First Australian born, not American, Rupert Murdoch, who came here via the UK, owns Fox news and the NY Post, and he is a propagandist. Do you really believe this means anything? Really. I love it. The right Wing Media starts feeding itself with BS.

NY POST! Is that where you are getting you info now? Wow they had a three headed alien baby on the cover last week.

Well I happen to know Bush will only go on FOX NEWS!! OH MY GOSH! So what.

Also Fox news emails and memos where found that showed that on air people where told to drop specific talking points from the white house, like “slow bleed”, into their brilliant propaganda.

THIS IS PURE BS. This means nothing. CNN is pretty straight forward. No news is completely with out some slant. However I am so tired of you big babies whining and crying and sniffling like a bunch of little girls about the MEDIA. Yea Iraq failed because of what? The Main Stream Media of course.

I don’t watch much CNN but Glenn Beck has a show and he is conservative. Lou Dobbs, Larry King, Wolf Blitzer and Anderson Cooper are all radical left wingers? I don’t know but I doubt it.

This right wing mantra about the MSM is so tired and old. This is part of Murdoch’s systematic attack on the competition. Make good business sense. The GOP and right wing media want to suppress negative news about them, the republicans. That makes sense. The MSM is not in the pocket of the white house (either party) and it is the natural enemy of Fox news.

The motive to sensationalize these stories is clear. Like all the whining about how the MSM did not hype or sensationalize the JFK pipe idiots enough. The head line “Republicans save the day again, like only republicans can; Thank God for George W Bush.” To hear the Bush appointed US attorney it was going to be worse than 9/11! Aha yes fear mongering.

New York Post is a RIGHT wing rag owned by Rupert Murdoch. When the Iraq study group came out with the bi-partisan report recommending a slow reduction in troops and withdraw, the NY Post called them “Surrender Monkeys”. Nice.

With such mass amounts of brown stinky stuff coming for the white house I can see why republicans would want to distract and discredit the media any way they possible.

Bush is jealous of Hugo Chavez, because Hugo can just shut down TV networks he does not like. Putin in Russia just goes out and poisons people who speak out with radioactive isotopes. I bet Rove and Cheney have thought of it, probably while watching an episode of 24 and pretending they’re Agent Jack Bauer. That is scary, and they did say its their favorite show. Cheney has all TV’s tuned to Fox news only! Bottom line watch what you want but SHUT UP ABOUT THE MAIN STREAM MEDIA. There are 8 to 10 news channels on basic cable, plus countless web pages and conservative talk radio. If you don’t like CNN change the channel.

It shouldn’t be news to anyone.

Perhaps, but you don’t see CNN at the checkout counter.

Even the checkout counter has standards.

2nd RULE: You DO NOT talk about NEWS CLUB.

There’s no doubt in my mind that CNN isn’t the only news source condoning and assisting paying various people and factions to stage “news”. In fact, I’d be willing to bet that each and every major network vying for King-of-the-Hill does it to some degree, and has done so for many years.

I don’t trust any of them to give me the news straight up 100% of the time. I basically go with my gut instincts on who to trust, and what stories to trust. Getting the news is like getting UFO reports. Some are definitely fake, some are quite possibly true because they haven’t been disproved, and some are just mentally defunct.

KelliD on June 8, 2007 at 1:20 PM

Yup. If they’ll suppress what they see so as to maintain “access” (to more stuff that they’ll suppress?), how small a step is it to buying news?

No surprise at all, other than the CNN writer’s guide failing to warn reporters not to divulge such details.

It’s a business model that seems to have worked for the National Enquirer…. don’t knock it.

rw on June 8, 2007 at 1:23 PM

Your right but, at the National Enquirer you also get the fun stuff. Like the pictures of the two headed babies and all of the details on Elvis’ flying saucer.

It’s a business model that seems to have worked for the National Enquirer…. don’t knock it.

rw on June 8, 2007 at 1:23 PM

Perhaps, but you don’t see CNN at the checkout counter.