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Journalists Debated Whether Government Should Shut Down Fox News
Fox News ^ | 7/21/10 | Fox News

Posted on 07/21/2010 9:37:34 AM PDT by Ballygrl

A group of liberal journalists used a now-defunct listserv to debate the merits of whether the federal government should forcibly shut down Fox News, according to a report in The Daily Caller.

The online publication earlier reported that the journalists in the private group discussed ways to shield Barack Obama from the Rev. Jeremiah Wright scandal when Obama was a presidential candidate. The latest article showed that several members of Journolist aired complaints about Fox News on the listserv in March of this year and debated how best to rein it in.

Guardian columnist Daniel Davies, who said he was "genuinely scared" of the network, reportedly said "peer pressure" and "self-regulation" were not working.

"In order to have even a semblance of control, you need a tough legal framework," he said.

According to the report, UCLA law professor Jonathan Zasloff urged the federal government to stop the network.

"I hate to open this can of worms, but is there any reason why the FCC couldn't simply pull their broadcasting permit once it expires?" he wrote.

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TOPICS: Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 1makinglist; checkingit2x; democrats; enemedia; journolist; leftganda; leftyganda; liberalfascism; liberalmedia; liberalprogressivism; mediaelite; mediafascism; msm; obamedai; obamedia; pravdamedia
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To: IamConservative

>>I just cannot grasp why there are some citizens in the United States that just beg to live in tyranny. I just don’t get it. They don’t appreciate freedom.<<

Because “freedom” means responsibility and having to face the results of your own (potentially bad) decisions. Today’s electorate has been brought up in a “no matter what it is someone else’s fault” frame of mind. Freedom cannot exist in that mindset.


21 posted on 07/21/2010 9:58:00 AM PDT by freedumb2003 (The frog who accepts a ride from a scorpion should expect a sting and the phrase "it is my nature.")
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To: Pete

Scratch a liberal, find a Fascist.


22 posted on 07/21/2010 9:58:17 AM PDT by Lurker (The avalanche has begun. The pebbles no longer have a vote.)
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To: Ballygrl

This is getting good.


23 posted on 07/21/2010 9:59:56 AM PDT by tobyhill
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To: Bryanw92
Our two cultures are no longer compatible.

I tend to agree. The left seem to think the government is the solution to everything. Saw on Freeper comment (and I don't recall who): "The bigger the government, the smaller the citizen."

24 posted on 07/21/2010 10:02:46 AM PDT by IamConservative (You older gentleman ever sit on your testicles? WOW, that hurts!!)
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To: Psycho_Bunny

I have only one question to ask, who died and why do these morons think they should be in charge?


25 posted on 07/21/2010 10:09:57 AM PDT by OldBullrider (if yur hurt, rub some dirt on it, and get back to work)
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To: Ballygrl

MEDIA= Most EVIL Democrats In America.


26 posted on 07/21/2010 10:15:59 AM PDT by F.J. Mitchell (If Obama doesn't destroy America, she is indestructible.)
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To: Ballygrl
As far as the WH pulling press credentials, they better be very careful what they ask for. Libs will not smell up the WH forever and a real Conservative will be return.
27 posted on 07/21/2010 10:19:03 AM PDT by submarinerswife (Obama, the Fresh Prince of Bill Ayers)
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To: F.J. Mitchell
Correction: “Most Extreme Democrats In America.”
28 posted on 07/21/2010 10:23:05 AM PDT by F.J. Mitchell (If Obama doesn't destroy America, she is indestructible.)
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To: OldBullrider
An excerpt from a coming novel Revelation:Revolution by Anthony James, constributing author at "StopTheACLU" and several conservative blogs and websites.

When the ball goes up, and it will, if all goes according to Hoyle, the first to be addressed are the enablers who served us this totalitarian Marxist regime on a platter of their own making... the Elite Media. They deserve to be the first to go.

Then, their string-pulling puppetmasters from Chicago. Off with their heads!

Next, the rest of the Beltway establishemnt that either aided and abetted the Commie Cabal, or stood idly by as the scam was wrought on the entire country.

Last will be the removal of all 9 Supreme Court shills, who have routinely hidden from and shirked their responsibility RE: the reviewing of Hussein's Eligibility as a Natural Born Citizen. They have based this refusal on the thin ice of the plaintiffs' lack of "standing." There is no man or woman alive in America who does not have legitimate "standing" to request, and expect to receive, this inquiry. Firing Squad times nine.

There, that's done.

Then we begin to rebuild using the Constitution again for the first time in decades.

