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President Of Fox News Tells Network To Tone Down Attacks On Obama

Posted by: Curt @ 10:40 am in Barack Obama, MSM Bias  | 5 views

And here I thought it was the obligation of the media in this country to report on news that will affect its citizens. It’s supposed to be unbiased but instead we get get the O’ network (MSNBC) going out of its way to report on any news that will support Obama and make his opponents look bad. Hell, the election is over with and the O’ network still report on some turkeys getting killed behind Sarah Palin as she was interviewed. That’s news? Here I thought the turkey on our tables were grown on trees.

So, about that obligation….Roger Ailes, president of the Fox network, has told his people to tone down any stories on Obama that would “obstruct” the incoming administration: (h/t Newsbusters)

Ailes responded to the report in the New York Daily News that he instructed FNC to tone down attacks on President-elect Barack Obama. He denied giving specific orders, but said he told staffers “all presidents deserve time to get their team on the ground and get organized.” “We have some obligation in a new presidency not to attempt to destabilize it,” he said. As for whether the big stars will heed the advice, he tells Gold: “Who knows? Most of them do whatever the hell they want.”

While the media shouldn’t obstruct a incoming administration, it most definitely has an obligation to report on its shortcomings….which is not “obstructing.”

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thebronze
 1Reply to this comment  

Fox News sucks! I quit watching them after the scurrilous false attacks on Sarah Palin by Carl Cameron. Can’t stand O’Reilly, so that was the last straw…

November 21st, 2008 at 11:43 am
franklaughter
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Remember what the “fair and balanced” network did to Fred Thompson? Even if they didn’t like like him he deserved a fair chance to define how he would deal with issues. The fact is that Murdock was in the tank for Hillary and BHO is his second choice. Anybody that thinks the order to tone it down was initiated by Ailes is living in la-la land.

November 21st, 2008 at 12:07 pm
MataHarley
 3Reply to this comment  

I saw it coming when I watched all that herd of idiots coming out as Obama’s backdrop on his first press conference. The female Fox news pundit kept saying “look how great that looks!”

I had to keep checking my display to make sure I hadn’t ended up on MSNBC

So now, I watch Fox Business News as the mainstay, and internet for the rest.

November 21st, 2008 at 12:38 pm
OLDPUPPYMAX
 4Reply to this comment  

Ah yes, good ol’ “conservative” FOX news. They are so afraid of being denied interviews by the Hussein administration that FOX and CNN will be indistinguishable, one from the other, in very short order.

November 21st, 2008 at 1:10 pm
blast
 5Reply to this comment  

haha… Oh, I guess you would rather he instruct his people to destabilize the new administration? That would be nice, in two wars and a financial collapse and you would rather the new president fail to prove some sort of point? Only an idiot would want the new president to fail.

November 21st, 2008 at 1:11 pm
Hard Right
 6Reply to this comment  

Umm blast, it was already stated we expect them to cover obama the way they cover everyone else. Try to keep up.

November 21st, 2008 at 1:25 pm
Fit fit
 7Reply to this comment  

The Fox announcement’s just a smokescreen, like when MSNBC announced they were benching Matthews and Olbermann.

November 21st, 2008 at 1:32 pm
USMCdaughter1
 8Reply to this comment  

I’ve had less and less use for any TV news station over the past year. None of them are accurate or fair and balanced, even Fox.

The last great bastion of freedom of speech is right here, on the internet.

November 21st, 2008 at 1:43 pm
A Typical Patriot
 9Reply to this comment  

Anybody looking to Fox for factual information will find nothing but ‘productions’ or ’shows’. I quit watching long ago.

November 21st, 2008 at 2:35 pm
thebronze
 10Reply to this comment  

The ONLY good thing about FNC is the amount of hot news-readers they have. Megyn Kelly, Martha McCallum, Courtney Friel, etc…

November 21st, 2008 at 4:29 pm
USMCdaughter1
 11Reply to this comment  

Ah now Bronze…what about Bill Hammer, Greg Kelly, Rick Leventhal….that’s some great scenery LOL!

November 21st, 2008 at 4:48 pm
Missy
 12Reply to this comment  

I still watch an hour or so of Fox and Friends, Cavuto is still a decent show, other than that, the channel has lost it’s luster for me. O’Reilly has always been a pompous boor, Hannity repeats himself way to much, and Shepherd Smith, after his performance down in New Orleans, that was it for him. Then there’s also Geraldo, why?

November 21st, 2008 at 5:26 pm
John Ryan
 13Reply to this comment  

Sad when Fox loses its friends. Well I suppose you can still watch Noggin

November 21st, 2008 at 6:20 pm
thebronze
 14Reply to this comment  

DevilDogDaughter1,

I don’t roll that way, but hey, whatever blows your skirt up!

November 22nd, 2008 at 1:04 am
tillthen
 15Reply to this comment  

FOX News is the best at promoting itself. In the end, they are nothing more than a self-anointed talk channel with the reins tightly controlled and totally fearful of attacking the down-low truth. They know exactly how to appeal to the stupid masses, proclaiming themselves to be the only network that reports all the news. That’s as genuine as the drivel from Obama.

November 22nd, 2008 at 1:44 am
tillthen
 16Reply to this comment  

I completely agree with USMCdaughter above:

The last great bastion of freedom of speech is right here, on the internet.”

November 22nd, 2008 at 1:48 am
A Typical Patriot
 17Reply to this comment  

Fair and balanced? – NOT. Would have been nice if they would have extended the same support to President Bush in 2001-02. Then again in 2006 when the House and Senate throttled him in everything he tried to do. I could go on and on including the most recent stealing of the MN and GA senate seats. Where is the outrage and fair balanced reporting here? Journalists have less integrity than used car dealers.
BTW how long do you think freedom of speech will last on the internet?

November 22nd, 2008 at 5:44 am
Oh hell no
 18Reply to this comment  

or what?

November 22nd, 2008 at 9:43 am
DocMartyn
 19Reply to this comment  

I was at an airport and watched a man running with his luggage on a moving walkway. When he got to the end of the walkway he went flying; he didn’t understand what momentum was. If you allow them to have their first hundred days, they will run, carrying all their luggage. Then they will hit the ground and go sprawling.

Let them exercise their vigor, and wait for the crunch.

November 22nd, 2008 at 3:57 pm
Real American Patriot
 20Reply to this comment  

A Typical Patriot: “recent stealing of the MN and GA senate seats”

care to expand on that one??? that is total BS in the MN case!

Just over 73 percent of the precincts had been recounted as of Saturday, accounting for nearly two-thirds of the votes.

Coleman’s total is down 669 votes, while Franken’s is down 621 votes.

The Coleman campaign has challenged 948 ballots, compared with 945 for the Franken campaign.

November 24th, 2008 at 2:22 pm
jpm100
 21Reply to this comment  

FoxNews is reactionary at best. They respond to stories initiated by the other cable networks and never initiate their own. They take their conservative audience for granted, because where else are they gonna go?

November 25th, 2008 at 6:08 am
Burr Deming
 22Reply to this comment  

If true, the report on FOXNews should be discouraging to partisan Democrats, of which I am one. Here is why.

November 28th, 2008 at 12:43 pm

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