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Title: Report: Journalists Debated Whether Government Should Shut Down Fox News
Source:
FNC
URL Source: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/201 ... ated-government-shut-fox-news/
Published: Jul 21, 2010
Author: FNC
Post Date: 2010-07-21 12:38:23 by Badeye
Keywords: None
Views: 16322
Comments: 30
Report: Journalists Debated Whether Government Should Shut Down Fox News Published July 21, 2010 A group of liberal journalists used a now-defunct listserv to debate the merits of whether the federal government should forcibly shut down Fox News, according to a report in The Daily Caller. The online publication earlier reported that the journalists in the private group discussed ways to shield Barack Obama from the Rev. Jeremiah Wright scandal when Obama was a presidential candidate. The latest article showed that several members of Journolist aired complaints about Fox News on the listserv in March of this year and debated how best to rein it in. Guardian columnist Daniel Davies, who said he was "genuinely scared" of the network, reportedly said "peer pressure" and "self-regulation" were not working. "In order to have even a semblance of control, you need a tough legal framework," he said. According to the report, UCLA law professor Jonathan Zasloff urged the federal government to stop the network. "I hate to open this can of worms, but is there any reason why the FCC couldn't simply pull their broadcasting permit once it expires?" he wrote. Time's Michael Scherer said Fox News used criticism only to build "tribal identity," but questioned whether the White House should be distinguishing between media organizations like that. But Zasloff went further, suggesting it was acceptable for the White House to pick and choose which reporters get press passes -- a concept Scherer again questioned. According to the report, the New Republic's John Judis said Scherer's skepticism would make sense "pre-fox." "Now it is only tactical," he wrote. Tucker Carlson, a Fox News contributor who started the online Daily Caller, said Wednesday that the listserv commentary as a whole proves the press took sides in the presidential election. "It's an appalling story. It's something that a lot of us suspected was going on. This verifies, in fact, it was going on," he told Fox News. In 2008, journalists working for Time, Politico, the Huffington Post, the Baltimore Sun, the Guardian, Salon and the New Republic expressed outrage on the listserv over the tough questioning Obama received from ABC anchors Charlie Gibson and George Stephanopoulos at a debate. Some of them plotted to protect Obama from the swirling Wright controversy, according to the Daily Caller. Spencer Ackerman of the Washington Independent pressed his fellow journalists to deflect attention from Obama's relationship with Wright by shifting topics to one of Obama's conservative critics, the Daily Caller reported. "Fred Barnes, Karl Rove, who cares - and call them racists," Ackerman wrote. Michael Tomasky, a writer for the Guardian, urged his fellow members of Journolist to do "what we can to kill ABC and this idiocy in whatever venues we have." "This isn't about defending Obama," he wrote. "This is about how the (mainstream media) kills any chance of discourse that actually serves the people." Journolist was shut down last month after leaks exposing member Dave Weigel's scornful remarks of conservatives led to his resignation at the Washington Post as a blogger covering the conservative movement.
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#4. To: Badeye (#0)
The Internet and Fox News are the greatest threats to liberals. Liberals can't compete in any arena. They need public assistance in all areas of their lives. Logic wins over emo every time.
Fox News is not a credible source.
Says who? You??
Yeah, I said that. Congratulations for getting it the first time.
Well, if there was ever any doubt that you're a shill . . . you've just erased it. Congrats on that. BTW - what IS a credible news source. CBS? NY Times? The Nation?
I'm not a shill. I have opinions, just like you. Fox ran with the faked Shirley Sherrod video. They have no credibility. The next time another source fakes a story, I'll say the same about them.
By your standards, then, neither does the Washington Post. (Reporter who faked a story for a Pulitzer prize.) Nor NBC (Dateline rigging pickup trucks to blow up) Nor CBS (Dan Rather) Pretty tough task-master, you . . .
With the exception of the WP, who fired the reporter after finding out she faked the story, you're right. They've had to try to earn their way back. CBS got rid of Rather, and I don't recall what, if anything, happened at NBC. Fox News shows no inclination to do that, and the scummiest one of all, Andrew Breitbart is now claiming, with no evidence whatsoever, that the farmer's wife in this story really isn't the farmer's wife. How low can can a person go?
Not to defend Fox (they are perfectly capable to defend themselves), but perhaps you should wait and see how things play out. Perhaps that is what they are doing. After all, much of the confusion about the Sherrod case came about because of a rush to judgment. The WH rushed to judgment ("You're about to be all over Glenn Beck") - when Beck had not even commented on the story) The NAACP rushed to judgment. The Dept. of Ag. rushed to judgment. Now they've had to back-peddle. Don't you think it might be a good idea for everyone to chill?
I'm positively frosty. Let me know who Fox News cans over this, and also when Andrew Breitbart fires himself.
Breitbart's credibilty took a major hit, no doubt. We'll never know for sure whether he was set up (the tape in question was OWNED by the NAACP, they should have known what was on it); or if he was deliberately malicious in his intent. The first is sloppy; the second is almost criminal. Either way, it's bad. Fox News? They're guilty of "rushing to judgment". You wanna fire someone there - okay. Then for the crime of "rushing to judgment", you'll also need to fire someone at the WH and the NAACP. For the life of me, I don't know why you statists have such a hardon for Fox. If they're as bad as you say, your stellar arguments SHOULD show them for what they are. The truth is your friend, right?
No, they're guilty of character assassination. Shep Smith said he didn't run it because it couldn't be verified. That's the way a news organization is supposed to work. That Obama went along with it without checking is to his disgrace.
Well there you go. Shep Smith hosts Fox's newscast. Hannity and O'Reilly are opinion shows. You have every right to call it character assassination if you want. But if you're going to be consistent, then criticize NBC owned stooges Rachel Maddow and Keith Olberman for the character assassinations THEY engage in.
And here I thought the name of the channel was Fox News. CBS, ABC, and NBC all run news shows but they don't call their channels XXX News.
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#6. To: WhiteSands (#4)
#7. To: Skip Intro (#6)
Fox News is not a credible source.
#8. To: Ignore Amos (#7)
#9. To: Skip Intro (#8)
Yeah, I said that.
#10. To: Ignore Amos (#9)
(Edited)
Well, if there was ever any doubt that you're a shill
#11. To: Skip Intro (#10)
Fox ran with the faked Shirley Sherrod video. They have no credibility.
#12. To: Ignore Amos (#11)
#13. To: Skip Intro (#12)
Fox News shows no inclination to do that
#23. To: Ignore Amos (#13)
Don't you think it might be a good idea for everyone to chill?
#24. To: Skip Intro (#23)
Andrew Breitbart
#25. To: Ignore Amos (#24)
They're guilty of "rushing to judgment".
#26. To: Skip Intro (#25)
No, they're guilty of character assassination. Shep Smith said he didn't run it because it couldn't be verified. That's the way a news organization is supposed to work.
#29. To: Ignore Amos (#26)
(Edited)
Well there you go. Shep Smith hosts Fox's newscast.
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