It's some kind of Freudian problem for them.
Like MSNBC hosts who get "thrills" up their leg at the sound of Obama's voice.
Beck is a Rorschach Test for liberals.
Posted on 10/28/2009 4:38:25 AM PDT by Zakeet
Journalism has a special, hallowed place for stories of its practitioners' persecution. There is no higher claim to journalistic integrity than going to jail to protect a source. And the Newseum in Washington, D.C., establishes the profession's legitimacy with a memorial to fallen scribes, thus drawing an implicit connection between the murdered abolitionist editors of long ago and the struggling outfit that gave you this morning's page-one story about cute pets in Halloween costumes.
But no journalistic operation is better prepared to sing the tragedy of its own martyrdom than Fox News. To all the usual journalistic instincts it adds its grand narrative of Middle America's disrespectful treatment by the liberal elite. Persecution fantasy is Fox News's lifeblood; give it the faintest whiff of the real thing and look out for a gale-force hissy fit.
As the Obama administration has discovered by now. A few weeks ago, after Fox had scored a number of points against administration figures and policies, administration spokesmen decided it was time to start fighting back. Communications Director Anita Dunn called the network "a wing of the Republican Party," while Obama himself reportedly dismissed it for following "a talk radio format."
The network's moaners swung instantly into self-pitying action likening the administration's combative attitude to Richard Nixon's famous "enemies list."
(Excerpt) Read more at online.wsj.com ...
WSJ: always a bit behind the curve or over the top.
The Rich are definitely “different.”
You should note that this is an opinion piece by socialist Thomas Frank(”Whats the matter with Kansas”).
The article was written by Thomas Frank who is the WSJ’s TOKEN LIBERAL !!
The article should not be taken seriously ....it is garbage !!
WSJ circ went up slightly this year. Of the top 25 dailies, the WSJ is the only one that can claim that. It’s also #1 right now in total circ.
What kind of “special place’ do they have for certifiable lunatics like Keith Olberman, who 0bozo invited to the White House for cozy fireside chats?
Who wrote this idiotic article anyways? A 5 year old, or an escaped mad man from the local nut house? Pretty low standards for a newspaper like the WSJ isn't it?
Read the bio. No surprise here.
AND the WSJ has long been successfully charging for its content — because subscribers value the content AND are not offended by biased news.
Their circulation sure didn't go up because of idiotic articles like this one (they are usually pretty sensible). All they gotta do is keep producing more brain dead articles like this, and I can assure you, their subscribers will start dumping them, and head out the door. No one wants to pay just so he can read garbage every day.
I miss Megn Kelly, I hope she gets back soon.
Glenn Beck on this week of White House War on Fox News Channel(video clips and partial transscripts)
Well, if the Obama administration has its way, it will use “localism” and the un”fairness” doctrine to shut down less than favorable coverage. This administration wants fawning coverage on every network and in every paper.
If Fox were pushing conspiracy theories, Van Jones would still be working for the Administration and ACORN wouldn't have been defunded, etc.
Frank's argument rings hollow because Fox demanded and got (and is still getting) its pound of flesh from the Obama administration.
This column was penned by Thomas Frank which was omitted by the person who posted this thread. It is material in that Frank is a token liberal on staff. See the comments on the thread .......
Can you add the name of the writer for proper attribution?
It's a double-standard that lets them pick on Fox as being unbalanced yet ignore the blatant one-sided performance of the MSM.
It is a sad, sad state of affairs in our country today. The rhetoric, the violence, the class warfare, the move to socialism, moral relativism, the disdain for the military at the highest level, the national debt, the disgrace of a large portion of public education,the list goes on and on.
Much of America is humming along as it has for over two centuries, but there's an element that supports every thing on that list, and a lot more, and it's gaining strength. For lack of a better description, America is slowly grinding to a halt.
It's going to be an uphill struggle, against the wind, to wrest back our country from the Left, but it's more than worth the price.
“Frank’s argument rings hollow”.
Correct.
