Howard Kurtz: FOX "should be apologizing for using partisan propaganda"
CNN's Howard Kurtz takes FOX News to task for trying to pass off RNC propaganda as actual reporting....and then refusing to admit the egregious error in their so-called "correction" after getting caught red-handed by MediaMatters.
FOX ANCHOR: In compiling that story, our producers and researchers did what they always do, we verified the accuracy of the material. But in double-checking the newspaper quotes referenced in that news release, we made the same mistake they did: we labelled the Wall Street Journal article as having run in 2009, when in fact it was 2008. That was our error and we apologize.
KURTZ: Come on. You shouldn't be apologizing for that, even if we were to buy that it was a coincidence that you happened to make the same mistake on the date of the article. You should be apologizing for using partisan propaganda from the GOP without telling your viewers where it came from. Talk about missing the point.
CNN calls out Faux noose for being propagandists?
Will wonders never cease?
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Hell experiences record cold snap!!!
LeftandLeft was polite!!!!
Nice!!!
Is there a time when Faux isn't repeating GOP propaganda verbatim?
When is it? In the 4:30 am time slot? I musta missed it.
Mayor Bernero rips Neil a new one.
A must see!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a-nLS6FJtSM
Thom Hartmann: Must see! The TRUE story of the Boston Tea Party
thanks for the link. I enjoyed that thoroughly, except for the condescending remarks of the "host" at the end saying it isn't a campaign speech and the Mayor should calm down. CALM DOWN MY A$$!!!!
He's as angry as the rest of us and we have been burying our feelings for too long. It's time to make noise!
Hah! Fox shoots themselves in the foot, and then apologizes for wearing the wrong shoe size.
Idiots.
in his Washington Post column next.
"I mean Romney is the most conservative on illegal immigration and I don't think Ronald Reagan could get elected in California today."
Ann "Clipped" Coulter
Considering Kurtz and the rest of the MSM had their collective heads up their ass about the neo-cons for the previous 8 years, this is the media equivalent of an epiphany.
Democratic Party progressive, Vietnam veteran and proud Union member for 41 years
Given Howie's decided propensity toward ignoring the endless offenses of the Right while pounding gleefully on the Left,I'd have to agree.
"To me, truth is not some vague, foggy notion. Truth is real. And,
at the same time, unreal. Fiction and fact and everything in between,
plus some things I can't remember, all rolled into one big "thing."
This is truth, to me. "
-Jack Handy
Neither Fox nor CNN are serving the people. It's like watching the Harlem Globetrotters. Let's get to the real truth and do the job they are pretending to do. Uncover the issues they are ignoring. This is a sham, a shell game, to pretend like they are journalists. They are entertainment just like the Globetrotters were. This is a farce.
We need to honor true and real investigative journalism and not push it away as conspiracy anytime you hear something you don't like.
CNN is worse in some ways than Fox, with its slyly reported disinformation, masquerading as news.
Thom Hartmann: Must see! The TRUE story of the Boston Tea Party
If Fox News apologized for using partisan propaganda they'd need to start a whole nother network just to have the air time for all the apologizing.
CNN calls out Fox; meanwhile, Lou Dobb spews Mexican-Ameican hatred. Pot calling Kettle Black ring a bell.
border wall and shove it up his ass. It is an environmental disaster. But the idiots who are building it don't give a damn about birds or animals, all they want is their side to win regardless of what it does to destroy the planet.
Thank you, Jo!! I have been railing about the environmental disaster the wall is/will be for years, with no one listening. It's good to know there are others out there that realize this as well.
What if Jawn Cornyn and his unnamed companion end up on the other side of that wall from you?
"I mean Romney is the most conservative on illegal immigration and I don't think Ronald Reagan could get elected in California today."
Ann "Clipped" Coulter
Maybe you should try something else...just sayin.
of profanity and transgender jokes so you will get them?
"I mean Romney is the most conservative on illegal immigration and I don't think Ronald Reagan could get elected in California today."
