Fox Portrays a War of Good and Evil, and Many Applaud

The New York Times ^ | December 3, 2001 | Jim Rutenberg

[Timesink]

Heh heh heh...

[KQQL]

This means NYT knows FNC is kicking butt,

[Rubber Duckie]

Fox News Channel is the incarnation of a school of thought that the morally neutral practice of journalism is now inappropriate.

What a crock from the New York Slimes! They are just mad because the leftwing monopoly on broadcast journalism is being eroded by Fox.

Dammit, this is a War of Good and Evil. Can the flacks at Reuters, AP and the lamestream media cite one single positive thing the Bin Laden has produced? Hand-outs to buy support do not count.

[GeronL]

, is "a dirtbag," "a monster" overseeing a "web of hate." His followers in Al Qaeda are "terror goons." Taliban fighters are "diabolical" and "henchmen."

I love unbiased reporting. =o)

[lavaroise]

. In the process, Fox has pushed television news where it has never gone before: to unabashed and vehement support of a war effort, carried in tough-guy declarations often expressing thirst for revenge.

I see, and the NYT is all so reasonable with its tacit support of terrorists demanding we repent for our "thirst for revenge".

There, there, now, now, America is dreaming of fantasy world and the NYT is capitalising on it. Repent to the NYT, your fantasy leader.

[IoCaster]

"Look, we understand the enemy — they've made themselves clear: they want to murder us," he said. "We don't sit around and get all gooey and wonder if these people have been misunderstood in their childhood. If they're going to try to kill us, that's bad."

Ailes gets straight to the point, eh?

:o)

[rocknotsand]

The liberals' poster boys at CNN/ABC/NBC better see the big picture. With a republican POTUS, and a new era, their news anchor 'internationalist' demeaner is on the nose. As is the UN and internationalism/globalism generally. Surely we don't want the CNN-international one size fits all anchor? We want anchors we can identify with. We don't want Ananovas. Surely the CNN position, extrapolated for another decade into the liberal utopian UN future, would result in a talking head that has no easily disernable national origin. Non-ethnicity, non-nationalist. I can envisage the CNN news being broadcast -eventually- from Ted Turner's own suite/studio in the UN building in NYC.

I like that motto Be Accurate, Be Fair, Be American. By inference, he says that the others are unAmerican. T or F? Methinks True.

[patriciaruth]

is "a dirtbag," "a monster" overseeing a "web of hate." His followers in Al Qaeda are "terror goons." Taliban fighters are "diabolical" and "henchmen."

Second the motion. Sounds like fair and balanced reporting to me, too.

[goldstategop]

No wonder the masses are switching to FOX News in droves. Its a view of war that's refreshing. For once we have journalists who can be objective and remember they're Americans at the same time. Why does the New York Times think its inappropriate for our media to be patriotic? I'm frankly tired of the liberal media's whining about how we're going too far, how we're not being sensitive enough to the terrorists plight, and that we just don't care. We damn well do care about America and our troops. Freepers and Friends we've got a war to win and a country to defend. Huzzah, Huzzah!!! :-)

[68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub]

News Corporation List of Companies, Chairman and Chief Executive: K. Rupert Murdoch

[kcvl]

David Westin, the president of ABC News, said it was important for his journalists to maintain their neutrality in times of war

I hope EVERYONE remembers ABC News', David Westin, thinks "journalists" should be NEUTRAL in a time of war against the United States of America(where OUR men and women are fighting to give him the right to FREE SPEECH to say such IGNORANT things). Maybe David Westin would like to tell that to the families of 5,000 dead or maybe Mike Spann's family. Maybe he should also tell that to David Asman on Fox News whose son is fighting in this war!!!

Ivory Tower Limousine Liberals will NEVER get it! I could care less why anyone hates us and wants to kill our families. I just know that it is EVIL. America is GOOD to EVERYONE(until you fly planes into our buildings). Even while we're fighting a war we try to feed the same people who have been under assault by the Taliban. Hell, I guess David Westin thinks we should throw our hands up and say here take our country just don't take my million dollar job in television because I'm NEUTRAL. That sure didn't help the journalists who were MURDERED by these CRAZY animals.

The New York Times has been doing HIT pieces on Fox News ever since they started beating the crap out of all the other so-called NEWS media.

[arielb]

CNN is miserable dreck no doubt about it. But if breaking news occurs somewhere in the world, I usually find O'reilly, Hannity and Judith Regan (ugh!) on FNC instead of hearing about the real news. That's why I think MSNBC is the best. It's pretty balanced, Matthews is a liberal but not so much that you can never agree with him all the time and their National Geographic specials are very good. Fox can't really compete with CNBC on financial news either.

[AntiScumbag]

i agree westin and his ilk, for decades and no matter what the issue, have always fed the alligator, hoping that it'll eat him last

[Clinton's a rapist]

The New York Times has been doing HIT pieces on Fox News ever since they started beating the crap out of all the other so-called NEWS media.

Guess they've seen the writing on the wall. Couldn't happen to a more deserving bunch of commie losers.

[Peter W. Kessler]

Alex S. Jones, the director of the Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy at Harvard University, said that by reporting the news with such an American perspective, Fox News was failing to explain the evolution of the other side's motivation against the United States.

Can anyone here imagine the furor that would've been created had the media tried to explain the evolution of the Japanese motivation against the United States in January, 1942?

What a bunch of whores, with apologies to whores.

[kim r.]

hear hear well-said!

[Neets]

In the final analysis, Mr. Ailes said, "I don't believe that democracy and terrorism are relative things you can talk about, and I don't think there's any moral equivalence in those two positions." He added: "If that makes me a bad guy, tough luck. I'm still getting the ratings."

Hee hee hee hee heee

[Green Knight]

Exactly. I find it telling that at a time of war, after 4,000+ innocent Americans were murdered, the best they can muster is NEUTRALITY. They hate America so much that even after such an enormous slaughter, they STILL can't support America. They can only be neutral. And even at a time like this, their Anti-Americanism creeps back from time to time. (Like not allowing people on air to wear American flag lapels, or writing hit pieces on FOX News, which has always been Pro-America.) Even with fellow reporters being murdered by the Taliban, they still can't bring themselves to be anything more than neutral in this conflict.

These people make me sick to the pit of my stomach.

[PogySailor]

Bump!

[Miss Marple]

Somehow, I think this article is meant to have us look at Fox News with disdain. Instead, anyone with a shred of patriotism who reads this and who didn't know about Fox News will be moving heaven and earth to get that channel.

Heheheh.