To laugh at the ridiculousness, to scream at the outrageous or to… Well fox went to new lows in their analysis of Petraeus' testimony last week. When our friends at Media Matters let us know that they had 7 to 1 analysts in favor of escalation, it was hard to believe, even for FOX! 22 minutes supporting the escalation and only 3 and half against it. They went to such great lengths, they even cut away to Ann Coulter when Democrats questioned Petraeus!
Bill had an idea to show all this in 90 seconds, so he and Jonathan jumped right into it. Then we argued amongst ourselves for two days about what we should do about it? What could we ask, encourage, motivate folks to do. Yelling at the TV screen not being a desired option.
So we throw the question to you, our activists and media observers. What should be done about FOX? And given this ridiculous imbalance, should we encourage liberals and Democrats to stop going on FOX until the rules are fair, the deck is not stacked?
Give us your thoughts…
UPDATE: We messed up on the title card and put September 10th, 2008 when it should obviously have been 2007. We know about the error, and will fix it before September 10th 2008. :)
Boycott!
Already the lawsuit is showing that Rather had a witness to confirm his reporting, and the news station tucked that witness neatly away to appease the White House and our critic-sensible president.
Dan Rather was a scapegoat of the Bush Administration to scare all the others into submission. It worked very well for them.
Listen, c-BS, the American Nation, which was stellar among the nations, is now considered the scourge of the earth by the rest of the world. We now fill the spot left vacant by the former USSR. And why is that? Because this Administration has been acting the way the USSR used to act. It was their way or invasion. This is what the Bushies are doing, and our country is hurting enormously from it — and we’ll be hurting for a long time if this population doesn’t restore integrity to its government really soon.
Dang, I meant critic-sensitive president, not critic-sensible. There’s nothing sensible about that man. He appears governed by the desire to dominate, greed and looking good in the eyes of his rich friends and his papa.
Is the lawsuit to deprive FOX of their utterly false “Fair and Balanced” slogan still going forward? I think it should be pursued with all possible vigor and might help draw general public attention to the fact that FOX is indeed a propaganda organization, not journalism at all.
And Karole were is your PROOF that Dan Rather was a scapegoat of the Bush Administration to scare all the others into submission. Please, enlighten me, show me the PROOF. Or is ti all BDS (Bush derangement Syndrome.
Dan Rather took it upon himself to attempt to slur Bush and effect an election with his fake (PROVEN FAKE–unlike your claim) memogate documents…as far as your laughable USSR comments, its all Fox’s fault right? of course!
Try some Zeprexia for your paranoia–about 5mg should do it
Fox News will never present balanced views, so anti-war folks are as dumb to go on any of their programs as the Fox “opinionators” (note I don’t call them newspeople) who merely use airing opposing views to claim Fox News is balanced. Boycotting any Murdoch media is the answer (television, radio, and newspapers). I’ve quit watching any Fox affiliated channels except NFL games, and I’m close to boycotting them also.
Your question and choices are a little confusing, so I hope I voted right. Fox is a poor excuse for a news channel. People I know who just watch Fox, don’t know the first thing about the truth of this war. Fox does a great job of brainwashing the gullible.
Message to Fox Attacks… To begin to gain significant support for your campaign against the obviously biased Fox News station, I think the easiest and most intelligent thing to do would be to petition and present information to all of the OTHER news networks and give them the information that you’ve found. Present facts, and support them with documentation to the other networks and allow those other networks to present this case to the public. The affect you’re trying to have would be much stronger if CNN, MSNBC, or even E! or some network that’s not owned by Murdock came out and publicly shamed Fox and exposed them for what they are.
c-BS,
That’s what the lawsuit is about. Wait and see. If Rather cannot prove it, then the case will be dismissed. (That witness was identified on NBC this morning.) I bet Rather will get a hefty settlement in the end.
And what about all that O’Reilly and his pals fabricate and twist day in and day out? Shouldn’t they be ousted as well, you know, following your line of thinking to stick to the truth and nothing but the truth — thinking for which I agree wholeheartedly?
You seem to have a double standard for news people. I demand integrity from all of them, wherever they work.
Let’s remember that Roger Ailes was the media consultant for Reagan and the first Bush. He’s continuing to campaign for Republicans, now with his own network at his disposal. None of us, and particularly Dem senators and congressmen, should pass up an opportunity to identify Fox News as a voice of the Republican party, not a news organization.
