Eric Boehlert: Spocko, Glenn Beck, and ABC

[babylonsister]

http://www.smirkingchimp.com/thread/4818

Spocko, Glenn Beck, and ABC
by Eric Boehlert | Jan 17 2007 - 9:25am | permalink


President George W. Bush's popularity has fallen to new lows, Democrats have been swept into office, and a strong majority of Americans now opposes the war in Iraq, but ABC has decided the time is right to beef up with more conservative pundits on staff and to strike out against a liberal online critic who raised questions about the network's policy of broadcasting hate radio.

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Consider the fact ABC and its parent corporation Disney:

* Recently aired the historically inaccurate miniseries Path to 9/11, which was created by a cadre of conservative filmmakers determined to blame the Clinton administration for not preventing the 9-11 attacks.
* Employs Mark Halperin as ABC News' political director -- the same Halperin who last fall in a series of interviews with right-wing media outlets, endorsed conservative conspiracy theories that mainstream journalists are "overwhelmingly liberal," "hate the military," are "blind" to their bias, and should use the closing weeks of the campaign season to "prove" their worth to conservatives.
* Let the network's online daily newsletter, The Note, run by Halperin, evolve into a sycophantic outlet of Bush/GOP spin.
* Refused to distribute Michael Moore's award-winning documentary Fahrenheit 9/11 because the company didn't want to be associated with a product so "political," despite the fact some ABC-owned talk radio stations and ABC-syndicated radio hosts traffic, on an hourly basis, in wildly partisan and often off-the-chart hate rhetoric.
* Give chronic, professional fabricator John Stossel a national, prime-time platform, where his opinions are always aired unopposed.
* Hired Rush Limbaugh as a football analyst only to have to remove the right-wing talker from the air after Limbaugh immediately inserted unwanted racial overtones into a broadcast.
* Used bogus reporting to help relentlessly hype the phony Whitewater scandal during the Clinton administration.

So much for the liberal media.


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[salin]

1. k & r

I remain impressed with the ripples that Spocko has created - this article takes it further by highlighting ABCs other actions of recent times - highlighting the 'subtle' (to most viewers) shift to the right and shutout of the left as if they want to be the 'alternative Faux' - as if there needs to be a second Faux News with a "friendlier face."

[annabanana]

2. They probably think we just need more "convincing". . . lol

I'm sure that some BOZO upstairs at ABC "knows" that Bush's unpopularity is because his policies haven't been "expla-a-a-ained" well enough.