess it was easier for me to notice.Just a note:I don't know if your a Star Wars gamer but it can be preordered now.SWTOR looks pretty good.
Well
Submitted by shawn. on Sat, 07/23/2011 - 7:34pm.
Love video games. It's unfortunate I have god of war 3, Batman Arkham, asylum and Dragon age 2 , hardly played and barely started
Going to work and being a parent, ie piano practice, helping out with homework, and posting on Newsbusters takes up most of my time
shawn
Submitted by hydrodynDM on Sat, 07/23/2011 - 8:04pm.
I'm in the same boat. I have about five games I've started but don't have the time to finish. Just to give you an idea of how far behind I am, I still have to finish Oblivion and the first Dragon Age and just started GTA IV.
I did finally finish the story for Read Dead Redemption (very very good game) but now I have to decide if I want to go for 100% completion.
Decisions, decisions.
hydro
Submitted by well99 on Sun, 07/24/2011 - 12:25am.
At least Oblivion and especially DA Origins are good games.I ran thru a lot of chrs on DA:Origins.
shawn
Submitted by well99 on Sun, 07/24/2011 - 12:22am.
DA2 not a fan of it.Did 3 runs thru and that was it.
O'Reilly salivates anytime GE
Submitted by MrOctober7377 on Sat, 07/23/2011 - 12:46pm.
O'Reilly salivates anytime GE is under any kind of scrutiny. Not saying the glee over NewsCorp is right, just that Fox News and every Conservative blog/site wouldn't act any differently if a Lefty media group was caught doing something.
GE
Submitted by Curly on Sat, 07/23/2011 - 12:50pm.
I would hope so. GE and Immelt are BHO pawns - they like he, need to be defeated at every turn.
They hacked phones, that's bad!
Submitted by CobraMan on Sat, 07/23/2011 - 1:10pm.
You've got to love the blatant Hypocrisy (with a capital H) on display by the Liberal media. They (Fox News) hacked phones: that's bad! We, (ABC, CBS, NBC, MSNBC, New York Times, the list goes on and on) on the other hand, print classified government information, acquired by "confidential sources" who broke laws (just like the hackers did) in bringing us that information: that's good! They're violated journalistic standards, while, we, the stalwarts of government oversight, , the purveyors of justice, the protectors of humanity, are doing our jobs, by using stolen, sometimes fraudulent, documents, photoshopped pictures, plagiarized, and even wholly invented, stories, just as we're supposed to! So, sit down, shut up, turn off Fox News, and drink your koolaid, America. We're here to protect you.
The Citizens of each State shall be entitled to all Privileges and Immunities of Citizens in the several States. The US Constitution
Unless you're a fetus. The US Supreme Court
Or Anwar al-Awlaki.
CobraMan
Submitted by well99 on Sat, 07/23/2011 - 5:29pm.
It wasn't even Fox News just a tabloid owed by NewsCorp.It is ok for the government media to break the law.They are above it.Ask them.Maybe we should have Newsweek investigate it since they did such a great job on the Koran being flushed.Seventeen people are dead because of there ineptitude.
A liberal colleague from work...
Submitted by drsamherman on Sun, 07/24/2011 - 8:07pm.
...was laughing at the "Fox Meltdown" and giving the usual liberal spiel about "Faux News".
I then asked him if he remembered these little tidbits from the American main stream media:
1) NYT divulging names of CIA members over the years - resulting in death threats, etc.
2) NBC and the NASCAR incident
3) CBS, Mary Mapes, Dan Rather and the fake Lucy Ramirez TANG documents right before the '04 election
4) ABC's whoring of the Wikileaks documents
He gave me the same look that I get from borderline personality disorders when I tell them to cut the crap and he walked away after trying to change the subject. His face turned beet red when I saw him during my morning hospital rounds. This ought to turn into some amusing paranoia on his part.