Is someone keeping track of the nasty things newscasters are saying?

[Bouncy Ball]

I use "newscasters" lightly.

But I just read about a guy named Gibson on FUX saying too bad the Olympic committee didn't pick Paris, because they would have blown up Paris and who cares? (And he's assuming it had to do with the Olympics? How weird!)

Then there was someone (Brit Hume) admitting on the air that one of the first things he thought about was that the market was low because of the explosions and it was a good time to buy. Nasty man.

I know there have been several other examples. Is anyone collecting them? I want to bookmark a nice little file of them. Lovely demonstration of their complete lack of humanity going on right now.

[NYCGirl]

1. Media Matters:

www.mediamatters.org

[shoelace414]

2. http://mediamatters.org/

http://mediamatters.org/

[Bouncy Ball]

3. Thank you, you two.

Why didn't I think of that? Sorry, I'm feeling cloudy this morning!

[wicket]

4. Media Matters is doing a fantastic job

http://mediamatters.org

[LynneSin]

5. Bookmark Media Matters - David Brock is a genius

especially sweet since he's an ex-right wing hack (Troopergate and "The Real Anita Hill")

[Bouncy Ball]

6. Just did it thanks.

I didn't know there was a comments section. I've been reading the comments on the Gibson shit.

Ug. Makes me SICK.

[wtbymark]

7. just Tivo Faux news....

Thats the lunatic binge

[Bouncy Ball]

9. Yeah, I noticed all the nastiest stuff is from FUX.

Yesterday, I broke my rule and watched cable news (I only do it when there's something huge happened or has happened) but I chose MSNBC because they seemed the least.....melodramatic and hateful.

[Solly Mack]

8. I sent the link, along with a comment, to the French Consulate in Atlanta

Yeah, it probably won't do any good...but such comments should not go unchallenged.

I've got the media matters link bookmarked.

[Bouncy Ball]

10. Oooo good idea.

[Solly Mack]

11. Consulate link

http://www.info-france-usa.org/intheus/consulates.asp

Couldn't hurt and it might just help.

[jojo54]

12. Great idea Solly

The media should be just as responsible for flaming remarks, just as anyone else is.

[Solly Mack]

15. Just like that MSNBC poll: "Are you happy France lost the Olympics?"

The Press, and many other so-called pundits/anchors, do nothing but promote hate when they do things like that. It's irresponsible and it's very damaging.

[Swede]

13. Great post Bouncy Ball.

This is a bookmarker.

[sui generis]

14. I remember reading something about why Rome's

gladiator games died out around 300 A.D. -- that the general population got progressively more sick and tired of watching people slaughter each other for fun and games. Eventually people stopped paying to see them, and without the economics to support it, the games died out.

I'm hoping that eventually we'll rally and display how sick and tired we are of sociopathic pundits slaughtering our humanity with their inane commentary. They do not speak for America.

I wonder, 30 or 50 years from now, will there be a general revulsion to this period in America's history? Will the O'Reilly's and Limbaughs and FOX networks be shown as cautionary tales, and with the same contempt we show clips of speeches by the Imperial Wizard and governors of Mississippi and Alabama from 40 and 50 years ago?

If so, they are crafting their legacy every time they speak, and I hope it is a legacy of shame to fit in with our other historical shames. The rest of us who have always known better aren't going to stop with the job of making things better for everyone just because of a few crazy people in the blush of their fame. It is hopefully our children and their children who will teach and learn from this chronicle of depravity that conservatives are working so hard to build.

[KharmaTrain]

16. Bouncy...It's Playing The Fear Card

I kept running around my office yelling for people to take cover...Osama bin bombin is back in town. Sheesh.

Everyone and anyone who could play the fear card came out in spades yesterday and tried to make up for lost time. Look at all the ground they've lost in the past couple months. We needed a good dose of fear and scare to getting us "back in line". :sarcasm:

What gets me is how they think this dead cat continues to bounce. Plus how inept these "terrorists" are...if you're gonna blow up a city and want to scare people, one of the worst places to do it is by blowing off bombs inside subway tubes. There weren't good pictures of flames or smoke or people fleeing in total panic. This was "too British"..."organized chaos" was the word I heard.

Media Matters & Crooks & Liars has been doing a good job on keeping track of all this silliness.

Peace...

[stewert]

17. F&F.........

Some neo-nazi dork on fox and friends said the London bombings were good for the US, or some crap like that.

I read about it somewhere, just cant remember where right now.

[China_cat]

18. Rudy Giuliani

saying the people of London did everything 'JUST ABOUT right' when responding to the attacks.

[Taxloss]

19. Yes, Media Matters, and my site is picking this up as a campaign:

http://www.londonist.com/archives/2005/07/keeping_it_in_p.php