The news lied to me!
I just watched a very interesting video on youtube (and no, it didn't involve unicorns):
The video talks about the Florida reporters who were fired for refusing to lie for Fox News. The courts upheld that Fox was not required to tell the truth.
I'm torn by this. I tend to think (outside of libel/slander), that a person can say what they want. Maybe this ruling can be a wake up call to the public to start questioning what they see from the media.
For all it's cheesiness, Running Man did have some very interesting scenes. When the broadcasters were "photoshopping" events to twist them to match what they wanted to show, it now seems more prophetic than I could have imagined. For fun - try googling for reuters photoshop.
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I saw the interview with the two reporters a few months ago. It pretty much reconfirmed the reasons why I don't watch Fox news.
Although notice at the end that other media organizations filed 'friend of the something or another' briefs. Fox was not alone in this.
# Posted By Raymond Camden
| 9/17/06 1:24 PM
anyone remember this line from a movie**?
"I'm as mad as hell and I'm not going to take this anymore!"
thank heavens we have (well watched) programs like
http://www.abc.net.au/mediawatch/
just 2c, nothing more.
(BTW, delivered by Peter Finch, Australian actor)
"I'm as mad as hell and I'm not going to take this anymore!"
thank heavens we have (well watched) programs like
http://www.abc.net.au/mediawatch/
just 2c, nothing more.
(BTW, delivered by Peter Finch, Australian actor)
# Posted By barry.b
| 9/17/06 7:58 PM
So... this means that we should reject everything they say about the gulf war also? LOL (Bottom line, they market the news. You can't tell what is truth and what is not by the integrity of the reporter unless you truely know the reporter.) I will state that there are religious news channels that taint the news to the same degree as secular news. Truth is, the love of money is the root of all evil. When money is a tool, it's a great servant. When money is a goal it's a poor master! ( IMO )
# Posted By John Farrar
| 9/17/06 8:31 PM
Fox lies on their news. The AP lies on theirs. Reuters lies on theirs. the BBC is just about all lies. None of this surprises me anymore.
An AP photographer was found 'embeded' DEEP in with 'insurgents' in Iraq and the AP wants to bury the fact while defending the guy.
CNN says that the historical fact of Islam's spread by the sword in its early history is just a "Christian view".
Reuters continues to defend their photo-manipulated news to the point of absurdity.
And on and on and on.
There is no standard for truth in news, no one to force the news outlets to speak the truth and no one who really cares (in power, that is). I'm watching a case in France where some whistle-blowers are being brought to court for showing proof that the French national TV channel used a forged news piece. They, and the other news outlets will only admit to being wrong when they have no choice and even then will fight it.
Truth, the first casualty of war, peace, diplomacy and ratings.
An AP photographer was found 'embeded' DEEP in with 'insurgents' in Iraq and the AP wants to bury the fact while defending the guy.
CNN says that the historical fact of Islam's spread by the sword in its early history is just a "Christian view".
Reuters continues to defend their photo-manipulated news to the point of absurdity.
And on and on and on.
There is no standard for truth in news, no one to force the news outlets to speak the truth and no one who really cares (in power, that is). I'm watching a case in France where some whistle-blowers are being brought to court for showing proof that the French national TV channel used a forged news piece. They, and the other news outlets will only admit to being wrong when they have no choice and even then will fight it.
Truth, the first casualty of war, peace, diplomacy and ratings.
# Posted By Michael Dinowitz
| 9/18/06 4:07 AM
LOL, CNN must have missed coverage of 9/11 then. CNN must have missed covering Hamas in stirring up the recent war with Isreal. Now granted, like Christians there are different factions (beliefs and interpretations) inside Islam like there are inside Christianity and any other religion/faith. Those who think they are becoming martyrs by blowing themselves up are another example that it isn't just a Christian belief. I can understand someone questioning if it's true just because a group says it is. Yet, my point is simple. It's obviously believed by a number of those claiming to be part of the global Jihad (if that is how you spell it in English.) CNN if they believe that need to wake up.
(NOTE: I do not think that the radical belief is common among all Islam. Or else the term 'radical' would not be attached to those who hold onto Israel's soldiers till this day and cause their own people to suffer to make a point!)
(NOTE: I do not think that the radical belief is common among all Islam. Or else the term 'radical' would not be attached to those who hold onto Israel's soldiers till this day and cause their own people to suffer to make a point!)
I couldn't watch the videos since the IT people have youtube blocked here at work, but I'm willing to bet those clips are from a documentary called "Outfoxed: Rupert Murdoch's War on Journalism". You should definitely check it out, if you get the chance. That particular incident doesn't even begin to show their perversion of the news.
# Posted By tsuukai
| 9/18/06 9:12 AM
McNeil Lehrer and C-span are about the only place to get decent news reporting.
# Posted By Mike Rankin
| 9/18/06 9:22 AM
To Mike Rankins list of honorable newscast I would like to add Keith Olbermann.
# Posted By Michael Brennan-White
| 9/18/06 9:46 AM
I don't personally think that ANY news organization has a LEGAL responsibility to tell the truth (and lets be honest, every news organization in the world - or at least the U.S. - slants the news to fit their political 'slant'....from CNN to MSNBC to FOX to........). However, if their caught simply spinning baloney, then I would *hope* that Americans would vote w/ their remote controls....
But then again, this is a country where the pet rock sold MILLIONS of units. So nobody ever claimed we were a country of brain surgeons.... FOX could come out tomorrow and say - 80% of what we've reported in the last 5 years has been garbage, and you'd still have the Limbaughs of the world that point to the other 20% and claim it was the most accurate reporting available. And believe me (I am a died-in-the-wool conservative), CNN has its apologists, too.
But then again, this is a country where the pet rock sold MILLIONS of units. So nobody ever claimed we were a country of brain surgeons.... FOX could come out tomorrow and say - 80% of what we've reported in the last 5 years has been garbage, and you'd still have the Limbaughs of the world that point to the other 20% and claim it was the most accurate reporting available. And believe me (I am a died-in-the-wool conservative), CNN has its apologists, too.
# Posted By Neil Bailey
| 9/18/06 10:26 AM
God thats despressing.... thankfully I dont watch Fox, NBC, CBS, CNN, etc... i get my cup of world insanity from NPR
# Posted By Josh
| 9/19/06 3:30 PM
Hahahahahaha, because NPR doesn't have THE single most liberal slant in the country.... I don't, as a rule, listen to NPR, so I can't speak to their veracity. But I have listened enough to know that NPR has even more of a liberal slant than MSNBC or CNN.
Don't get me wrong - Fox goes just as hard the other way (fair and balanced my ass), but don't throw NPR into the ring as a 'non-slanted' news source.
Don't get me wrong - Fox goes just as hard the other way (fair and balanced my ass), but don't throw NPR into the ring as a 'non-slanted' news source.
# Posted By Neil Bailey
| 9/19/06 5:35 PM
I'm feeling a little sick right now.