We need to know the sponsors’ names, addresses and phone numbers. The sponsors need to know that we will not patronize them if they continue to support such programming. Liberals, dems and progressives that do appear on Fox must use their precious time to relay this message. Their first sentence regardless of the question or topic needs to be “I find it hard to believe that the sponsors of this program, ______, _______, and _____ know how biased this news network is. If they knew I believe they would spend their most powerfull advertizing dollars elsewhere.”
this is the suckiest web i have ever seen
WASHINGTON — “The Senate on Thursday overwhelmingly passed a measure condemning MoveOn.org for a newspaper ad it ran last week attacking Gen. David Petraeus. The move came as President Bush accused Democrats of cowering to the liberal political action group…The measure passed in a 72-25 vote, with none of the Democratic presidential candidates supporting it…”Senators Clinton and Obama need to decide whether they’re running for America, or running for MoveOn.org.”
Excellent clip….only the differences should read:
Pro-American Military
and
Pro-Surrender
God Bless the USA. Good job FOX.
Today, I did call as many sponsers as time let me–thanking thenm for advertizing on Fox!!!
And you are correct Karole, I hate c-BS, PBS, PMSNBC and gasp–I can–gasp THINK FOR MYSELF, even though I may listen to Fox–I know crap when I hear it, al la Dan Blather. And speaking of crap, that discribes this web site to a tee where all you ‘progressives’ sit around and bitch about a cable news channel. As if cBS and the like do not report news with a tilt to the (far)left!!!
Wow! Get a life–you guys and Moron.org
Reply if you want, but I won’t be reading it as I will NOT be visiting this idiotic site again–its nearing time for Shep Smith and the Fox report,. and I don’t want to miss out on the propaganda!!
As a veteran against the war, I am insulted by Ann Coulter’s remarks. How did she ever get on T.V. to begin with. Her views are very close to the KKK or the Nazi’s. If she had her way, we would be living in Communist China. If you ask me, most media is biased to either the Center or Right,not the Left,as many would have you believe. “Stay the course” all over again and again, just using different words.
I’ve stopped watching Fox a long time ago,
because, THEY ARE NOT FAIR AND NEVER BALANCED1111
Yeah, and the Clinton News Network is?
YES, YES, YES! Democrats should definitely shut out, ignore, and dismiss Fox as anything but a serious news organization, upholding high journalistic standards. They are beneath contempt and deserve to be openly disdained and boycotted for attempting to hijack and destroy responsible news reporting that Americans expect from the news. I am sick and tired of Fox slandering me as a Democrat and making defamatory statements about me as a liberal. Isn’t there a way for private American citizens who are registered Democrats to file a class action law suit against Fox for making defamatory statements about us? — Can’t they be held accountable for creating the partisanship that now infects and divides our country? After all, their defamatory statements have caused me severe emotional pain and blackened my reputation — that could very possibly endanger my life! I really take their insults personally and I want them to stop. So why can’t we sue?
Meh. This is absolutely nothing new to me– Fox always has, and always will, slant things towards the right-wing viewpoint. That said, if anyone were to drop a safe full of the nametags of dead soldiers on Anne Coulter’s wealthy, dyed head, I’d be a happy man.
Fox “News” is nothing more than the Reichsministrei fur Propoaganda of the Bush regime, with Roger Ailes as it’s Obersturmbahnfuherer. As the Bush administration declared war on the American People on January 21, 2001 (and then burned down the “Reichstag” a few months later, on 9/11), it is the duty of every American to take up the call of arms against Fox. We are at war, and they are the enemy – and thus a legitimate military target for the wrath of the The People. Lily-livered, marching in the street, NPR listening liberal wimps need to either embrace Radical Revolutionary Leftism…..or get the hell out of the way! AK-47′s are plentiful, easily and legally available at gun shops across the country, and so easy to use that even a Volvo driving, latte drinking, West Coast liberal can learn how to use one – if they have the cajones to do so. 60 years ago, the Greatest Generation stopped overseas Fascism dead in it’s tracks. Now, the time has come for THIS generation of Americans to pick up the cause against homegrown, corporate state Fascism and the criminal, Nazi Bush regime that supports it. If you love this country, stand up and FIGHT!! DEATH TO FOX!! DEATH TO CORPORATE AMERICA!! DEATH TO THE BUSH DICTATORSHIP!! TO ARMS, TO ARMS!!!
