"Funny. Some time ago I saw some Israelis murder a Palestinian kid on numerous stations, Fox among them."
Well, the cynical part of me chalks this up to the fact that there's some vague pro-Palestinean sentiment brewing, and they don't want to get caught with their pants down.
-TD
From: "James A. Donald" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Who Owns the News Date: Sat, 01 Mar 2003 19:41:33 -0800
-- On 1 Mar 2003 at 11:25, Eric Cordian wrote: > FOX recently fired two reporters after they refused to change > the facts of a news story. Fox said to them, "We paid $13 > billion for these stations, and we'll tell you what the news > is." > > In a unanimous decision, the 2nd District Court of Appeals > overturned a $425,000 jury award to another FOX reporter who > was fired after refusing to alter the facts of a story. THe > judge ruled FOX had a right to lie, deceive, and mislead. > > MSNBC just fired Phil Donahue after a marketing report > outlined a "nightmare scenario" in which MSNBC was perceived > as giving a forum to anti-war sentiment while all other > networks were engaged in patriotic flag-waving.
You are making all this crap up. For example Donahue was fired because few were watching him sneer at them. Liberals cannot succeed in talk shows because they hate and despise their audience. He was getting about one quarter the audience of the competion. The nightmare scenario that MSNBC was so alarmed by was that no one was watching him vomit hatred over his audience.
Much the same for all your other stories
> When CNN tried to cover the Palestinian side of the Mideast > Conflict, Israel threatened to drop CNN and pick up FOX > instead. CNN caved instantly. All CNN copy is now required > to be reviewed by upper management in Atlanta before > broadcast, and anything that isn't pro-Israel is killed.
Funny. Some time ago I saw some Israelis murder a Palestinian kid on numerous stations, Fox among them.
Channel surfing last night I saw bits of a long boring documentary where the camera followed various Palestinians around in their daily lives, depicting the distressing effect on the Palestinians of various Israeli collective punishments. Not sure what station it was on. Terribly earnest public good stuff.
Sure the press is biased, but there is plenty of stuff that is very far from pro Israel, even on channels that are openly pro Israel, such as Fox.
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