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Ted Koppel, Elitist Hack: 'Corrosive Partisanship' That Fox News Started Is Ruining the Country
Newsbusters ^ | 11/26/2011 | Tim Graham

Posted on 11/26/2011 2:32:43 PM PST by Signalman

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To: Signalman

Ironically, Fox News only generates 3-5 million viewers in prime time. Now that’s a relatively small number given the viewers generated by the three big networks, plus Fox. Of course, it’s a huge number compared to other cable fare.

Why is it so bad that there is a channel that leans right? Also, many right leaning people don’t even watch Fox News and cannot stand some of, if not all off, the prime shows.


41 posted on 11/26/2011 3:39:15 PM PST by motivated
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To: Signalman

I’m pretty sure that I am as big an idiot as Ted. But, I have sense enough to stay out of the public eye.


42 posted on 11/26/2011 3:51:52 PM PST by Thom Pain (OMG ABO USA = USC: United States of Chicago)
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To: PGalt

High five!

He’s a pompous arse if there ever was one!

Smug, arrogant, little bustard too.


43 posted on 11/26/2011 3:54:15 PM PST by onyx (PLEASE SUPPORT FREE REPUBLIC:DONATE MONTHLY! Sarah's New Ping List - tell me if you want on it.)
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To: Signalman
that while doctors and lawyers needed a license to practice, that while everyone needed a license to drive, or hunt, or fish, nobody needed a license to be a journalist.

By God, I think I see the problem...any red-headed, silver tongued, Alfred E Newman lookin liberal, who thinks the exercise of the 2nd amendment needs a license, can be in the right place at the right time as a country takes your countrymen hostage -can call themselves a "journalist"
44 posted on 11/26/2011 3:56:46 PM PST by stylin19a (obama - "FREDO" smart)
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To: Signalman

At least now we have a few news sources that counterbalance the left-wing bias that is predominant in the mass media outlets in this country. The progs can’t tolerate the competition.


45 posted on 11/26/2011 3:58:29 PM PST by windsorknot
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To: motivated

I only occasionally watch Bret Baier. Mayyy-be once a month. Other channels....zip.

They lost me after the Katrina coverage with Mascara Man and Jerry Rivera.

Tried watching O’Blowhard few times recently. Just. Can’t. Do. It.


46 posted on 11/26/2011 3:59:19 PM PST by digger48
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To: Signalman
Koppel was king with "America held Hostage." There was no news competition in the post-nightly-news time slot. He had it all. He has been all downhill ever since, and he can't get over it.
47 posted on 11/26/2011 4:01:34 PM PST by hinckley buzzard
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To: Signalman

self ping...this is too good not to share....just wow


48 posted on 11/26/2011 4:11:12 PM PST by advertising guy (dammit)
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To: Signalman
when it was guided by a small and wise national media elite

Hey, you little dork, no one asked for guidance from you or any of your airhead "elite" liberal colleagues. None of you including the idiots at Time and Newsweak have ever hand any influence on what I think.

FOAD........

49 posted on 11/26/2011 4:11:53 PM PST by doorgunner69
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To: nwrep
I dont think so. The Hostage crisis was just news, not a hammering of Carter by Koppel. Reality was doing that. Bernie Shaw's question to Dukakis was meant to be a softball. He was supposed to man up. Dukakis let it hit him in the mouth. MoDo's story on Zaccaro I suppose was what Rush has called a "random act of journalism." Or maybe she was getting it on with some editor back then.

But look: over 30 years, with three networks two major papers and two national "news"magazines, how many of those can you name? And how many stories omitted? The worst bias is committed by selective omission.

50 posted on 11/26/2011 4:12:20 PM PST by hinckley buzzard
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To: Signalman

The biggest sin of the alphabet networks was not that they lied to the public on a daily basis (although they did their share of that), but that as gatekeepers they spread the half-truth. More people are fooled by the half-truth, or the half-story, than they are by the baldfaced lie. Big Liberal Media knew that there were stories that the public should never see. Although hardly perfect, FOX News airs the other side of the story. For that sin, in lib eyes, FOX must be attacked and denigrated if not outright destroyed.


51 posted on 11/26/2011 4:12:29 PM PST by driftless2
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To: nwrep
"less partisan"

True to a certain degree. Howard K. Smith, ex anchor for ABC, was an unabashed conservative and gave conservative opinions when given the chance. Likewise Chet Huntley of NBC's Huntley and Brinkley was a conservative. Try finding people like them at the alphabet networks today.

52 posted on 11/26/2011 4:15:32 PM PST by driftless2
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To: doorgunner69

bump


53 posted on 11/26/2011 4:16:28 PM PST by GeronL (The Right to Life came before the Right to Pursue Happiness)
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To: Signalman

54 posted on 11/26/2011 4:23:08 PM PST by Lancey Howard
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To: Signalman
Simply pointing a live camera at an unfolding event, and then transmitting that signal around the world, was not, I suggested, journalism.

Yeah Ted, who are people going to believe? Actual footage of an event or your sorry lying mouth?

55 posted on 11/26/2011 4:29:52 PM PST by Arrowhead1952 (Dear God, thanks for the rain, but please let it rain more in Texas. Amen.)
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To: motivated
Why is it so bad that there is a channel that leans right?

And they don't even lean right! (Except when compared to Pravda on the Potomac) They just lean less-left.

56 posted on 11/26/2011 4:30:00 PM PST by Still Thinking (Freedom is NOT a loophole!)
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To: nwrep
Those are some lame examples. I watched Nightline every night back then and there was no hammering of Carter. And Shaw's question to Dukakis was as benign as Roger Mudd's question to Ted Kennedy: "Why do you want to be president?" Just because the two scumbag rats fumbled their answers doesn't make the questions pointed or gotcha.

No the Democrat newsrooms are absolutely no more biased today than they were 30 - 40 years ago. The difference today is that they are completely unable to hide their lies and bias anymore.

A mere 10 years earlier and Dan Rather may well have gotten away with his Bush National Guard story and the forgery that he used to support it. ...Which only begs the question: How many lies and phony stories and forged documents did the Democrat newsrooms get away with during the last four decades??

57 posted on 11/26/2011 4:40:37 PM PST by Lancey Howard
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To: Signalman

Koppel I guess you like the good ole days, where CBS, NBC and ABC fed us half news.


58 posted on 11/26/2011 4:56:11 PM PST by ExCTCitizen (Cain/West 2012....what would the RACISTS LIBERALS say???)
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To: Signalman

The Constitution protects the rights of the press. Television talkers are not running printing presses. The Constitution means what it says.


59 posted on 11/26/2011 7:22:26 PM PST by Sgt_Schultze (A half-truth is a complete lie)
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To: Lancey Howard
newsrooms... are completely unable to hide their lies and bias anymore.

Bump everything you said here. Like Rush says to Liberals, "There is no place to hide anymore!"

Hey, Ted. You and you elitist ilk let Bill Clinton get away with high crimes and misdemeanors.

60 posted on 11/27/2011 7:34:31 AM PST by VRW Conspirator (Progressives: unteachable, self-loathing and suicidal. They are Kamikaze Utopians. -FReeper wac3rd)
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