How Fox is winning the war (Liberal Hate Piece Masquerading as "Journalism")

Chicago Tribune ^ | April 4, 2003 | Steve Johnson

[Timesink]

How Fox is winning the war

Take dollops of news by comely correspondents, and toss it atop a main dish of attitude led by charismatic, right-leaning hosts

By Steve Johnson
Tribune television critic
Published April 4, 2003

They report. We deride.

We deride Fox News Channel for saying "us" and "our" in talking about the American war effort, a strategy that conjures images of gung-ho anchor Shepard Smith, like Slim Pickens in "Dr. Strangelove," riding a Tomahawk straight into Baghdad.

We deride Fox for playing ratings politics with the news, turning Joint Chiefs Chairman Richard Myers' public call Tuesday for media to be "fair and balanced" into a back-door endorsement, pointing out frequently afterward that the general had echoed a Fox News marketing slogan.

And we deride the channel for the infamous and canny "we report; you decide" slogan, because, I learned all over again after watching five straight hours of Fox News earlier this week, there isn't, comparatively speaking, that much reporting, and because the channel's very point seems to be to reaffirm the opinions of people who have long since decided.

[Timesink]

Hey Johnson, what's it like to know that Steve Doocy's farts reach ten times more people than even know you exist?

[mewzilla]

LOL. How's about some French cheese to go with your whine, Johnson?

[friendly]

Hey Johnson, what's it like to know that Steve Doocy's farts reach ten times more people than even know you exist?

Laugh-Coughed up my coffee all over the screen.

[Puppage]

By Steve Johnson

Somebody wasn't breast-fed

[mewzilla]

Hope Doocy sees that line.

[UCFRoadWarrior]

Sounds like liberal sour grapes. They know their monopoly on information is over.

I rather have a US network cheer for the Coalition than US networks cheering for Saddam (which is what the liberal media is doing)

[o_zarkman44]

Hey Johnson! Why don't you just go over there so you can give us YOUR perspective on how a war is run if you think it is so easy? Has anyone coined the phrase "armchair journalist"? I think in this case it certainly applies! LOL

[Dog Gone]

Hey, Fox had a live broadcast of the biggest driveby shooting in world history as Greg Kelly rode through Baghdad.

It doesn't get any better than that!

[BenLurkin]

Two clowns on MSNBC last night were smirking at Bush's support in the polls, slyly implying that the numbers will plummet if and when something goes sour in "his war".

They also mocked the poll numbers of those who understand the link between Saddam and terror saying more than once that there is "no proof" of "a link" between Saddam and 9-11.

[Timesink]

Has anyone coined the phrase "armchair journalist"?

Note this guy is the TV "critic," which is about a half step above the obit page on the newspaper ladder. It's almost an insult to journalists to lump him in with the rest of them.

Note I said "almost."

[Zipporah]

"We deride Fox News Channel for saying "us" and "our" in talking about the American war effort"..

Seems unlike the Tribune.. Fox recognizes that it IS "us" ..that they are UNITED STATES citizens.. guess that Chicago isn't a part of the US.. that their audience isn't in the US.. So it's "right-leaning" to be a US citizen.. what a crock.

[Clean_Sweep]

This piece demonstrates exactly why FOX will always Kick Their A$$. "(for saying "us" and "our" in talking about the American war effort,)"

It is our freekin war fool!!

[mewzilla]

Well, the guy does work for the Trib. Self-loathing is part of the job description.

[DudleyDoright]

And we deride the channel for the infamous and canny "we report; you decide" slogan, because, I learned all over again after watching five straight hours of Fox News earlier this week, there isn't, comparatively speaking, that much reporting, and because the channel's very point seems to be to reaffirm the opinions of people who have long since decided.

"Opinons of people who have long since decided." You mean like ABC, NBC, CBS, Al Jeerazza, and MSNBC?

If you look up the definition of "total tool," there is a picture of this Johnson guy..

[Savage Beast]

The phrase "Liberal hate" is redundant.

[Always Right]

It is shocking that an American News channel might favor the American point of view. Americans should be outraged that someone reports the war from their viewpoint. Outraged I tell you. The anti-American Jew-hating communist dictator point of view must be heard!

[najida]

He sounds jealous of Fox.

[Oldeconomybuyer]

[abclily]

Comparing Shepard Smith to Slim Pickins is a prime example of the childish condescension of jealous liberal writers who resent having the fabrications they fed to the public all these years replaced by truth, facts, and figures from Fox News.

[TruthWillWin]

And the other networks, in the words of the ex congress woman from Colorado, "Just don't get it"!

Isn't it great.