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Wow, is this serious? Apparently a low-level FNC assistant commented to John McCain during a red carpet event that she had voted for him in the primary - a comment that McCain was quick to rebuke. I mean, I guess it is bad for a journalist to reveal anything less than objective views on political matters (other than communist Olbermann), but come on, do you think she should have been fired??
1 posted on 05/09/2008 11:28:27 AM PDT by GPSkins
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“Apparently a low-level FNC assistant commented to John McCain during a red carpet event that she had voted for him in the primary “

Welcome to Amerika.


38 posted on 05/09/2008 12:05:37 PM PDT by Hacklehead (Crush the liberals, see them driven before you, and hear the lamentation of the hippies.)
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But Barbara Walters can SLEEP with a sitting Senator and avoid criticism?


39 posted on 05/09/2008 12:12:05 PM PDT by Mr. Brightside
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A bit harsh...


46 posted on 05/09/2008 12:54:06 PM PDT by Doctor Raoul (Fire the CIA and hire the Free Clinic, someone who knows how to stop leaks.)
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Until the advent of the Associated Press in the middle of the Nineteenth Century, newspapers were openly partisan affairs. Hamilton and Jefferson each sponsored a newspaper to politically attack the other - and that was not considered untoward at all.

But the Associated Press was a monopoly, and as such it naturally raised some eyebrows early on. But the AP responded to that challenge by asserting that "we have newspapers of all stripes of opinion; we're not biased, we're objective."

Apart from the blatant hubris of claiming the wisdom to be able to be objective, the fallacy in that was the fact that the editorial page content was no longer the most important opinion expressed in an AP newspaper. Those famously contradictory political opinions were overshadowed by the planted axiom of AP journalism - that all journalists were objective. That is, it no longer made business sense for newspapers to compete on the accuracy of their coverage; to that extent they were no longer competitors. Any more than the Yankees and the Red Sox are competitors when they are trying to promote attendance at baseball games. Any more than ABC News and NBC News tried to run CBS News out of the business over the 60 Minutes episode using of the fraudulent "Killian Memos . . . and subsequent stonewalling."

The Market for Conservative-Based News


48 posted on 05/09/2008 1:08:11 PM PDT by conservatism_IS_compassion (Thomas Sowell for President)
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So much for free speech. The four-eyed faggot, Keith Olbermann, does not make any secret that he’s voting for Obama. He just did not come right out and say it.


50 posted on 05/09/2008 2:03:39 PM PDT by no dems (The Democrats destroying each other gives me moments of pleasureable reflections.)
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