Is ABC News the new Fox?

[Doctor_J]

I was just at weatherchannel's web page and there was a ABC News ad there, with a scrolling marquee underneath it and one of the rotating headlines was

Black-on-white crime - Where is The National Media?

They ran Path to 9/11, hired Glen Beck, and sued to get spocko to stop posting the truth on his blog. Do they have any cred left, or are they Fox News?

[nadinbrzezinski]

1. Fox news led the way

as they loose more and more viewers they are pushing an ultra fascist corpo agenta, but it is the MSM in general...

[blm]

2. As FOX news ratings have been going down, ABC is tapping into their displaced

viewers who still pine away for some good old Republican dirty tricks but from new faces.

[wryter2000]

3. OTOH

I don't mean to defend them completely, but since I switched to avoid LaCouric, I've found them rather better than I expected. On Wednesday night just before Little Boots' speech, Gibson said, "As you listen to the President's speech, it may be helpful to remember what he's said in the past." They then played a montage of all the idiotic claims he's made about victory and staying the course, etc. It was pretty damning. I imagine the White House staff was slamming things in anger.

Having said that, I don't get my news from them. I get my news here. I watch them to get an idea of what's going out to the rest of the country as "mainstream" news.

[Stevepol]

4. NBC is the best of the four major networks I think, but they're far from "librul."

[Jack Rabbit]

5. It sounds like KSFO took over Disney

What a Mickey Mouse outfit.

[Graybeard]

6. Since that foxed-up 9/11 movie aired...

...ABC has been persona non grata in my household. True, Gibson is a likable guy, and Stephanopolis does a good Sunday show, but that piece of crap movie cannot be condoned in any way. ABC has lost this viewer.

[aquart]

7. After Path to 9/11, do you doubt?

[Smarmie Doofus]

8. YES! It has done a dramatic turnaround ,especially

... since the death of Peter Jennings.

Think about it: Barbara Walters replaced by RW die- hard John Stossell and news bunny Elizabeth Vargas. Jennings replaced by WH flack Terry Moran. Ted Koppell replaced by the British 'Michael Jackson is a pervert' tabloid guy and Niteline broken up into four "infotainment" segments down from one relatively in-depth, relatively comprehensive, 'both sides of the issue' exposition of one serious topic per program.

The TV network is now reflecting the blatant RW bias of the ABC radio network. Coverage of real issues is superficial or nonexistent. And content is generally dumber than dumb.

[GreenTea]

9. Fucking Disney (ABC)...regressive, repressive, neocon assholes!

[electprogdems]

10. yes eom

[Blue_Tires]

11. welcome to the site!!

[McCamy Taylor]

12. The FCC blackmailed Disney with "A La Carte" Cable threat

FCC can not control cable, but McCain/Stevens were threatening to pass legislation to make A La Carte Cable a reality and the FCC threatened to recommend it. Disney's new head kissed the FCC's ass, the FCC announced that it was going to recommend that the GOP Congress shelve A La Carte Cable and one month later production began on The Path to 9/11.

A La Carte Cable is just the kind of thing that a Democratic Congress might be willing to consider if the FCC brought it up, so Disney/ABC has to do some extra special Bush Administration Ass Kissing now.

The Bush Administration blackmails all the corporate media via the FCC except FOX, which is already right wing and NBC, whose parent company is GE and therefore is immune to FCC control. Viacom/CBS is subject to blackmail because they have been in violation of federal media ownership laws since 2000 and do not want to divest. Time Warner-CNN is subject to blackmail because the FCC dragged its feet on the Adelphi aquisition and threatened that it can do a "take back" with its approval at a later date when it finally gave authorization, meaning that CNN will not be off the hook until there is a new FCC head. The Tribune Co. is also in violation of federal media ownership rules.

Being corporate media under Bush was supposed to mean unlimited mergers and aquisitions. Instead, it meant being censored by the power of the FCC. Sucks to be the corporate media.