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How Fox is winning the war (Liberal Hate Piece Masquerading as "Journalism")
Chicago Tribune ^ | April 4, 2003 | Steve Johnson

Posted on 04/06/2003 7:45:37 AM PDT by 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.

(Excerpt) Read more at chicagotribune.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: chicagotribune; fnc; fox; foxnews; foxnewschannel; foxnewsratings; iraqifreedom; liberalbias; liberalhate; mediabias; mediahysteria; televisedwar
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Hey Johnson, what's it like to know that Steve Doocy's farts reach ten times more people than even know you exist?
1 posted on 04/06/2003 7:45:38 AM PDT by Timesink
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LOL. How's about some French cheese to go with your whine, Johnson?
2 posted on 04/06/2003 7:47:15 AM PDT by mewzilla
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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.

3 posted on 04/06/2003 7:47:26 AM PDT by friendly
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By Steve Johnson

Somebody wasn't breast-fed

4 posted on 04/06/2003 7:47:38 AM PDT by Puppage (You may disagree with what I have to say, but I will defend to your death my right to say it)
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Hope Doocy sees that line.
5 posted on 04/06/2003 7:48:28 AM PDT by mewzilla
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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)
6 posted on 04/06/2003 7:48:43 AM PDT by UCFRoadWarrior (Our Troops....Our Heroes)
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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
7 posted on 04/06/2003 7:51:35 AM PDT by o_zarkman44
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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!

8 posted on 04/06/2003 7:52:26 AM PDT by Dog Gone
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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.

9 posted on 04/06/2003 7:52:54 AM PDT by BenLurkin (Remember the 507th!)
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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."

10 posted on 04/06/2003 7:55:53 AM PDT by Timesink (When was the last time YOU remembered we're on Code Orange?)
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"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.

11 posted on 04/06/2003 8:00:01 AM PDT by Zipporah
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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!!
12 posted on 04/06/2003 8:00:22 AM PDT by Clean_Sweep
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Well, the guy does work for the Trib. Self-loathing is part of the job description.
13 posted on 04/06/2003 8:01:52 AM PDT by mewzilla
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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..
14 posted on 04/06/2003 8:04:35 AM PDT by DudleyDoright
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The phrase "Liberal hate" is redundant.
15 posted on 04/06/2003 8:05:31 AM PDT by Savage Beast
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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!
16 posted on 04/06/2003 8:06:39 AM PDT by Always Right
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He sounds jealous of Fox.
17 posted on 04/06/2003 8:06:46 AM PDT by najida (Ignorance is temporary, but stupidity is forever.)
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18 posted on 04/06/2003 8:08:08 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer (Let's Roll)
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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.
19 posted on 04/06/2003 8:08:12 AM PDT by abclily
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And the other networks, in the words of the ex congress woman from Colorado, "Just don't get it"!

Isn't it great.

20 posted on 04/06/2003 8:08:36 AM PDT by TruthWillWin
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