The one that got me happened just last evening at the Emmys, when Sally Field remarked, “If mothers were running this country we wouldn’t have any more wars.” Fox, as usual, cut it out of their news hour. Our modern rulers are extrmely leary of disent, and so was Big Brother in George Orwell’s powerful novel 1984, written over sixty years ago. It’s so disturbing because his novel describing a Police State parallels nearly everything happening in the world and in our country today. Either George Orwell had incredible insight, or Corporate Television has fashioned their own Ministry of Truth right out of the pages of his novel, an all pervasive News Network, whose three slogans were repeated nightly as in a ritual, so that to believe otherwise meant you were a mortal enemy of the State, someone who must be gotten rid of.
WAR IS PEACE.
FREEDOM IS SLAVERY.
IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH.
foxattacks.com = the jerry springer show
I think the only way to get them to change is boycott the station don’t give them any ratings and keep the liberals off until they will treat them fairly.
Do don’t underestimate us, you may know that not aren’t capable changing the actions people, but we can provide people with information than your ever growing lies and greed. thats the kind of message i wil speraded.
what do you know about the truth? do you even think for your self, wake up and smell the damn coffee, fox news you have no idea whats really in this dehumanization war, we are trying to save lifes, stop being so selfesh and start caring for others for once in your miserable life, i may be ridiculous, but i know whats right, why not just go get off your little computer and go to your pretantd world that the media is saying, but we are living in a real world and the true peaceful world is gone forever. May there be mercy for man’s greed.
Contrary to what Fox News posted on the comments board, we need websites like this to inform us of the political vehicle that is Fox “News”.
NO we can’t just turn the channels because we’ve been doing that for too long! I am awake Fox, and we are coming for you!!!
BTW, we know you didn’t “accidently” come accross this website. There are ridiculous websites out there, but this is not one of them.
I am glad to know that Fox News is the most popular news network in America. Hooray for Fox! Down with the liberal media!
Democrats, “Do as I say, not as I do.”
Frankly, anyone who watches the aimless pap that Fox calls programming deserves to be ignorant. TURN IT OFF!…Noone needs the Simpsons that badly.
Why doesn’t somebody follow the money?
Fox and its owners are getting something out of the propaganda it’s spewing. What ever happened to the scandal regarding the paid “news-gandists” about three years or so ago? How much money is the Bush Crime Administration giving out to Fox and other propagandists to this day? Why doesn’t some Democrat investigate that?
Just change the channel? Why not turn the page when you see an ad you don’t like? Christ!
“Just change the channel” one commentor said. Yes, what a dandy solution to the problem, eh? Ignore it! BRILLIANT! Now… where can I get me a mindless population like this to control?
It’s a hard thing
To have your peers scorn
Your ideas and thoughts
They say I’m a traitor
That I don’t have respect
And that I should be taught
I’m not saying I’m right
I’m not saying I’m wrong
But I would like to speak
To raise my voice up
And just be heard
That is all I seek
There are people who fight
To maintain our rights
And I support them all
By speaking my mind
And you’ll always find
Me crying when they fall
They protect our land
So I won’t stand
And ever block their way
But I can’t cease
Airing my beliefs
Despite what others say
Men and women stand brave for the time has come. You stand here today but for what? Do you stand here as it is right or true, or as you wish to protect your empire, your king, your families. I tell you now no reason is good enough to fight for except the reason of virtue. Think, one day your name will go down, one day you will be declared a warrior, you will be seen as gods amongst men. I will not stop fighting as long as my men fight by my side, you are the troops that walk earth when you should be walking heaven. You wish to know your destinies? You wish to see your futures? Then go out there and grasp it, take it in your hands. For today my friends you are no longer mortals, for today you cannot die. Death haunts every battle, he is cruel and takes away the spirit of men, do not fear him allies for as long as I live I will fight him every step of the way, I will push him away to enemy ranks and together, as one, we shall create a war like none other! Death is inevitable but only for our enemy we are invincible our pride is inconcealable our hearts are indestructible and our souls are will never fade. We will show them what we can do, they fear us men, they fear us more than anything. We to them are demons they to us are ants, let us crush them down, charge fourth men, charge fourth, for today is the day that we are seen through every eyes as heavens warriors. We are more powerful than any of hells allies combined. We are the warriors of destiny, we are the men that will go on fighting no matter what happens. Each man in this army is strong enough to take on the enemy alone but combined we are a force that makes heaven shake and hell erupt, we are a force that can defy the skys, the laws of nature, the laws of time. We are the men that will lead the empire and I tell you now I could not of picked a better army for you my friends are the best. What did your ancestors die for, did they want us to be loose? NO! They did not they wanted us to come forth and overwhelm our enemies, overpower their empires, destroy their hopes, and crush their dreams. By the end of this battle death will be our ally yet life will still support our cause. We may defy everything, but nothing can defy us, nothing can stop our charge, nothing can break our souls, and most of all, nothing will make! Us! Loose! This! War!
