Fox - $1 million to GOP! Fair and Balanced Indeed!

[NCVol]

Well, we knew this, but it's now official.  Fox is the official propaganda arm of the GOP.  Nice to know.

http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0810/Fox_parent_gives_1_million_to_RGA.html

News Corp., which owns Fox News and the New York Post, gave $1 million to Haley Barbour's Republican Governors Association this year, according to the RGA's most recent filing.
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The group's other seven-figure donor is the libertarian billionaire David Koch [aka Glenn Becks' likely gay sex sugar daddy].

[GRAY]

the reader comments are hilarious. it goes on with both sides. gimme a break.

[Flummoxed Lummox]

Where is the outrage from JUST SCREAM, Drive-By D-FENS, Sasquatch, and the rest of the far right fringe?

[Jeremy Roenick]

Of course FOX has a conservative slant.  You guys just figuring this out?  

As bad tilted to the "left" as most of the MSM is, FOX is in the back pocket of the RNC.  That's why media in general just can't be trusted.  By the same token I'm not going to have NC, AV or LTC sit here and tell me that ABC, NBC or CBS is centrist in their reporting.  In this day and age of media propaganda, it's absurd to claim that we have "objective" media and reporting.  Outside of a very few sources in the blogosphere and radio, it just doesn't exist.

[LTC]

Those media that you mention sure aren't centrist....more right leaning than anything!

[Sasquatch]

Those media that you mention sure aren't centrist....more right leaning than anything!

 

This is outrageous. Why I bet all of those dems on Fox will suddenly be campaigning for Palin because of this nonsense.

[Jeremy Roenick]

By the same token I'm not going to have NC, AV or LTC sit here and tell me that ABC, NBC or CBS is centrist in their reporting.

Those media that you mention sure aren't centrist....more right leaning than anything!

I certainly didn't expect that LTC.  That's rich.  I guess when Dan Rather went with the "forged letter" hit piece on GWB, that was a right wing attack?     When Matt Lauer and Katie Couric attack Sarah Palin (not that I have any love for Palin) that's a right wing attack?   

[LTC]

FWIW...Rather has been gone...uh,...how long?  Way too many times the lead into an news story from the librul media asks the same type questions or make the same type condming statements as the fake news Network...."Is Obama in trouble?  The economy is tanking...Obama's approval rating lowest in history...Housing sales lowest in years...blah...blah...blah....not a very librul uplifting lead in to the news story...  The difference in them and Fake News is that once in the story they do NOT do as much editorializing as Fake News. Are there some who are more librul than others? Sure, but you get a more fair and balanced report from them than the rethuglacrap propaganda machine. As NCVol says, if you want the complete truth...do not depend on the cable news networks.....do some research on your own.  I watch the evening news...I watch CNN...and I also read Washington Monthly( a true librul site, that actually gives more true info from both sides than most)...I also read Sullivan, Politico, Washigton Post and otehrs from both sides. The consensus is that the right-winged sites are so wingnutty that if it wasn't so sad, it would be funny.

[Sasquatch]

...."Is Obama in trouble?  The economy is tanking...Obama's approval rating lowest in history...Housing sales lowest in years...blah...blah...blah....

So you mean they are reporting the actual news, and you would rather have.........? 

[NCVol]

Of course FOX has a conservative slant.  You guys just figuring this out?  

As bad tilted to the "left" as most of the MSM is, FOX is in the back pocket of the RNC.  That's why media in general just can't be trusted.  By the same token I'm not going to have NC, AV or LTC sit here and tell me that ABC, NBC or CBS is centrist in their reporting.  In this day and age of media propaganda, it's absurd to claim that we have "objective" media and reporting.  Outside of a very few sources in the blogosphere and radio, it just doesn't exist.

I don't think they're centrist, I think they're "corporate" and reflect the interests of their behemoth corporate parents and the advertisers who pay their bills. 

Let's take NBC.  Owned by GE/Comcast.  If you all believe in corporations maximizing profits, it's bizarre to believe that GE will allow its entertainment arm, the news division, to peddle a message that conflicts with their overall corporate goals.  The fact is they push a line approved by their corporate masters and their corporate advertisers, as anyone who respects that owners and advertisers support a message that is consistent with maximizing their overall corporate profits. 

[GRAY]

yes it's that simple. everything gets rubber-stamped by the "corporate profit dept".

got it y'all?