Posted on 09/11/2006 12:33:09 AM PDT by bouchard3333
Is abc's turnabout a lasting sign? Remember when IGER took over Disney? everybody was saying he was a republican or at least not a die hard liberal like the guy he replaced (isner).
despite the small edits, do you think abc is actually trying to leave the (democrat media party) plantation?
Why do they say Iger is a Republican?. Someone posted his political donations here on FR the other day and it was slap full of democrats and two RINOs (Specter and another I can't remember).
Maybe just donating to RINOs is enough for some people to call Iger a Republican. Sadly, I don't think anything short of an actual revolution will get the media off the liberal plantation.
Not that I'm advocating such a thing.
Yet.
Because he permitted something to air that strayed (for now) from the DNC talking points.
Moonbats wanted the miniseries to show Cheney planting bombs at WTC7, military planes flying into the towers, a missile hitting the Pentagon, and innocent Muslims being framed by W on behalf of Israel.
They'll only get the last part of it fully blaming Bush for 9/11 and that just isn't enough in the alternative reality-based world.
Of the BS MSM networks, ABC seems to be the one that gives the most effort (pitiful as it is) to seem "fair and balanced." For example, they employ John Stossel, and he's gored any number of liberal sacred cows on their dime and airtime.
I'll leave my "LOL, who's wine, what wine, where the hell did I dine" on the table if ya'll believe that.
Y' gotta question the timing of this.
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I suspect a lot of the oldtimers at Disney and ABC are pretty pissed off about this.
One thing that's overlooked that I think may have had an effect:
An ABC journalist has a starring hero role.
If ABC is moving toward the middle you will see it in their news programing. The problem in that industry is that most broadcast news people are already corrupt. You would have to get rid of most of the reporters, producers and writers and start over with young people. CNN, when they first hit the screen, was like a breath of fresh air in contrast to the alphabet networks. But over time they hired the pseudo intellectual airheads from other networks. And Ted Turner married Jane Fonda and started fancying himself as an internationalist. I really would like to see ABC news go back to the Howard K. Smith days.
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Do not fear the enemy, for your enemy can only take your life. It is far better that you fear the press, for they will steal your HONOR. That awful power, the public opinion of a nation, is created in America by a horde of ignorant, self-complacent simpletons who failed at ditching and shoemaking and fetched up in journalism on their way to the poorhouse. -Mark Twain
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Speaking of traitors, today here in America, the media is the government ........... what does it say about the government when the media does not serve the Republic's best purposes?
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Maybe Iger is Scottish.
I would imagine that eventually in our free enterprise system a corporation being in business for gains and not altruistic reasons, would have to realize that continuing to favor one party over the other does not make much business sence, profit is the name of the game.
(No more Olmert! No more Kadima! No more Oslo! )
I thought Iger was the guy with the funny walk in "Young Frankenstein."
".....and start over with young people"
Well they would have to be pretty young since I do not know any journalism school in the country that does not produce leftist journalism majors...
"What hump?"
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