Washington Post Questions Fox News On 2010 Election Coverage

[Charleston Chew]

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Bill O'Reilly interviews Bernie Goldberg about Washington Post criticizing Fox News for an unfair coverage on the 2010 Mid-term election

[Hamlette]

1. they have the gall to criticize WaPo for allowing someone to "lie" without a retraction

about a stupid thing like how many dems did Fox have on the air for its election coverage. Who the fuck cares? Tell Fox that WaPo will apologize and correct the error when they correct all their errors starting with WMD right through death panels and beyond.

Unbelievable.

Frankly, when I realized the "guest" was Goldberg I stopped watching but posted this so you don't even have to listen to that much.

[JDPriestly]

2. O'Reilly is one step ahead of Paladino in terms of his cultural niveau and education.

Both O'Reilly and Paladino act like Mafia rejections.

What in the world does O'Reilly know about anything? What degrees does he have? What does he know about the world? What does he know about world history?

Why can't Fox News hire some intelligent, educated people?

Rachel Maddow and Dylan Ratigan are educated, well spoken people. That is why I prefer to watch them.

I can't stand to watch Fox News. I was born was into a relatively poor family. I am not a child of privilege.

But I worked my way through school, earned several degrees in different disciplines, am widely read, have lived in five countries and worked in the real world while raising a family. I consider myself qualified to discuss political matters and news events intelligently.

Sorry if it sounds conceited, but when I measure the Fox newscasters against myself, I find that I, who would never consider myself qualified to appear as a TV newscaster, am better qualified than they.

I wonder how the ignorant people on Fox News dare to display their lack of knowledge to the world as they do every day? Stupidity must be a very blissful state. But I feel embarrassed for them. They are a sorry bunch and they are leading Americans into a dismal future.

The existing Fox newscasters need to acknowledge that they are unfit for their jobs, resign, go back to where they came from and shut their mouths.

Fox newscasters seem to be lacking in compassion. Sometimes I wonder if they have to take a psychological test before their hiring -- perhaps something that identifies personalities who have no empathy for others -- types genetically disposed to opportunism. Perhaps that is why they can blabber on and on in the secure knowledge that THEY will not pay the price for the nonsense they spew. It's their poor viewers who will pay the price. So, they figure, who cares? How sad for our country.

Fox News is the most unpatriotic news media we have. Rupert Murdoch answers to all sorts of foreign nationals. He was not born an American. He spends very little time in our country. And the second largest stockholder in his country is Prince Alaweed, a Saudi national. Yet Fox purports to be the "patriotic" cable source.

What a fraud.

[nonoxy9]

3. BARF!!! If anyone who lies should be fired, Billo would have been GONE

Years ago! The outright madness and hypocrisy is beyond putrid!:puke:

[suzanner]

4. Wait. They (Faux)went to the FL supreme court in order to legally lie, right?

For the past 2 years, these cable clowns have been just saying back everything liberal blogs said about Bush (or any RWnut that made the news) starting from 2001 on, only pointing to whatever liberal gets some press. Practically verbatim. Just as this is another reversal or reality. So MSN is their new target. Expect further unrelenting war on any news outlet that is not in their RW propaganda machine.

[spicegal]

5. OReilly is such a fricken jerk. Fox gets away with murder, literally.

[Charleston Chew]

6. OutFoxed

: Rupert Murdoch's War On Journalism

"Outfoxed" examines how media empires, led by Rupert Murdoch's Fox News, have been running a "race to the bottom" in television news. This film provides an in-depth look at Fox News and the dangers of ever-enlarging corporations taking control of the public's right to know.

The film explores Murdoch's burgeoning kingdom and the impact on society when a broad swath of media is controlled by one person.

Media experts, including Jeff Cohen (FAIR) Bob McChesney (Free Press), Chellie Pingree (Common Cause), Jeff Chester (Center for Digital Democracy) and David Brock (Media Matters) provide context and guidance for the story of Fox News and its effect on society.

This documentary also reveals the secrets of Former Fox news producers, reporters, bookers and writers who expose what it's like to work for Fox News. These former Fox employees talk about how they were forced to push a "right-wing" point of view or risk their jobs. Some have even chosen to remain anonymous in order to protect their current livelihoods. As one employee said "There's no sense of integrity as far as having a line that can't be crossed."

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