Ann "Clipped" Coulter
I'm out here and I realize what it will do enviromentally and I raise hell about it whenever the opportunity arrises.
Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.
Too bad the wildlife couldn't get the routes altered like rich landowners could. But then they don't know John Cornyn.
"I mean Romney is the most conservative on illegal immigration and I don't think Ronald Reagan could get elected in California today."
Ann "Clipped" Coulter
Dobbs is an asshole, but he's his own asshole. The CNN network is guilty of purveying mind numbing sensationalist claptrap in the sake of profit and I'll never watch it.
Fox News functions as a public relations arm of the RNC.
There is a difference.
They have been busy for the past few weeks spreading viscous lies about FDR and the New Deal. Before that, they spent years spreading bullshit lies that Global Warming was somehow a controversy among scientists. The fact that CNN does not recieve its funding from the GOP does nothing to alleviate its culpability as a spreader of bullshit propaghanda and corporate misinformation.
but this was a good shot by howie kurtz...
now, if he were to only hold his own reporting to the same standard he applies to others... then we'd be on to something.
and not to mention that the washpost and cnn are both absolutely sucky.
but a fly eating a pile of dog shit is preferable to a fly eating my sandwhich but its still a...
"I mean Romney is the most conservative on illegal immigration and I don't think Ronald Reagan could get elected in California today."
Ann "Clipped" Coulter
a fly with really bad breath?
Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.
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That's a pretty good impression of a fly there, Samson.
HaHA!!
Demanding that Fox "apologize" for whoring GOP propaganda they pushed today, yesterday and will continue tomorrow. Suck your own dick, Howie.
Howie longs to be liked above all else and he's at last gotten a fucking clue. The public love Obama and there's nothing that the Republican hacks who run the "Mainstream" media in general, and the punditocracy in particular, can do about it.
You should be apologizing for using partisan propaganda from the GOP without telling your viewers where it came from. Talk about missing the point.
Also "missing the talking point?," the cardinal sin of the stenographic SCUM (SoCalledUnbiasedMedia), of which Howie is a paid-up, full member...
THE LIST IS HUGE... WHY EVEN GO ON ABOUT IT... think of them as GOP COMEDY CENTRAL and leave it there.......... i tell my RIGHT WING friends... "bring me agruments about any topic from any reasonable news outlet and we can discuss---->> but FUX NEWS is off limits... anything they say has all the weight of a gnat"
Fox sees what they do as just doing their job, catapulting the propaganda.
Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.
since its inception, faux news, like limbaugh and hannity, have gotten talking points directly from the rnc and/or the white house
this was proven in outfoxed
hey howie...resign...you are a hack
... FOX should just go away
If you need funds to pay for essentials, you have a revenue problem
If you need funds to pay for frivolity, you have a spending problem
Nice to hear that Faux Noise was called out on being a bunch of lying idiots, but who did't know that already??
Howie's check must have come back NSF this week.
I thought that Howard Kurtz was some sort of right wing tool. At least that's what some deep thinkers around here have said.
To hear this comment from ANYBODY on a mainstream news channel (other than the Daily Show), is a good thing.
For years now, they've been legitimizing Fox News by either ignoring the obvious propaganda agenda or, worse, by trying to beat it at its own game.
For journalists to point out that there's a difference between reporting news and disseminating propaganda isn't just appropriate, it's their duty. To hold those in power to account. Truth to power.
... with a Keith Olberman jab (which Olberman promptly corrected correctly).
Kurtz was attempting to remain "fair and balanced." Even when he's right, he's a clueless tool.
somebody on CNN busting somebody on FOX for pushing Republican talking points!
Fox = RNC = Republican News Channel = Repugnican Noise Channel = etc. etc. etc.
...of "disrespecting the Bing," a Sopranos reference defined by Slate.com as:
"plead guilty to a lesser offense in order to dodge responsibility for a bigger one."
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