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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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…
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.
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.
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.
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.
Umm blast, it was already stated we expect them to cover obama the way they cover everyone else. Try to keep up.
The Fox announcement’s just a smokescreen, like when MSNBC announced they were benching Matthews and Olbermann.
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.
Anybody looking to Fox for factual information will find nothing but ‘productions’ or ‘shows’. I quit watching long ago.
The ONLY good thing about FNC is the amount of hot news-readers they have. Megyn Kelly, Martha McCallum, Courtney Friel, etc…
Ah now Bronze…what about Bill Hammer, Greg Kelly, Rick Leventhal….that’s some great scenery LOL!
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?
Sad when Fox loses its friends. Well I suppose you can still watch Noggin
DevilDogDaughter1,
I don’t roll that way, but hey, whatever blows your skirt up!
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.
I completely agree with USMCdaughter above:
The last great bastion of freedom of speech is right here, on the internet.”
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?
or what?
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.
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.
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?
If true, the report on FOXNews should be discouraging to partisan Democrats, of which I am one. Here is why.