Posted on 08/27/2011 8:21:35 AM PDT by COUNTrecount
It’s fine that NBC made a strategic decision to move to the left, adding blatant bias to its overall coverage. It’s where most of the networks are anyway, only NBC is a little further over on the spectrum. Fox News is conservative – I’d say unabashedly so, except that it pretends to be fair and balanced, which it’s not – and being a conservative network is fine too.
But what’s very disconcerting is having a major TV news network in the tank for a specific politician. This is unprecedented and a little frightening, giving off the noisome air of a nationalized, official government network.
Obama should not have gone last Sunday to the Martha’s Vineyard summer mansion of Brian Roberts, the CEO of Comcast, which owns NBC and MSNBC. And Roberts should not have hosted him. It stinks of collaboration.
Obama didn’t even bother to bring his family along. He paid tribute all on his own, because this was business.
The recent purchase of NBC by Comcast – requiring government approval, which the Obama Justice Department provided in January – put Roberts in the business of at least pretending to provide independent news, even if biased. Independent means not having the president over to your house for a party.
The invaluable website Opensecrets.org, which lives up to its name, yesterday noted that Comcast employees – led by Roberts and his executive team, I would imagine – are bigger donors to Obama than any other company. By far. They’ve given even more to Obama’s reelection effort than any Hollywood company or even Berkshire Hathaway, whose Chairman and CEO Warren Buffett has become a virtual economic spokesman for the White House.
So let’s imagine you are an NBC reporter, and you are thinking of doing a tough story on Obama – I know it seems unlikely, but stay with me here – and then you remember that YOUR BOSS JUST HAD OBAMA OVER TO HIS HOUSE IN MARTHA’S VINEYARD.
And Obama went to him, not the reverse. Are you really going to do a piece that will piss off both the White House and your employer?
But you don’t want to be tagged as just another liberal reporter. You actually want to try to uphold some of the traditional standards of journalism. So maybe you decide to do a piece on Nancy Pelosi, or even some lesser administration figure like Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner.
But not Obama. Because you are reporting for the Obama Broadcasting Corporation, and you know it.
government collusion with corporations is called fascism.
“Fox News is conservative – I’d say unabashedly so, except that it pretends to be fair and balanced, which it’s not – and being a conservative network is fine too. “
Wrong! Their news programing - the actual hard news - is NOT conservative. It is the closest thing to fair and balanced you will find on the air or on cable.
Yes, much of their other programing - opinion, etc. is conservative. But their news programing is pretty darn balanced. It may seem conservative to a liberal but that’s because liberal news programs have not been challenged by anything even approaching fairness.
The sports butt boys for the TOFUS
Obama partying with Comcast execs? Who says this is not a working vacation...
The Left doesn’t consider it fair to be challenged. That’s all you need to know.
FOX news unabashedly conservative?
People aren’t paying much attention if they really believe that.
FOX, in the last couple of years has been moving left inexorably. I’d put them now smack dab in the center with a slight ‘populist’ leaning. Hannity is the only real conservative left there, and sometimes lately I’ve been wondering about him.
You should not put such FOS statements in your lead graph. I stopped right there when I realized you don't know you donkey from a hole in the ground. If you feel you MUST demonstrate your ignorance, you need to do it in the final graph so you can at least get people to read the article before dismissing you as a leftist tool.
From the article:I nearly stopped reading at that point. The author established right there that he is an idiot, and brainwashed by the left. But I'm glad I kept reading to see this.
Fox News is conservative – I’d say unabashedly so, except that it pretends to be fair and balanced, which it’s not
From the article:Not only is the author an idiot, he has been hitting the crack pipe a bit too much.
So let’s imagine you are an NBC reporter, and you are thinking of doing a tough story on Obama – I know it seems unlikely, but stay with me here
I'm sorry I read this. Can I get the last 5 minutes of my life back please?
The death of true journalism as it descends to the rank of purveyor of lies. Josef Goebels, who was Hitler’s minister of propaganda knew this long time ago “If you repeat lies often enough people will begin to believe them” Isn’t it strange that history attempts to repeat itself and we have a person at the helm, no one really knows where he came from, who does his best to make sure we will have a repeat unless enough people wake up and vote him out of office
This is the part that got me laughing!
Indeed Obama&Co. will see many hours in the court room after his term is up it’s going to be a lawyers holiday for for years.
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