my letter to Faux News

[pasadenaboy]

I was trying to be nice and sound sort of conservative.

Sir,

I noticed this morning your "reporter" covering the democratic presidential campaigns in Iowa made one false statement and overall did a very poor job of reporting. He said that Howard Dean encouraged Americans not to prejudge Osama Bin Laden. What Dean actually said was that as president, he would not pre-determine the guilt or innocence of anyone prior to the conclusion of a trial, in order to preserve the rule of law. President Bush said something similar. . A fair and balanced presentation of this story would have compared the comments of Bush and Dean, and demonstated that they were very similar, rather than misstating and demonizing a rather mainstream statement by Dean

Your "reporter" also referred to "whoppers" by the Dean and Clark campaign. Should reporters classify statements as "whoppers"? If a reporter wants to disprove the statements of a specific candidate, that is legitimate. But categorizing their statements as "whoppers" without providing proof that said statements are false is poor reporting. I am assuming by "whoppers" the reporter is trying to say lies. If he wants to call the democratic candidates liars, he should simply do so and be straight forward about what he thinks.

I would hope that Fox will not abandon its pledge to report and let us decide. The coverage of the democratic candidates seems as if Fox has already decided and is not brave enough to come forward and say it.

I hope you will answer my letter and address my concerns. Thank you for your time.

Yours,

Derek Gullage
Pasadena, CA

[LatteLib]

1. Very well thought out letter

I hope you will post their reply if they even bother.
Great job, Derek!

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

2. Nice Letter

but they will ignore it. They know they are anything but fair and balanced, and hope that most people are too stupid to realize it.

[GregorStocks]

3. Hope?

You mean KNOW.
Note: MOST people.

[Deja Q]

5. Don't incite discouragement!!! (and an idea for the author of the letter)

The more people who are nice eough to take the time to send e-mail to these despicable bozos only makes them more aware that not all their audience is stupid.

We need to be vocal. Both to the source of the lunacy (Faux) and to other news agencies, both national AND LOCAL. We need to spread the word and to open up eyes to the tomfoolery being passed off as news. Just doing nothing and complaining everywhere else does no good.

Fox is spreading the manure throughout the land. Let's use our collective shovels and pitch back into back solely their yard, where it belongs.

This letter is a GREAT start! Please do re-write it as an editorial debasing Fox's myth that it is "fair and balanced" and spread the word!

:yourock: :thumbsup:

[zeemike]

4. Good letter though

I always like it when liars are called on there lies.

[Deja Q]

6. AWESOME MESSAGE, you rock! (now see post #5!)

:D

[Lone_Wolf_Moderate]

7. Good letter!

I fear however that your sound words will fall on deaf ears. We can only hope that someone will read it, and produce more than a cookie-cutter response.

[maggrwaggr]

8. My guess is they're passing it around laughing their asses off

Why be polite with these guys?

Call them what they are.

What's the point of anything else?

They could give a shit about your opinion or anyone else's but Rupert's.