“Fox had scored a number of points against administration figures and policies.”
And the WSJ uncovered what????
Fox's ratings are up what .... 10 points? Some 'tragedy'. The real tragedy is that we have a pantywaist president who is so thin-skinned he gets his knickers in a knot if all media lips are not attached to his derriere with super glue so they won't detach no matter how fast & far he turns hard left.
>Newest columnist at the WST
>Clearly Liberal bias (has a blog at Huffington)
>Founding Editor of “The Baffler Magazine” a left-wing magazine of cultural, political, and business criticism that was founded in 1988
> He is a devout Sarah Palin basher
> Author of “The Wrecking Crew” - How Conservatives Ruined Government, enriched themselves and beggared the nation (from the cover)
> Blah, Blah, Blah...same old, same old liberal, leftist, Marxist life and world view...
Nothing to see here...move along...
I know I used to use it to cover the floor when we had the new puppy and friend of mine uses it to cover the bottom of the bird cage.
Fox News IS equal time.
This isn’t the Wall Street Journal’s opinion; it is the opinion of the author, Thomas Frank. I expect a backlash of letters to the editor telling Mr. Frank where to get off.
First, the above conflict is NOT imaginary. Ask any patriot or any Liberal - it's war! FOX did not invent this - they just reported on it. Mr. Frank & the MSM would have us believe we are in lockstep behind Obama.
Second, Frank says above that FOX “inhabits an alternate reality”, yet his last sentence (below) refutes this nonsense. Referring to the Obama attack on FOX, Frank says:
“It did nothing but furnish the network with a real-world validation of its long-running conspiracy theories ...”
So FOX is crazy, yet their supposed paranoia is justified by real attacks by Obama. That logic stinks, Mr. Frank.
And how are the WSJ’s circulation numbers?? FNC hads increased the number of viewers when the other alphabets have all lost. In addition, subscriptions to newspapers are declining, some as much as 25%.
Good post. I see two big trends ...
1) CNBC, Fox Business, WSJ ... leaning left and not as informative or as useful as they once were. More liberal/political guests (especially on CNBC).
2) Many attempts by the Left to re-cast Right as Wrong; Truth as a Lie. The mockery they attempt is stunning.
Ah yes, Thomas Frank, Ph.D in History from the University of Chicago, lived in Hyde Park and two of his friends were Ayres and Dorhn. As noted in another post subscriptions to the Wall Street Journal have declined. I did not renew mine after reading an article by Frank defending Ayres and Dorhn.
This is not the “WSJ” view. It is a column by Thomas Frank, who is a liberal.
This is not the voice OF the WSJ, this is a voice IN the WSJ.
Anybody here remember “Liberal Thursdays” on the WSJ op-ed page back in the 80s and 90s? I don’t remember anyone running around claiming that the WSJ was a lib paper then.
Gee, what a shock. A committed leftist like Frank doesn’t like FOX. He uses some interesting examples for Republican supposed use of censorship. Namely when the Slimes put American lives in danger by publishing state secrets. Frank has no problem with that. Someone should write a book “What’s the Matter With Frank” subtitled “And All leftists?”
That’s not true. The news pages were always liberal, and editorial policy was never enforced on it, while the editorial page was, and remains, libertarian/conservative, with some op ed pieces, such as Frank. I even remember op eds by Alexander Cockburn and that Donahue-haired guy, who was the Washington bureau chief, whose name escapes me. (pardon my senior moment.
So, I don’t think the politics of the WSJ have changed at all, and I’ve been a subscriber since the 1970’s.
“Donahue-haired guy”
Al Hunt? He had a regular column in their editorial section and was also a regular on CNN.
Who’s Thomas Frank? Never heard of him.
Has Al Hunt returned? Is someone inside the Murdoch operations secretly working for IBD?
It's some kind of Freudian problem for them.
Like MSNBC hosts who get "thrills" up their leg at the sound of Obama's voice.
Beck is a Rorschach Test for liberals.
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