I can FReep from anywhere.
Posted on 08/03/2007 4:04:35 AM PDT by lowbridge
Edited on 08/03/2007 4:16:59 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
This morning only a couple of minutes before 5am, I was surfing around when I came upon Fox News. Bill O'Reilly was closing out his show with him reading off a few viewers emails and him giving a small response to each one. One of them defended FreeRepublic, saying that doing a search, Daily Kos had thousands of certain cuss words, and FR had none. O'Reilly's response to that was: "FreeRepublic Needs A Monitor. It Has None." (And then he moved on to another email)
"..Alan Novak, Wichita, KS: "Comparing the Free Republic to the Daily Kos, I searched the F-word. Daily Kos, almost seven thousand mentions. Free Republic, none.""
Good example of that is the O'Reilly charge of "hate" when his people found the string of characters, "I hate blacks" on FR. Never mind that it was a substring of a column title ("Why I Hate Blacks") in a San Francisco Asian publication. The FR thread was discussing the column and its author. Fox News John Gibson interviewed the author, cannot it be said that Fox News is a "hate" organization? Go figure.
Because the MSM is lazy and getting LA Tired of dealing with a real grassroots think tank? Oh...to revel in the old days when the sheeple just took their medicine and liked it with no talking back.
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I couldn't agree more. I think this entire incident is a combination of two things:
1. Bill is a Luddite and has no understanding of the internet.
2. He thought he could get some attention that would translate into better ratings for his show.
Oh, for crying out loud! Must we now also ban "Looter Guy" because it offends a few people who were caught looting in New Orleans?
“Bill thinks all the internet should be monitored and policed with NEW laws.”
Naive, I am. However, and I don’t dispute your statement, I need a bit more before I can digest this as truth. If true then, for me, it means the end of Bill as a voice of reason.
I have noticed that his arrogance has, on occassion, compromised his capacity to deal fairly with issues.
Having said the above, in what manner, specifically, has Bill proposed to legislate the internet? In other words, what law has he proposed? After all if it is merely his thought that sites should better monitor themselves by using outside monitors or whatever that is all together different than proposing to pass laws to monitor sites.
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Agree with you - the MSM does not like being held to account by what it considers to be hords of heathen upstarts. However, I’d just as soon not do the old “drive by reporting” that the MSM is accused of and which sites like this consistently expose which of course is why the MSM does not favor this format.
So, I just want verification/clarification of Bill’s intent or meaning.
Agree with you - the MSM does not like being held to account by what it considers to be hords of heathen upstarts. However, I’d just as soon not do the old “drive by reporting” that the MSM is accused of and which sites like this consistently expose which of course is why the MSM does not favor this format.
So, I just want verification/clarification of Bill’s intent or meaning.
Bill is not proposing a new law...he is preparing the soil for it's planting. Isn't that what all good "journalists" do nowadays?
If you can listen to his radio program from yesterday you will hear that is what he said.
I don’t know if you can get it without being a premium factor member.
You don’t have to take my word for it, but I tell ya I listened yesterday and that is what he said.
No more radio factor for me. period
OReily is just threatened by “amature journalists”. He thinks the “professional” journalists are much better at telling you what is important.
OReily is just parroting what Elton John is demanding, “shut down the internet.” There are too many people doing my job.
FR does Oreily’s job 100% better, more efficiently, without commercial interuption, and subject to far more credible peer review.
Oreily is a tabloid TV hack. Yellow journalism, ambush interviews, and fake controversies (ala M.Moore) are his stock and trade.
His brain is like any other talking hairstyle, dedicated to protect ratings NOT inform the public. FR is a threat to him and must be attacked. Remember he was attacking Rush around the time his radio show was taking off. Is it still even going or does he still have to pay to be on air?
At my age getting a spanking from the Mods is like being sent to my high school principal for three smoking hot licks.
No Mr. O’Really we have plenty of Mod supervision along with a few Wannabe Mods and a few Petty Nitpickers, Perpetual Grouches and the Habitually Offended to keep watch over wayward comments.
In my lowly red state wannabe opinion, I would not change what works.
However, our FReeper system will not work on liberal web sites since their belief values are somewhere below muck diving status.
Just ignore him the more contact you have with him the more imoortant he thinks he becomes.
You forgot about the spelling police and the grammar editors....there are thousands of them. I should know. LOL.
So what he’s saying is that FR needs a “fairness doctrine.” O’Reilly needs a monitor. He’s about as verbally abusive in his on-air comments and name-calling, than anything that could be written on FR. People who live in glass houses Bill, shouldn’t throw stones. I guess it’s easier to point the finger at others instead of admitting your own deficiencies in this area.
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