I so do agree with you, riseabove. Sometime I’m not sure if it is on purpose or if they just need to get in a ton of topics. Whichever the case, the reporters that get out onto the street have been cut to almost nothing for corporate profit. We don’t require networks to spend a minimum on news organizations anymore. We need a free and skeptical press to ensure our freedom of democracy. I still consider it public airwaves and the press has a huge responsiblithy This is where I wish we went back to regulation of news before Reagan.

riseabove: “I was shocked to see well respected commentaters treating Sarah Palin like dirt. ”

I did too, except Sarah wasn’t exactly being kind and cordial to her opponents from day 1. But two wrongs don’t make a right.

riseabove: “The point is you have to know how to recognize the truth and when you’re being conned and the only way to do that is to invest time and energy into your research. ”

Couldn’t agree with you more.

riseabove: If you never watch FOX News then your opinion is not credible. Please submit specific examples of why you believe it isn’t offering millions of viewers fair coverage.

I will say that Fox not nearly as caustic and frenetic GOP wavers as they are during elections. But this weekend on Fox and Friends: commentator leads out with “…will the dems that have to condemn Rangel party with him behind the scenes?” What objective newsman would leave the viewer with a tag line like this? Not a political maneuver, eh, Pollyana?

Then Fox News asks: “Are companies trying to take away your freedom to eat junk food?” Fox news explains a company will now only serve healthy food to in its employee cafeteria. From this headline you conjure visions of an armed guard stopping employees exiting for outside lunchbreaks. So what. Employers can offer to sell food in their commisaries however they see fit and its their right, no? The market will decide by folks ankling the company or taking 2 hr lunch breaks– it’ll fix itself Heaven forbid, employees could brown bag or step out to the neighboring McDonalds if they so choose. So where did this wild-eyed question come from if you are a journalist? It’s meant to stir up the paranoid fringe(or get ratings), whether it was true or not.

Saw Huckabees’ show. Innovative, creative, somewhat heartfelt. But he couldn’t resist carrying on the Fixed News meme. Huckabee leads with a statement that his guest Lynn Tilton says the govt makes it ‘impossible’ to make any money. (though I like when he did a ‘Breitbart’ on Obama and took half of Obamas sentence, and went on a sermon about Obama almost being a socialist, without taking into account the second part of Obamas sentence which put it all into context. Just like the first day of Sherrod, which only Beck and O’Reilly(by virtue of broadcasting later in the day by the time the Breitbart edit farce came in view) talked like logical folk. At least for a day. But during the Huckabee interview of this billionaire that looks like an over-the-hill stripper, whom used to be a 24yr old single mother, she never once made any mention of saying that ‘the govt makes it impossible to make money. Not once. But that was his big intro to her interview. It sounds great for the tea party crowd at least, and they take it and run with it then bash Obama over the head with it. Mission accomplished.

It was a pity, too, because this Lynn Tilton was the salt of free the earth in this country and is what truly makes our capitalist society great. She is a true hero, and is not afraid of sharing the positive messages about passion and creativity.

The Huckabee thing was the typical Fixed News way of doing things that I refer to. Take large or small stabs at the political opposition whether its right or not. Small stabs are effective too, especially behind the expert color of being a journalist– as long as they are numerous and continue over and over in perpetuity. Mission accomplished.

Many on the left feel that Fox News is not ‘free press’ and it operates more like a corporate or political arm than a news network. These few things I’ve mentioned contribute to this feeling.
I would give you more, and I enjoyed watching Fixed news more than I had expected. But I don’t want to write a phone book sized post.

I found your entry interesting thus I’ve added a Trackback to it on my weblog …

You take the high road I see. A whistleblower type always garners sarcasm and negativity from the folk he is ‘outing’. If a BP whistleblower comes out, he has a tremendous opposition to deal with his entire life. You are one of the lesser opposition types that Brock has to deal with from the right.

And the signs of these weekly Republican meetings with the media are all around you. I’ve shown just a bit. It’s like those feelers a parent has when he senses a kid is lying and goes and finds the trail that leads to a lie? No political party is perfect, thats for d__n sure. But you turn your feelers off for your own party.

A pity. And taken in the aggregate, a tragedy.

Show me how ‘the stories are made up’. I don’t remember you proving one thing anniebannanie, but you are constantly full of bluster.

Since the Gulf spill rig didn’t have a blowout device:
http://online.wsj.com/article/NA_WSJ_PUB:SB10001424052748704423504575212031417936798.html

…dems have put up a bill to shore up regulations in this regard. Repubs in the Senate will vote against it in lockstep.
http://www.boston.com/news/nation/washington/articles/2010/07/31/house_approves_bill_with_new_safeguards_for_oil_rigs/

If the BP campaign money is so important as you say, he would veto it. The bill also stops giving away FREE leases to companies that are more profitable than any in the world. It will not change the oil companies willingness to do leases one bit. Those oil companies are making filthy money, which is good. And then setting up shop in foreign countries to not pay their fair share here in the U.S. But want corporate welfare. But Repubs will rally and all vote against the bill and maybe kill or at least water it down to being toothless in the senate, which they do for just about everything. Even the 9/11 responders bill just the other day got axed.

http://www.businessweek.com/ap/financialnews/D9H8NBM80.htm

Where is country first? Repubs are corporations first, the rich second. Same old story. Greed is good, health and safety be damned. Show me this is not true. And not just by calling names like a playgrounder.

Very interesting post, I’ve added a Trackback to it on my weblog …

Right,,,,one guy says yes, 80 guys so no, but you’re going with the yes guy cuz he’s in your fantasy narrative. Whatever. Even if it did happen, prove where these journalists on the right lied and twisted the news in order to change an election.

You make up these fantasy things in your head and wonder why the rest of us didn’t “lift a finger to a keyboard” about it? What a joke!

Were those the regulations that BP was trying to protect while they gave huge amounts of money to Obama? Oh, wait, that doesn’t fit your fantasy narrative.

You’re all full of made up stories and real short on facts.

Dude, if you didn’t know, one was Prez and the other Vice Prez. Meetings happen between those two posts. And we shouldn’t expect to be privy.”

She didn’t mean with each other. Are you really that dumb?