;-/

29 posted on 07/21/2010 10:27:51 AM PDT by Gargantua (DON'T TREAD ON US.)
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To: F.J. Mitchell

I refuse to call these people ‘journalists’. From now on, they are to be known as Communists posing as ‘journalists’.


30 posted on 07/21/2010 10:30:02 AM PDT by Lazamataz ("We beat the Soviet Union. Then we became them." -- Lazamataz, 2005)
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To: mo

Love it! oh and I stole that LOL.


31 posted on 07/21/2010 10:30:27 AM PDT by Ballygrl
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To: IamConservative

Because they intend to be the tyrants.


32 posted on 07/21/2010 10:31:34 AM PDT by massgopguy (I owe everything to George Bailey)
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To: Ballygrl

Isn’t it amazing that they think that a free press is something that should not exist.


33 posted on 07/21/2010 10:33:18 AM PDT by chris_bdba
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To: Psycho_Bunny

I think in this case the word”journalists” needdss to be renamed journaLIEsts.


34 posted on 07/21/2010 10:37:12 AM PDT by chris_bdba
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To: Psycho_Bunny

I think in this case the word”journalists” needs to be renamed journaLIEsts.


35 posted on 07/21/2010 10:37:35 AM PDT by chris_bdba
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To: snarkbait
It’s wonderful when ‘journalists’ (et al) put their ignorance on display for all to see...

Indeed....unfortunately, judging by the last 2 election cycles, they have a mass following of ignorance with which to tap into.

36 posted on 07/21/2010 10:39:30 AM PDT by RckyRaCoCo
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To: IamConservative

“I just cannot grasp why there are some citizens in the United States that just beg to live in tyranny.”

Because they intend to be the tyrants, and the tyrants live good.


37 posted on 07/21/2010 10:47:46 AM PDT by keats5 (Not all of us are hypnotized.)
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To: Ballygrl

>> “I hate to open this can of worms, but is there any reason why the FCC couldn’t simply pull their broadcasting permit once it expires?” he wrote. <<

Hehehe. Psssst. Mr Law Professor: Fox News doesn’t need a broadcast permit. About 40 years ago, they invented this neat little thing called cable TV.


38 posted on 07/21/2010 10:52:28 AM PDT by dangus
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To: Ballygrl

1. Ezra Klein
2. Dave Weigel
3. Matthew Yglesias
4. David Dayen
5. Spencer Ackerman
6. Jeffrey Toobin
7. Eric Alterman
8. Paul Krugman
9. John Judis
10. Eve Fairbanks
11. Mike Allen
12. Ben Smith
13. Lisa Lerer
14. Joe Klein
15. Brad DeLong
16. Chris Hayes
17. Matt Duss
18. Jonathan Chait
19. Jesse Singal
20. Michael Cohen
21. Isaac Chotiner
22. Katha Pollitt
23. Alyssa Rosenberg
24. Rick Perlstein
25. Alex Rossmiller
26. Ed Kilgore
27. Walter Shapiro
28. Noam Scheiber
29. Michael Tomasky
30. Rich Yesels
31. Tim Fernholz
32. Dana Goldstein
33. Jonathan Cohn
34. Scott Winship

Sources:
(http://www.politicsdaily.com/2010/06/25/the-death-of-journolist-does-privacy-end-at-the-edge-of-your-th/)
(http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0309/20086.html)
(http://yglesias.thinkprogress.org/2010/06/after-journolist)
(http://hotair.com/archives/2009/03/17/politico-the-secret-liberal-journalist-cabal/)
(http://www.slate.com/blogs/blogs/kausfiles/archive/2009/03/26/journolist-revealed-inside-the-liberal-media-email-cabal.aspx)
(http://justoneminute.typepad.com/main/2009/03/who-doesnt-love-the-journolist.html)
(http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/michaeltomasky/2010/jun/25/usa)
(http://www.frumforum.com/the-inside-scoop-on-journolist)
(http://twitter.com/TimFernholz)
(http://twitter.com/DanaGoldstein)
(http://www.talkleft.com/story/2009/9/22/142845/064?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TalkleftThePoliticsOfCrime+%28TalkLeft%3A+The+Politics+of+Crime%29)
(http://www.frumforum.com/responding-to-john-hawkins)


39 posted on 07/21/2010 10:55:34 AM PDT by BuckeyeTexan (There are those that break and bend. I'm the other kind.)
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To: Lazamataz; Arthur Wildfire! March

Urinalists who graduated from various left wing “ Schools of Urinalism “


40 posted on 07/21/2010 11:10:54 AM PDT by stephenjohnbanker (Support our Troops, and vote out the RINOS!)
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