What are you Crazy?, were trying to make peace not war.
It all boils down to what Reagan did in 1988 bowing to pressure from the right: “Abolishing the Fairness Doctrine” which allowed channels like Fox News and Rush Limbaugh to exist. 92% of radio talk show hosts are right wing persuasion. Public airwaves belong to the public and the fairness doctrine must be restored. Insist that the presidential candidates promise to restore the fairness doctrine and bust the 5 media monopolies which control our thought process.
Really and truthfully… what is the market share for Fox News? Do they get significan audiences? My gut says, “No”. The nation appears to have been shocked into action, at least for the time being, and will soon vote out large numbers of phoney right-wing nuts who have proliferated as part of the anti-Clinton propaganda that began soon after his election. We just have to believe that the next Democratic president and Democratically-controlled Congress will take effective actions and not squander the opportunity for political expediency.
I realize that many people have bought into the propaganda that the federal government should be small and that publically funded initiatives are akin to “socialism” but the role of the federal government as what seemed to be invisioned by our country’s founders is to provide for the common wellfare. That includes bridges, roads, telecommunications, schools, retirement, and healthcare. What kind of stupid nation are we to neglecting these things? And in the name of “lower taxes”? Let me ask you how much your local taxes have increased to compensate for the decrease in Federal spending? Oh, you don’t see it? Try looking at your local roads and bridges. Ever bitch about how crappy your public schools have become? Know anyone who has gone broke paying for a surgery?
I think most people are starting to care about this stuff and thankfully, idiots like those on Fox News clearly do not. Therefore, their wanninginfluence will lead to their removal from our airwaves.
My gut says, “No”.
There’s a word for people who depend on their “gut” for information: ignoramuses.
F Fox news. They have been proven to take their speaking points from the white house, pushing their bullshit propaganda. the neo-cons have ruined this country for the last 8 years, with Fox playing a major role in that. Shame on them and Rupert Murdoch for swaying public opinion to push their agenda. They should be tried for treason as well as Cheney/Bush/Rice/Rumsfeld/Petraues
“There's a word for people who depend on their “gut” for information: ignoramuses.”
Would that be like “W” who acted on his “gut”?
It's a good move that President Obama admonished foxnoise as not being a legitimate news network; however I don't think the administration should actually ban them; it gives foxnoise more power and I doubt the “ben gleck teaparty-promoting” network will clean up its' act since dishing out right-wing propaganda and misinformation has been foxnoise's part and parcel for the last 13 years, and their audience drinks their koolaid like there's no tomorrow; they like what they hear and you can't argue with their ratings.
All one can really do is to call out foxnoise for what it is: propaganda and misinformation,
It's a good move that President Obama admonished foxnoise as not being a legitimate news network; however I don't think the administration should actually ban them; it gives foxnoise more power and I doubt the “ben gleck teaparty-promoting” network will clean up its' act since dishing out right-wing propaganda and misinformation has been foxnoise's part and parcel for the last 13 years, and their audience drinks their koolaid like there's no tomorrow; they like what they hear and you can't argue with their ratings.
All one can really do is to call out foxnoise for what it is: propaganda and misinformation,
The first step, is to make it illegal to intentionally fabricate news or report unreasonable assumptions. If we could organize a petition for that stopped that, I know of no one who wouldn't sign.